| Basketball Standout Ashanae
McLaughlin Released on Bank Fraud Charges
Without SDNY Exclusion Zone
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 3 – Bronxite Ashanae
McLaughlin was the New York
Daily News female high school
basketball player
of the year in 2014. She
is or was set for a full
scholarship to Seton
Hall.
Then she
was named in a federal
racketeering indictment, and
counts of bank fraud and
aggravated identity
theft.
On February
3 McLaughlin was brought in by
US Marshals before US District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Sarah
Netburn.
In the
gallery along with Inner City
Press as the only media was
McLaughlin's mother, to whom
Judge Netburn spoke during the
proceeding.
Assistant US Attorney Justin
Rodriguez asked that the
Soundview area of The Bronx be
declared an "exclusion zone"
as a condition of McLaughlin
being released. But her mother
and grandmother live there.
Judge Netburn
declined to impose the
condition, but asked the
mother to try to arrange to
meet her daughter outside of
the area.
Judge
Netburn told McLaughlin she
might be eligible for the SDNY
Young Adult Opportunity
Program she co-runs with
District Judge Ronnie Abrams,
and that Inner City Press has
previously covered, here.
Judge
Netburn added that the program
does not work with anyone
accused of a violent crime.
The 11-defendant indictment
McLaughlin was included in
does include violence, though
she is charged only with bank
fraud, ID theft and
racketeering. Can YAOP handle
racketeering? Will Seton Hall
help? The case is US v.
McLaughlin, 20-cr-78 (Torres /
Netburn).
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