| Doctor
Cruciani For Sexual Abuse Got $2M Release
Wants Info Sealed As Inner City Press
Opposes
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 18 – A former pain
management doctor who has been
indicted for sexually abusing
female patients in three
states for fifteen years was
offered bail conditions to be
released on the evening of
October 20, 2021. Inner City
Press was there, and again on
October 21 when he was
arraigned in a yellow prison
jumpsuit.
Mid-day it was
announced that "Damian
Williams, the United States
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York,
announced that RICARDO
CRUCIANI was arrested this
morning and charged in
connection with his sexual
abuse of numerous pain
management patients over the
course of over 15 years.
The Indictment unsealed today
alleges that from at least in
or about 2002 up to and
including at least in or about
2017, CRUCIANI enticed and
induced multiple victims to
travel to his medical offices
in New York, New York,
Hopewell, New Jersey, and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
subject them to unlawful
sexual abuse. CRUCIANI
was arrested this morning and
is expected to be presented
later today before U.S.
Magistrate Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger in Manhattan
federal court."
After a
case in which Magistrate Judge
Lehrburger granted the US
Attorney's Office's request to
detain in the MDC jail in
Brooklyn until trial an
asthmatic man from Burkina
Faso, employed in food
delivery, for enticing two
14-year old girls to have sex,
Cruciani was brought
in.
Cruciani wore a
sweater and blew a kiss to a
woman in the gallery, where
Inner City Press was the only
media.
The Assistant US
Attorney said that with
Cruciani's retained
(self-paid) lawyer a bail
package had been agreed to: a
$2 million personal
recognisance bond signed by
three financially responsible
people and secured by
properties in Winwood,
Pennsylvania and Jersey City,
New Jersey. Cruciani worked at
Mount Sinai. There is a
petition online here.
On October
21 the assigned District
Judge, John P. Cronan, held
Cruciani's arraignment. Inner
City Press live tweeted it here.
On the afternoon
of January 10, this: "ORDER as
to Ricardo Cruciani. As
ordered by the Court on
December 2, 2021, Dkt. 20,
Defendant submitted his
financial affidavit to the
Court on January 6, 2022.
Defendant's financial
affidavit was accompanied by a
cover letter in which
Defendant requested that he be
permitted to file both his
affidavit and the cover letter
under seal and ex parte."
In less than an
hour, Inner City Press filed
opposition to sealing, cc-ing
Cruciani's lawyers and
specifically noting upon Inner
City Press' application,
Michael Avenatti's financial
affidavit was nearly entirely
released, revealed links to
PPP loans.
But on
January 18 when Cruciani's
lawyers put in another
argument to keep his info
sealed, while they cited the
Avenatti decision they did not
mention much less address the
argument by Inner City Press,
whose filing was docketed and
granted in the Avenatti case.
The issue of public access to
an indict sex abusers filings
is not only between the
alleged abuser and the US
Attorney's office - the public
and press should be heard (and
docketed). What will
happen here, with Judge
Cronan? Watch this site.
Inner City
Press will stay on these case.
The disparity with the
Burkinabe food deliveryman was
not explained. (To be fair,
the SDNY is generally open,
see for example orders by
Judges Jed S. Rakoff here
and Jesse M. Furman on
Avenatti, here).
This case is US
v. Cruciani, 21-cr-636
(Cronan)
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