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Pilgrim Is Not Produced By FCI Mendota So
6 Week Trip to SDNY Diesel Therapy
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 8 – James Pilgrim is up
for a guilty plea and
re-sentencing in a Federal
drugs and guns case. But in
the Federal Bureau of Prisons
system he could not be found,
then was not produced by FCI
Mendota in California.
Now he will be
transferred to New York - but
it will take four to six
weeks, the government says.
Some call this
diesel therapy, or a
scam.
On
November 8 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Alison J.
Nathan held a telephone
proceeding. Inner City Press
called in to report on
it.
Assistant
US Attorney Allison Nichols
said she had been able to get
a response from FCI Mendota.
In a
letter, she had told Judge
Nathan that "the Government
has been endeavoring to
coordinate over the last
several months and each time,
Mr. Pilgrim has been moved by
BOP without prior notice and
before the plea proceeding
could take place."
On November
9, AUSA Nichols said it would
take four to six week to
transfer Pilgrim to New York,
to be followed by two weeks'
quarantine. His lawyer asked
that, in light of Thanksgiving
and the New Year, it be on
January 18.
(In the interim
Judge Nathan will preside over
the US v. Ghislaine Maxwell
trial, apparently without a
listen-only call-in phone
line, which Inner City Press
on October 29 in writing
requested, still not docketed.
One or more family members' of
Mr. Pilgram were on the phone
on November 8; one assumes
there will be a call in line
next year, if not in Maxwell,
in this case).
This case is US
v. Burrell, et al., 15-cr-95
(Nathan)
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