| Bar Works Fraudster Moore
Gets 140 Months Recommendation for FCI Miami
For Real Estate
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 1 – James Moore has
been incarcerated for his role
in defrauding investors in
"Bar Works [which] purported
to be a company that adapted
former restaurant, bar
premises and other locations
into co-working spaced with
'workspaces' for rent to the
public in exchange for a
membership fee."
By
February 2020, Moore's lawyer
Michael Grudberg was telling
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman that
he had reached out to Moore on
CorrLinks to get a waiver of
appearance.
Judge
Berman asked, "What is
CorrLinks?"
Grudberg replied that "it is
not a privileged email system
for purposes of counsel, but
it's a relatively 24-hour
communications system."
Inner City
Press can attest to this,
receiving CorrLinks emails
about the worsening conditions
in the prisons at all
hours.
Judge
Berman said, "CorrLinks, first
I'm hearing it, actually...
Long time, years?
Grudberg replied,
I would say about a decade,
your Honor.. I use it as a
stopgap.
On
April 16, 2020 there was news
of the transfer of Moore to
FMC Butner.
Jump cut to
February 1, 2022, when Moore
came up for sentencing before
Judge Berman. Inner City Press
once again covered it. Moore
and his counsel argued that he
was less guilty than others.
And, on a guideline of 262 to
327 months, Judge Berman
sentenced Moore to 140 months,
which will be minus the four
years he's already served.
Moore's lawyer asked for a
recommendation to FCI Miami,
saying Moore's wife has real
estate in Miami.
Recommendation made.
Then this: "U.S.
Attorney Damian Williams said:
“James Moore partnered with
notorious fraudster Renwick
Haddow to design a massive
Ponzi scheme that lured
hundreds of unsuspecting
investors from around the
world, and from which Moore
and affiliated companies
siphoned 65 percent of each of
their recruited victims’
investments. Moore then
obstructed justice and lied
about the scheme to federal
agents. Today’s lengthy
sentence sends a clear message
that perpetrators of
investment fraud will be
prosecuted and held
accountable.”
This case is US
v. Moore, 18-cr-759
(Berman).
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