| Man
Charged With Million Dollar Wire Fraud Got
Free Lawyer and No Jail Memo Undocketed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY MAG COURT
SCOOP, Dec 10 - In the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on August 9, a presentment
proceeding was held by
Magistrate Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger on a defendant,
Lawrence Elting, charged with
wire fraud, "deceiving an
investor into investing
millions of dollars in a
putative financial
transaction" with his company,
"Trombetta Group" which had a
JPM Chase account.
Elting was
given a public-funded lawyer
based on a CJA-23 affidavit
that remains sealed. His
Federal Defender agreed to or
obtained released on a $75,000
bond, with the ability to move
to Florida.
Elting was
to be released the same day;
when he would travel to
Florida was not said on the
record.
On June 17,
2024 he pled guilty to
misdemeanor bank larceny. On
November 25 his Federal
Defender wrote in asking Judge
Cave for "time served" - no
jail time, on December 10.
Inner City Press
went to the sentencing on
December 10, even though the
US Attorney's Office
sentencing memo was not in the
public docket. There, while
the defendant spoke movingly,
it remained unclear why some
get prison time for frauds far
smaller than this, but in this
case the sentence was no
prison, three years probation.
The forfeiture was stated at
$999, apparently to keep it a
misdemeanor. Again, the
defendant was compelling - but
transparency, at least in the
docket, lacking.
The case is USA
v. Elting, 1:24-cr-389 (Cave)
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