| Man Who Was
Present for Torture But Did Not
Participate Got 46 Months Now a
Co-D Too
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
May 29 – A man who
participated in the kidnapping
of a man from his music studio
in The Bronx, then torture in
an apartment in Hartford, was
up for sentencing on January
30, 2024. Inner City Press was
there.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had
already sentenced others in
the case deemed more
responsible to 210 months, 180
months, and 144 months for a
diabetic.
But Tuesday's defendant made
no money from the kidnapping
and underlying drug
transaction. Instead, he was
merely "weak," as defense
counsel Sabrina Shroff and
then Judge Kaplan put
it.
With five family members in
the gallery, where Inner City
Press was the only media,
Judge Kaplan said "I don't
take pleasure in sending
people to jail," before going
below the 60 month guideline
down to the 46 months
requested.
On May 29,
co-defendant Amaury Ruiz
Martinez was sentenced to 46
months as well, "defendant
remains detained."
The case is
US v. Perez, 22-cr-351
(Kaplan)
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