| In Stolen Car Sales
Conspiracy Case on Named Defendant
US Asked 57 Months He Gets 18
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 13 – Based on arrests for
a conspiracy to sell stolen
vehicles, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Magistrate Judge Gary
Stein on August 1 held a
series of presentments,
detaining one. Inner City
Press was there, the only
media in the SDNY courtroom.
Jeffery Montgomery had been
arrested at 4:45 in the
morning - meaning, picked up
from custody. He consented to
detention. By contrast, the
SDNY prosecutors offered
$50,000 bond bail to another
defendant, while opposing
release for another with, they
said, a history of leading
NYPD on car
chases.
Judge Stein
did not find grounds for
detention, instead imposing
the same $50,000 unsecured
bond and saying that a Port
Chester warrant should be
dealt with.
On August 6,
co-defendant Eric Santana was
before the week's Magistrate
Judge, Jennifer E. Willis. She
noted that he had appeared for
court dates in the past, and
ordered him released on
$50,000 bond.
On August 13, the
case was indicted and wheeled
out to Chief Judge Laura
Taylor Swain.
On October 14
counsel to co-defendant
Boulaoute wrote in asking for
time served.
On November 10
the US Attorney's Office wrote
in asking for 12 months on
November 17. The US Attorney's
Office attached a victim
impact statement asking for
$17,500 in restitution for a
2021 Honda.
He got three
months.
On January 28 the
lead named defendant wrote in
asking for time served.
On February 4 the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for 57 month.
On February 11,
he got 18 months, "net of the
time the Defendant spent in
custody on the related NJ
conviction."
The case is USA
v. Montgomery, et al.,
1:24-cr-479 (Swain)
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