| Man Jailed
in SDNY For Threat To Dominican President
Now In VOSR Time Served Proposed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 8 – Amid UN General
Assembly week in New York City
in September 2021, Enrique
Figueroa was arrested and
charged with threats to kill
the President of the Dominican
Republic, as the president of
Haiti had been killed.
He was presented,
and ordered detained by U.S.
Magistrate Judge James L. Cott
in the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York. Inner City Press, which
covers the UN including UN
peacekeepers bringing cholera
to Haiti, live tweeted it
below.
On May 10, 2022
before the assigned District
Judge Paul G. Gardephe,
Figueroa's request to fire his
Federal Defender was granted.
The basis? That she had
consented to waivers of Speedy
Trial Act time ostensibly
without Figueroa's consent or
permission. Letter here.
An earlier
letter referred to "opposing
political and societal views."
Judge Gardephe granted
Figueroa's request for a new
counsel, while telling him
that he will have to take
whatever Criminal Justice Act
lawyer is on duty.
Jump cut to
August 19, 2025, when Figueroa
came before Judge Gardephe on
a violation of supervised
release. His CJA lawyer said
that his state cases are set
for ATI - alternative to
incarceration - with a date of
September 10.
The
charges include assault of a
person over 65 years old,
forcible touching and grand
larceny, all in "Tap A" of 100
Centre Street (to which Inner
City Press coverage has
expanded).
In SDNY, Judge
Gardephe put the Federal VOSR
over.
On January 8,
2026 defense counsel wrote in
about the guilty plea to three
state charges, with sentencing
set for March 4; "the parties
jointly propose.. time served
and termination of supervised
release."
The case is USA
v. Figueroa, 1:21-cr-708
(Gardephe).
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