| Man For Assaulting Jews at
NYC Protests Got 18 Month Plea
Deal Judge Imposes 17 Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
MAG
COURT EXCLUSIVE,
Oct 28 – A young man
charged with assault, the
Assistant US Attorney said on
Jews, was ordered free on
$150,000 bond on May 7 in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court. Inner City
Press was the only media there
in the Mag Court for the first
appearance and live tweeted
Letter was
due Friday at noon.
On May 21 Judge
Richard M. Berman ordered him
detained, noting that "the
total cash recovered from the
Defendant is $750,062.06" and
he traveled to the West Bank
and Jordan for three weeks in
September and October 2024.
On June 11 Inner
City Press was in the
courtroom when Bazrouk pleaded
guilty; the plea deal
estimates his sentencing
guideline at 12 to 18 months.
On October 14
defense counsel asked for a
sentence of six months
imprisonment - already served,
so time served? It is not
phrased that way in the
memo, but it does say it
"mitigates against an
additional term of
imprisonment."
Late on October
21- actually, early October 22
- the US Attorney's Office
wrote in asking for "at least
36 month" - three years.
Late on October
27 the Federal Defender wrote
in to say that would be too
much, citing cases such as the
Pryor Cashman lawyer who threw
a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD
vehicle and got a year and a
day. There are NYS cases in
100 Centre Street that Inner
City Press is covering that
they might have cited...
On October 28,
with its SDNY books being
banned by Amazon, Inner City
Press live tweeted the
sentencing from 11 am to past
1:30 pm, culminating with
Judge Berman saying he intends
to sentence Bazrouk to 17
months.
More detail on X
for Subscribers here and
Substack here
The case is USA
v. Bazrouk, 1:25-cr-203
(Berman)
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