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Hours before Jen Shah
Sentenced Cooperator
Quiles Resentenced
With Court Sealing
Denied
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Order Vlog
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 4 – Five defendants
in a telemarketing scheme were
presented past 8 pm on
November 20, 2019 in the
Magistrates Court of the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
On April 2,
2021 Jen Shah of Real
Housewives Of Salt Lake City
was arraigned in the same case
- and a $1 million bond, with
$250,000 of it secured by case
or property, required. Inner
City Press live tweeted it.
On
December 16,
2022 Shah's
lawyer in a
heavily
redacted
submission
asked for 36
months, far
below the plea
deal. Exhibit
list
along
with redacted
statement by
Jen
Shah
on Patreon here.
Inner City
Press emailed
opposition
to the
redactions, to
Shah's lawyer
(no response)
and elsewhere - then
filed it.
On January 4,
Judge Stein
ruled: "ORDER
as to Jennifer
Shah. IT IS
HEREBY ORDERED
that defendant
Shah is
directed to
respond to the
application of
Inner City
Press [Doc.
No. 648] to
unseal certain
portions of
Shah's
sentencing
memorandum and
an exhibit to
the
government's
sentencing
memorandum in
writing on or
before 12:00
p.m. on
January 5,
2023.
(Defendant
Responses due
by 1/5/2023)
(Signed by
Judge Sidney
H. Stein on
1/4/2023)."
On
January 4
at 3 pm Inner
City Press
went to cover
the re-sentencing
of
Raymond
Quiles,
described as a
cooperator
against Jen
Shah and
others, under
a different docket
number.
Quiles' lawyer, after
conferring
with the
Assistant US Attorney,
asked Judge
Stein to seal
the courtroom.
Inner City
Press said
that it
opposed the
request. After
standing in
the hall while
arguments were
presented - it
is not clear if the
US Attorney's
Office
joined in the
request - Inner
City Press was
invited by in, and
stayed.
It was a
proceeding
under Rule 35(b)(2)(b)
of the FRCrP,
for
cooperation
after
sentencing.
The initial sentence,
in 2019, for
was a year and
a day. But it
was put off.
Now Quiles
returned,
seeking no
jail time. He
cited
family issues,
remorse,
and
willingness to
testify
against Jen
Shah.
While
Probation
suggested
three months
in prison,
Judge Stein
gave weight
and mercy to
the family situation
- an autistic
son - and
imposed six
months of
home
confinement,
the start of
two years of
supervised
release, and
160 hours a
year of
community service,
which Judge
Stein
suggested
should be to
help prevent
fraud.
At
the end,
Judge Stein
said he didn't
seen
incarceration
as needed for
Quiles,
that "general
deterrence
looms larger
in the cases
of those with
larger public
profiles."
Jen Shah is set to
be sentenced
on January 6.
This case
is USA v.
Ketabchi et
al, 17-cr-243
(Stein).
***
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