Goettsche and Weeks attempted (surprise surprise) to use COVID as a reason for being released from prison, and were both denied.
There's apparently a policy in the U.S. at the moment to release "petty" offenders because of the virus.
Weeks continues to pretend that's all he was
None of the articles cited by Weeks regarding efforts to reduce prison populations deal with inmates like Weeks, who have already been found to be a flight risk (twice) and who are charged with very serious offenses carrying significant guidelines ranges.
and throws in a pre existing asthma condition for good measure.
Didn't work.
Weeks did not report this condition during his medical intake at ECCF, or on a health form he submitted for a mountain climbing trip to Antarctica.
His asthma did not prevent Weeks from traveling all over the world, including to remote locations that presumably lacked standard respiratory treatment, and engaging in strenuous activities at altitude like heli-skiing and mountain climbing.
The point is not that Weeks does not have asthma.
Rather, it is that he did not report suffering from asthma or have a prescription for asthma treatment until COVID-19 surfaced.
Goettsche's application was simply that the reduction in scheduled airline activity made him less of a flight risk.
The DoJ pointed out that he has huge amounts of unaccounted for money that he stole from Bitclub investors and an involved brother who is still out there.
Judge Hammer found it
... concerning, for example, that Goettsche referred to having made “hundreds of mil[lions] in the past two years,” id., and that his accounts are “scattered throughout the world and very possibly beyond the reach of the Government to seize.”
Implicit in that holding is Judge Hammer’s valid concern that Goettsche would use his “vast sums of money,” to leave the country rather than have a jury consider an array of evidence that includes his own “inculpatory” statements.
Despite the Government’s requests, Goettsche still has not filled the roughly $30 million gap between his self-disclosed assets and an accounting prepared by his accountant in August 2019.
Jo Abel doesn't seem to have bothered to ask for release, Silviu Balaci is still in jail in Frankfurt awaiting U.S. extradition and Russ Medlin is still out there, no doubt indulging the tastes for which he was placed on the Nevada Sex Offenders register, and protected from arrest by liberal dispersion of bribes and payoffs.
Other B list BitClub promoters who made $$$$ thru the MLM system appear to be of no interest to law enforcement.
Thanks for case update summary, OZ. Also below.
Fat Lawyer One Coin Scammer Mark Scott was more successful in a similar hearing, being released to one of the homes he bought with stolen money.
His bullshit health worries appeared to have convinced the judge that he's not a flight risk despite holding dual citizenship with a country which doesn't extradite to the U.S. (Germany).
He has provided limited support for his claim that his health condition renders him especially vulnerable to COVID-19.
Specifically, Scott relies on a vague one-page doctor’s letter stating that Scott “has hypertension and was in the process of ongoing a cardiac workup.
He was only in prison because he broke the terms of his previous bail, by going out on the town with his bodyguards.
His buying and selling of Porsches and property doesn't seem to be considered unusual.
While released on bail, in or about July 2019, Scott sold a 2016 Porsche (the “2016 Porsche”) for $250,000.
Scott did so with full knowledge that he had purchased the 2016 Porsche with OneCoin victim money and that the 2016 Porsche was subject to both a seizure warrant— which was produced to the defendant in discovery in October 2018—and a Forfeiture Bill of Particulars (the “Forfeiture BOP”) —which was filed with the Court and served on the defendant in February 2019.
While released on bail Scott also used $300,000 in OneCoin victim proceeds that were subject to a restraining order to pay for renovations to his (Massachusetts) property.
Furthermore, Scott mortgaged the (Massachusetts) Property—which he had also purchased with OneCoin proceeds, and which was also subject to the Forfeiture BOP—to a creditor, specifically, a contracting business performing work on the (Massachusetts) Property.
He is the walking embodiment of a fat, disgusting cunt. (apologies to my overweight friends)
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