Felon Pled Guilty to Keeping Watch at 100 Centre Street Screening Gets 3 Weeks Prison

Felon Pled Guilty to Keeping Watch at 100 Centre Street Screening Gets 3 Weeks Prison by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 17 – A man sentenced in 2021 to 66 months in prison in a drug case was back on June 12, 2026 on a violatios of supervised release. US District Court for the Southern District of New York Senior Judge Jed S. Rakoff presided. Inner City Press covered it.    The defendant amiably described going through security at 100 Centre Street on the way to a state court proceeding when he found a watch - not his - in the plastic box. His lawyer added that the box had not passed through the "rubber boundary."   Judge Rakoff asked if this met the NYS definition of intent. The AUSA said yes, the the plea was accepted. Rather than ten minutes for sentencing, it was set for the next week (Judge Rakoff noted he will be sitting by designation on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, June 17). It emerged that defense counsel Kellman had played a role in drafting, for then NYS Speaker Stanley Fink, the bill to allow Federal judges to preside at marriages in New York State. The next week, he was sentenced to three weeks in prison beginning Bastille Day: "On specifications 2 and 3 : Three weeks jail, concurrent on both specifications, voluntary surrender 7/14/2026 before 2:00pm to the Marshal for the SDNY, 1 year supervised release, all terms on both specifications to run concurrent to each other."  The overall case is USA v. Cotto, et al., 1:18-cr-413 (Rakoff) *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station, NY NY 10013 Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.  Copyright 2006-2026 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com