By Matthew Russell Lee, Periscope video
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 17 – A pimp was sentenced to 30 years in prison and a later condition to not have contact with those he pimped out including apparently mothers of his nine children.
His own elderly mother sobbed as U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Chief Judge Colleen McMahon imposed the sentence, then criticized the Assistant U.S. Attorneys on the case for not having brought to court a copy of the plea agreement including waiver of rights to appeal. Judge McMahon asked the defendant Grevy Gerard Pierre-Louis a/k/a Caddy if he remembered signing the letter.
He replied that his then lawyer Mr Branson had only shown it to him five minutes before his plea. Judge McMahon read out loud from the transcript of his allocation and said she will stand behind it. Offered the precedent of a lighter sentence by EDNY Judge Weinstein, she said he is a fine person and judge but she would not have limited that case to 15 years.
During the proceeding including while AUSA Amanda Kramer ran back past the MCC to get a copy of the plea agreement, some the defendant's family members audibly sobbed, and Judge McMahon asked them to be quiet. They need to hear what he did, she said.
Four victim impact statements were read out loud, about beatings and rapes, a women made to eat out of a dog bowl, another left freezing outside. When it was his turn the defender said that he too had been abuse as a child in Haiti, and that now at 47 he is changing his ways. Photos of him and two sons from his Instagram account were offered.
Judge McMahon said, I'm not impressed, I'm not buying it. She admonished his family members against trying to intimidate anyone. Afterward some non-family members made their descent from the 24th floor in the freight elevator. Periscope video afterward here.
