Reduced Sentence For Racketeering Conspiracy

Our client, an organized crime associate from New Jersey, was first charged in Ft. Lauderdale with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and several other offenses. Our client pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 151 months. Following his sentencing, our client retained our firm to assist him in obtaining a sentence reduction pursuant to Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida was not interested in our client's cooperation. As a result, and after evaluating our client's information, we decided to offer his cooperation to the organized crime task force in the Southern District of New York. As part of his cooperation, our client confessed to his participation in a contract killing of an organized crime figure that had been ordered by a Capo of the Genovese crime family. Our client also agreed to waive the RICO statute of limitations applicable to his conduct, pleaded guilty, and his sentencing was deferred. In the interim, the government agreed to file a motion to reduce our client's sentence in his Florida case pursuant to Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Our client's sentence was reduced by approximately 65% to what amounted to time-served. Our client was then sentenced in his New York case. Although the low-end of our client's guideline range was determined to be 324 months, as a result of our efforts, he was sentenced to 37 months; a sentence that also amounted to time-served. Our client walked out of the courtroom.