Extortionist Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany Is Free – Sort Of

Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany, Sholom Rubashkin's brother-in-law who tried to extort $4 million from Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors LP, was released from prison to a community-based corrections program on Sukkot. He was sentenced to four years in prison on February 18, 2011 and taken into custody immediately and should still be in prison – but he isn't.

Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany

Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany, Sholom Rubashkin's brother-in-law who tried to extort $4 million from Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors LP, was released from prison to a community-based corrections program on Sukkot. He was sentenced to four years in prison on February 18, 2011 and taken into custody immediately and should still be in prison – but he isn't.

Instead, Balkany was released to a community-based corrections program during Sukkot, and a big welcome home party was held for Balkany in his Brooklyn sukkah.

Last year, Balkany lost his appeal. Then in December he filed a 2255 motion to vacate his sentence – the same appeal his brother-in-law filed earlier this week.

Here is the Bureau of Prisons Balkany page followed by the government's response to Balkany's 2225 motion as a PDF file and Balkany's response to that as a PDF file, which was filed in March 2013.

No ruling on that appeal (which on a quick reading seems to be very weak) has yet been filed as of today.

Please click to enlarge:

Download Government response to Milton Balkany Habeus Petition 2-2013

Download Milton Balkany reply to Government 3-2013

Related Post: Balkany Guilty.

All Rabbi Milton Yehoshua Balkany Posts.

[Hat Tip: Burich.]

Comments

[dh]

What a crock of crap. Community based corrections. This we're paying for, but we can't go to the National Zoo.

[Account Deleted]

4 years in prison? He got off pretty easy. And he dares to make these legal moves? What a lettuce face!

[!]

My reading comprehension skills are lacking tonight:

1.Is it unusual that there would be no ruling more than six months later?

2. Is there any connection between the delayed ruling and his release to community service?

3. Is there really a rule that if you can find someone who tried to get into the room at voire dire and couldn't the whole subsequent case may be in jeopardy? Are these kinds of cases brought often?

Thanks in advance