Latorella's sentencing is scheduled for June 14th. No sentencing memoranda filed yet, but there is a letter from his older brother Henry, the SUNY professor who used to run the Metrigenics thing, asking the judge for clemency for JL.
There's no point in picking holes in Henry's representation of the circumstances - you expect a brother to have a favorable viewpoint.
It does support one thing I've always thought about pennyscammers - ie that they are usually addicted to alcohol, drugs and/or gambling. Henry thinks JL has the first two (based on the sheer volume of cash he burned away, I think he's probably got the third also). It'll be interesting to see what the sentencing memo's have to say on the point, assuming the court doesn't seal the damn things.
JL has eight kids from a bunch of different partners, apparently (very tough for them). His first wife left him due to a "gender preference reconsideration".
Whatever, I think he's lucky to be looking at 5 years max.
In the meantime, JF's attorney still keeps up the fight; no ruling yet on his last motion to get the court to more-or-less enforce an agt where the DoJ's bid will be capped at 5 yrs in the slammer and he will be able to argue for zero. I really can't see that working but you never know ...
