Just yesterday, we reported that Howard J. Vogel, the former client of Milberg LLP who accepted kickbacks as an inducement to act as a plaintiff, would enter prison this week,
But Vogel, who is set to serve a three month sentence, has received an extension of his surrender date, to January 28th.
Vogel originally received a delay from November 19th, due to some mysterious “medical procedures.”
This time, Vogel asserts that the Federal Bureau of Prisons wrongfully designated him as an inmate requiring a low-security level prison, rather than a camp facility, due to a dismissed allegation of domestic violence in 2005.
The motion said that “should Mr. Vogel be sent to a low-security prison facility, he will suffer a punishment worse than that visited on the lawyers from Milberg Weiss, the principal wrongdoers in this case, who have been placed in camps.”
Pushing back his surrender date gives him time to clear up the “misunderstanding.” US District Judge John F. Walter granted the extension, and recommended Vogel be placed in a camp facility.
Allowing white collar defendants to choose their own time to turn themselves in, as well as the country club “camp” which they will be incarcerated, will no doubt help to prevent the kind of irresponsibility and malfeasance that led to the current economic meltdown. Good work, Judge Walter! See ya at The Club!
Posted by Erik Even
on January 15, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Legal News.
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Anonymous
June 30, 2009 at 8:25 am
Nice work Judge Walter. Another stain on the robe……