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Let me tell you the story of COVID, a man who conducted surveillance on Mujahedin-e-Khalq members in America for Iran, and bureaucratic snafu that led to a DOJ change of heart with a sentencing reduction and release
Let me tell you the story of COVID, a man who conducted surveillance on Mujahedin-e-Khalq members in America for Iran, and bureaucratic snafu that led to a DOJ change of heart with a sentencing reduction and release
To understand the case, you should first read this DOJ press release when two men, Ahadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani were sentenced. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-individuals-sentenced-connection-work-behalf-iran
This thread focuses on one of the men, Majid Ghorbani. Here how DOJ describes the actions that led to his guilty plea.
Ghorbani has applied for high intensity supervision release long before covid but DOJ opposes that request. Then in late March, his lawyer filed a motion. Concerned about his health and age, and the number of covid cases in DC jail (where Ghorbani was housed) asked to be released
DOJ agreed that Ghorbani should be home released. They disagreed on one point, “the government does not agree that his sentence should be reduced”
