Dan Sohail Gets Time Served Plus 7 Days for Ramming Brooklyn Synagogue, Ordered to Pay $19,000
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 30
Dan Sohail Gets Time Served Plus 7 Days for Ramming Brooklyn Synagogue, Ordered to Pay $19,000
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 30
Summary
Six months already served plus seven days was the sentence imposed on Dan Sohail, 36, for repeatedly driving into Brooklyn’s Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters on Jan. 28; no one was injured.
More than $19,000 in restitution and mandatory mental health treatment were added after Sohail pleaded guilty in May to damaging religious property.
Federal prosecutors had sought 14 months, arguing the attack hit a prominent Jewish institution as anti-Jewish crimes were rising in New York City.
Judge Eric Vitaliano rejected a harsher term, stressing the case before him was a property crime, not a hate-crime prosecution; state hate-crime charges had been dropped earlier.
Defense lawyers said Sohail, who had been exploring conversion to Judaism, was suffering from PTSD and a personality disorder and framed the crash as a misguided cry for help.