Judge Orders Carmine Agnello to Prison for 15 Months After Kidney Transplant Misses August 10 Deadline
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 12
Judge Orders Carmine Agnello to Prison for 15 Months After Kidney Transplant Misses August 10 Deadline
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 12
Summary
Agnello was ordered to surrender by 4 p.m. after the kidney transplant he hoped to give Victoria Gotti was not completed by an August 3 deadline and could not be scheduled by August 10.
Judge Nusrat Choudhury had delayed his original July 20 prison date by two months, but said there was no concrete evidence any transplant would occur before the Sept. 18 backup surrender date.
Court filings said Victoria Gotti's recurrent infections forced the surgery's cancellation; Agnello's lawyer argued prison would effectively disqualify him as her living donor, while prosecutors said the transplant was not imminent.
The 15-month sentence stems from Agnello's September 2024 guilty plea in a $1.1 million COVID-19 fraud scheme involving false loan applications and roughly $420,000 diverted into cryptocurrency.