Dates set for Corrine Brown hearings

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Federal justice Timothy Corrigan has acceptable respective dates successful the Corrine Brown case.

The erstwhile congresswoman’s 2017 condemnation connected fraud and taxation charges was overturned successful May. Federal prosecutors said during a proceeding Monday that they volition enactment Brown connected proceedings again connected the aforesaid 18 felony counts involving an alleged foundation scheme.

While prosecutors said Monday that they would beryllium acceptable for proceedings arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent month, Brown’s defence counsel asked for clip to obtain a caller ineligible team.

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News4Jax besides learned during Monday’s proceeding that prosecutors offered Brown a plea statement to debar being retried and perchance returning to prison. Brown rejected it. She wants her sanction cleared. She is besides trying to get backmost $42,000 she already paid successful restitution earlier her archetypal condemnation was thrown out.

During the hearing, the deadline for Brown’s question related to the instrumentality of the forfeiture/restitution wealth was acceptable for Friday.

On Tuesday, Corrigan issued an bid mounting immoderate dates successful the case.

Brown’s adjacent proceeding connected the presumption of counsel is Oct. 29 astatine 10:30 a.m. successful beforehand of Magistrate Judge James Klindt.

The plea deadline is Jan. 7.

There’s a presumption league Jan. 2 astatine 2 p.m. earlier Corrigan.

The proceedings is acceptable for the February proceedings term, which begins Feb. 7. That doesn’t needfully mean the proceedings volition commencement that day, but it volition commencement astatine immoderate constituent successful February. The proceedings volition beryllium with Corrigan.

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