NY couple released on bail after keeping slaves

metavac · Post by **metavac** » 2007-05-30 06:39pm

Here's the link.

My Way News wrote:NY Millionaires Get Bail in Slavery Case
May 30, 1:47 PM (ET)
By FRANK ELTMAN

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves will be permitted to post $3.5 million bail under strict conditions that include home detention, telephone wiretaps and 24-hour surveillance, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Platt told attorneys to negotiate details of a bail agreement, including exactly how the security restrictions will work, by Friday.

"We're very, very pleased that the defendants are getting out," said Jeffrey Hoffman, a member of the defense team for Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 35, and her husband, Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51.

The Sabhnanis, who operate a worldwide perfume business out of their mansion in Muttontown on Long Island, were arrested May 13 after one of the Indonesian women was found wandering outside a nearby doughnut shop. She apparently had escaped the night before when she was putting out the trash, prosecutors said.

I used to work in that courthouse. Odd, I never met Judge Platt.

Invictus ChiKen · Post by **Invictus ChiKen** » 2007-05-30 06:48pm

Words fail me...

I know I shouldn't be suprised. Yet I still am...

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2007-05-30 07:30pm

What's a typical sentence for slave holding? These people sound like they deserve to be smashing rocks for a very long time.

Schuyler Colfax · Post by **Schuyler Colfax** » 2007-05-30 08:18pm

I'm astonished that you could buy your way out something like that.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2007-05-30 08:28pm

Bail doesn't mean that you've bought your way out of a crime - it means that the accused don't have to wait in jail before and during trial.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2007-05-30 08:30pm

Elite Pwnage wrote:I'm astonished that you could buy your way out something like that.

Since when has justice really applied to the wealthy in America? This just proves if you are rich enough, you need never see prison.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-05-30 08:31pm

phongn wrote:Bail doesn't mean that you've bought your way out of a crime - it means that the accused don't have to wait in jail before and during trial.

If he had read the article, he would've known that.

Schuyler Colfax · Post by **Schuyler Colfax** » 2007-05-30 08:46pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:
phongn wrote:Bail doesn't mean that you've bought your way out of a crime - it means that the accused don't have to wait in jail before and during trial.
If he had read the article, he would've known that.

I did read the article I just had a little lapse in judgement. (nothing new from me)