Sam Morris
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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The Trial: USA · He Was So Interesting To The Hilfigers, The Trumps, The Winfreys · 1 May 2025
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The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world.
We work with defendants, their families, attorneys that are going through the federal criminal system. Overwhelmingly, the majority of our clients, probably 98%, are white-collar offenders.
offenders that commit financial crimes, nonviolent crimes, those that are typically professionals, politicians that run afoul of various federal statutes and find themselves in the clutches of the Department of Justice.
In 2016, I received a knock on my door. 17 men and women dressed in blue flak jackets with FBI stencil on the back arrested me. I had no idea why. I had been retired for a In the car ride up, I learned that I was being charged with a wire fraud from a prior company I was involved with. 2018, I went to sentencing.
I was assured by my attorney that I was getting one year of home confinement and then some supervised release. The judges looked down at me and said, Mr. Mangle, you are no different than any vagrant on the street. You are actually worse. You clearly show no contrition, no remorse. You haven't identified with your victims. And therefore, I'm giving you a sentence of custody of 60 months.
Now, I've never been in trouble in my life. And I thought he said six months. I looked down at my attorney, who scribbled 60 on a piece of paper. And the only thing that would go through my mind, other than I was going to get sick on the table in front of me, was I was going to be away from my family for four years and two months, 85% of your sentence.
The judge then remanded me to custody, highly unusual for white-collar offenders. And I began my sentence in the Philadelphia Detention Center. Almost a sister image of the Brooklyn Detention Center. I spent six weeks there and it was certainly quite scary in the beginning. It was someplace that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies.
After about six weeks, I had been transferred to the camp in Miami. I was out in 21 months. So I learned how to work within the system and navigate a system which really is not meant to be navigated. The other thing I learned is that there were people there that had advice from other people than their attorney prior to sentencing that got much better sentences and much better outcomes.
And I learned that there was a whole field of people called prison consultants.
Not only did I learn what it was like to be in a camp where I was in Miami, that's when I learned that, you know, There are things that can be done that no one could advise me of, did advise me of, that can help me get home sooner.
Now, I tell my clients and prospective clients that if we work together and you follow the protocol and the rules and do what's necessary, on average, my clients spend about 30% of their sentence in custody. I learned that proper preparation prior to sentencing knowing the environment you're going into.
And once you're there, knowing what programs to take, how to qualify for them, and ultimately how to prepare for your release, knowing that you're dealing with a system that has a rule book. And it's the same rule book that I had to follow that El Chapo who's in AdMax has to follow. It's one book for everyone.
And it's not the Bureau of Prisons culture or job to help me or rehabilitate me to get out sooner. It's there to house me and feed me three meals a day. And if I wasn't proactive and doing what I had to do, they were more than happy to let me sleep there for four years and two months.
Actually, I do a lot of work with attorneys, but people that are just charged well before the plea or if they go to trial, most people do accept the plea.
Ideally from the very beginning. I occasionally, not often, thank God, receive phone calls the night before someone's scheduled to surrender. And there's only so much I can do in 24 hours. Yeah. It's difficult. I believe in being very hands-on. This is not a transactional business. This is about picking and choosing your clients so that you can give them the attention that
that they need and in many cases are not getting from their attorneys because attorneys typically, their job is to get you to sentencing and it ends there. Mine goes for what could be years after.
Well... On Friday, there was a major race riot at Brooklyn MDC. 45 people were injured. I'm told at least one casualty. Numerous people have been taken to the hospital. The detention center is on lockdown for at least one month. They're not allowing any visits other than legal visits, and even those are being strained.
The only time an inmate can come out of their cell, so Diddy, as well as everyone else, in that facility, they are locked in their cell 24 hours a day.
He's on what's called general population floor, even though I think it's 4W. It's a single-tiered floor. I was on a single-tiered floor that are usually used for more high-profile inmates. He's on the same floor as Sam Backman-Freed. I have a client that is a foreign national that's on that floor. I think he's one or two cells over from Sean Combs. Really?
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