Mark Scott’s mysterious bond conditions hearing
About a week ago we noticed a bond hearing schedule appear on Mark Scott’s OneCoin case docket.
What the hearing pertains to or why it was scheduled was not disclosed.
We’re still not 100% sure why the hearing has been called, but a recent filing suggests the DOJ is pushing for changes to Scott’s current bail conditions.
Scott’s bond hearing was originally scheduled for February 25th.
Owing to a “pre-scheduled medical appointment” for a non-publicly disclosed condition, Scott (right) requested a reschedule on February 18th.
On February 19th the motion was granted, and a new bond hearing has been scheduled for February 26th.
In his original letter request, Scott also asked the court to order the DOJ
make a submission no later than Friday, February 21, 2020, setting forth its arguments for any change in bail conditions.
That part of the request was denied. The DOJ are still free to make a filing but only if they wish to do so.
As at the time of publication, the DOJ hasn’t made any such filings.
The more important take-away is that the bond hearing appears to have been scheduled at the DOJ’s request, with the aim of making changes to Scott’s current bail conditions.
Last September Scott’s bond was set at $2.5 million dollars. He was released under home detention.
Unless there’s something I’m missing, I can’t see the DOJ requesting a hearing unless Scott hasn’t been adhering to set conditions.
Could be an interesting hearing, given $2.5 million is potentially on the line.
Stay tuned…
not good! This man is really crazy!
The new bond hearing will be adjourned to March 6th, because Mark Scott has to “attend to an urgent family medical situation”.
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287.229.0.pdf
I’m surprised he hasn’t bought a walker and trotted out the doctors yet.
I was waiting for him to come to court in an electric scooter and a nurse by his side with an IV on a cart ready to insert it in his arm when he becomes faint.
More dramatic this way and makes it look like he is more infirmed than he truly is. Time will tell. He might be saving that for his sentencing hearing.
Mark S Scott has been suspended by Florida Supreme court “until further notice”:
(law.com/dailybusinessreview/2020/02/27/florida-supreme-court-suspends-miami-lawyer-former-locke-lord-partner/)
His bond hearing is rescheduled to March 10th. There is also a new letter in the case, but it’s not on Courtnlistener as I write.
The Feb 28th letter requests another reschedule, as Scott’s attorney in in court that day and Scott “has two previously scheduled medical appointments”.
It appears Scott might pull the “you can’t send me to prison, I live in hospital now!” defense.
New dates requested are March 12th and 13th.