Former CEO Abercrombie & Fitch suffers from dementia and not competentStandal on charges of trading sexAccording to the prosecutor’s office and his lawyers.
Michael Jeffrist requires 24-hour assistance because at the age of 80, Alzheimer’s disease, Lewi Dementia and “residual consequences of traumatic brain injury,” the defenders wrote in a letter filed on Thursday in the New York Federal Court, citing the latest assessments of medical workers.
Prosecutors and lawyers want the federal judge in Central to place Jeffries in custody the Federal Prison Bureau for four months so that he can be hospitalized and treatment that can allow his criminal case to continue.
Jeffris has been free at $ 10 million sinceNot pleading guiltyIn October, from the federal trade sex and interstate prostitution.
Prosecutors say Jeffreris, his romantic partner and a third man, lured men to sexual parties who support drugs in New York, Hampton and other places, hanging the promise to model the seller’s advertisement.
Jeffries did not immediately respond to e -mail to comment on Friday. The US Prosecutor’s Office in the eastern district of New York refused to comment.
In their letter, Jeffryis’s lawyers said at least four medical professionals concluded that their client’s cognitive problems were “progressive and incurable” and that he did not “restore his competence and could not be restored to competence in the future.”
They said the doctors found that his cognitive problems “significantly worsen” his ability to understand the allegations against him, as well as to consult and participate with his advice in his defense.
“The progressive nature of its neurocognitive disorder provides a constant decrease over time, further reducing it already limited functional capacity,” wrote Dr. Alexander Bardi, Medical Psychiatrist, and Dr. Sheryl Paradis, Medical Psychologist, wrote after them after themEstimates of December. “Thus, our professional opinion, in a reasonable degree of psychological and psychiatric confidence, Mr. Jeffris does not competently act in the current case and cannot be restored in competence in the future.”
Jeffriesleft Abercrombie in 2014After the campaign for more than two decades. He chaired in the evolution of retail trade in the Manhattan hunting store and outdoors, founded in 1892, in the match of the teenage shopping center in the early 2000s.
Jeffrist Matthew Smith’s partner also hashave not pleaded guiltyAnd it remains in the Bond, as well as their compatriot James Jacobson.
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