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        <title><![CDATA[Tekashi 6ix9ine kidnapper wants to swap jail for home confinement amid coronavirus]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Tekashi 6ix9ine</strong>&#8216;s kidnapper is asking to be let out of jail and into home confinement because he has asthma and is especially at risk during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a letter filed in court.</p><p>Anthony &#8220;Harv&#8221; Ellison, a reputed member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods and former bodyguard for Tekashi, <strong>was convicted in October</strong> of kidnapping the rainbow-haired Brooklyn rapper in July 2018.</p><p>Lawyers for Ellison — who is in jail awaiting sentencing in the case in which he was also found guilty of racketeering conspiracy — are asking a judge to release him from the Metropolitan Correctional Center on $200,000 bail and home confinement, according to a Manhattan Federal court filing.</p><p>Ellison has asthma and &#8220;given the outbreak of COVID-19 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), Anthony&#8217;s health and welfare is in great peril,&#8221; his lawyers wrote to Judge Paul Engelmayer.</p><p>Ellison — who is set to be sentenced on June 19 — hasn&#8217;t been able to adequately social distance or sanitize during the health crisis.</p><p>For instance, inmates are not able to maintain 6 feet of distance from each other &#8212; plus inmates all share bunks, sinks, toilets and showers with other inmates, the letter says.</p><p>Ellison&#8217;s unit has received an inadequate amount of soap for showers and clothes-washing and inmates have not been allowed to buy extra, the letter says.</p><p>Ellison also hasn&#8217;t been able to see his lawyer for over a month &#8212; all while he&#8217;s supposed to be preparing for sentencing &#8212; which his lawyer says violates his constitutional rights.</p><p>Tekashi — given name Daniel Hernandez — was arrested for racketeering in 2018, but he cut a plea deal and became a government cooperator before spending three days testifying against his former Bloods pals.</p><p>The &#8220;Gummo&#8221; rapper <strong>testified at the time that he was beaten</strong> and robbed of his expensive jewelry, including a $95,000 diamond-encrusted My Little Pony chain, before he was dropped off in rival gang territory.</p><p>A spokesman from the US attorney&#8217;s office declined to comment.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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