July 5, 2008
Serbian Baller Doesn't Trust American Law & Order
A lawyer for Miladin Kovacevic says that the 6'9" 260 lb. basketball player doesn't trust the U.S. legal system and was taunted and tortured by inmates and guards after he was arrested for allegedly beating a 135 lb. college senior into a coma in Binghamton last month. Veselin Cerovic explained that's why Kovacevic jumped bail and fled the country with an emergency passport issued by the Serbian consulate in New York, "My client told me that he did not flee to hide from justice, but because he doesn't believe in the American justice system."
The Serbian government has since relieved the Consul General, Slobodan Nenodovic, from his position and WCBS reports that the Serbian Vice Consul who was instrumental in getting Kovacevic out of the country will face criminal charges--diplomatic immunity notwithstanding. Serbia and the United States do not have a standing extradition treaty, so the impetus to have Kovacevic returned to the U.S. is leaning heavily on political pressure.
Kovacevic was attending SUNY Binghamton on a basketball scholarship and is accused of beating Bryan Steinhauer of Brooklyn into a coma with the help of two other students who have also been arrested. It's suspected that the men thought that Steinhauer had groped a woman in their company at a bar.
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why aren't they trying this hard to get those hedge fund bailers extradited back to the US?
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I guess that makes it even. At this point, I'm pretty sure U.S. justice doesn't trust him, either.
Taunted? Maybe. Tortured? He doesn't know the meaning of the word. Abner Louima was tortured. Abu Ghraib had torture. A cop pushing you along with your hands securely cuffed for their safety is not torture. So the poor, little 6' 9" 260 pound boy couldn't handle a few drunks in his holding cell? He wasn't so shy at the bar. Forget jail. Can we send him down to the rebels in Colombia as a consolation? "Here, we're sorry we took your 15 hostages. You can have this one instead."
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Jacque,
"Hedge Fund bailers" stole from Hedge Fund investors, who are , with limited exception, "accredited investors." An accredited investor, who is a natural person, is Any natural person whose individual net worth, or joint net worth with that person's spouse, at the time of investment exceeds $1,000,000; or Any natural person who had an individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person's spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of those years and has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year(Rule 501(a)(5)-(6), Reg D, 1933 Securities Act). Not exactly old women and war widows.
Basically, Hedge Fund investors are big boys and I cry few tears when they are swindled. However, this nuance of the securities market is neither connected to the price of Pabst Blue Ribbon nor contained within the text of the labeling of Pabst Blue Ribbon, so I doubt you caught it.
This Serbian animal needs to be tagged and imprisoned.
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so the rich can't seek justice when they're swindled? and, yes I know hedge fund investors are ultra rich. so, they broke the law and are exempt?
wait, did I just write that?
thankfully Pb is still cheap and available to all who needs it.
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No, Hedge Fund baddies are not exempt. But to your point about "trying this hard to get those hedge fund bailers extradited back to the US": the finite resources of our prosecutorial bodies should first go to cases of gervious physical injury. I believe prosecutorial bodies should give a lower priority to redressing the pecuniary losses of individuals who can easily bear those losses.
The criminal actions of Slobodan Nenodovic intensify the need for the United States to see justice done in this case.
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Now that the US government thinks torture is OK, this is the kind of shit we are going to have to put up with from now on. Get used to it.
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Steroids. What fool could possibly think that steroids improves his basketball game? SUNY Binghampton's program needs some looking into.
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Wow, can the comments get any more Off topic??
He's 6'9" 260 lb. and he was taunted and tortured?
Taunted, I could believe
"Tortured"? I have my doubts...
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Funny, I could have sworn I wrote that back in message [2] above.
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If he can take advantage of the American educational system, and its scholarship money, he can most certainly buck up and partake of its justice system.