Former Reagan Aide Sentenced to 5 to 10 Years
Posted on Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 01:46:20 PM EST
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A former aide to President Ronald Reagan and veteran Republican advisor was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in state prison.
A veteran GOP consultant was sentenced today to 5 to 10 years in prison for luring two male college students into his home on separate occasions, holding them captive in his spartan apartment and threatening them with Mafia retaliation if they contacted their friends or family.
A jury convicted Leon Abramovitz, of Shadyside, in July on charges of theft, coercion, false imprisonment, unauthorized practice of law, simple assault, indecent assault and making terroristic threats. His victims, 24-year-old and 22-year-old University of Pittsburgh students, were lured into his home with the promise of jobs tailored to their career goals.
Abramovitz told the judge he feared for his safety in prison:
He told the judge he feared for his safety after inmates in his pod at Allegheny County Jail got their hands on a discovery folder from his trial and began calling him a "baby raper" and threatening to have inmates at the state prison "take care of him."
The Judge's response:
Judge Allen told him he "chose to victimize two people while on probation for the very conduct" he was previously convicted of engaging in. "It's your verbal prowess that poses a danger to society," she said. "As long as you are able to speak, Mr. Abramovitz, you are a danger to society."
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