Jason Cardiff has disobeyed courtroom orders instructing him to return to the US by January nineteenth.
Within the lead as much as Cardiff’s potential fugitive standing, the DOJ executed a beforehand filed extradition warrant.
For context, Cardiff was arrested on fraud prices pertaining to Redwood Scientific Applied sciences in November 2023.
Cardiff can be the proprietor of RengaLife, an short-lived MLM firm that marketed Redwood’s merchandise, therefore BehindMLM’s curiosity in proceedings.
Again in July 2024 Cardiff was given permission to journey to Eire to go to his spouse, who then had purportedly not too long ago suffered a coronary heart assault.
After touchdown in Eire Cardiff promptly developed “sudden severe well being issues” of his personal, facilitating an prolonged keep in Eire.
Because the months dragged on Cardiff continued to provide you with new excuses associated to his claimed well being issues. In December 2024 Cardiff’s scheduled trial was delayed to July 2025.
In persevering with his trial, the courtroom signalled it had had sufficient of Cardiff’s video games. On December twentieth Cardiff was ordered again to the US by January nineteenth and, “absent extenuating circumstances”, warned the courtroom was “unlikely to grant future requests to journey or lengthen journey.”
After spending the vacation season together with his household in Eire, Cardiff set about arising with what he little question hoped had been “extenuating circumstances”.
On January 14th Cardiff filed one more movement requesting one other journey extension;
Mr. Cardiff requests the Courtroom to grant his Ex Parte Utility for an Order Extending Worldwide Journey and Returning his Passport:
(a) extending his journey to Eire from on or about January 19, 2025 for a interval of 100 and twenty (120) days returning on or about Could 19, 2025; and that
(b) Defendant present the Courtroom with an up to date standing on his physicians diagnostic testing and therapy standing on a month-to-month foundation.
Defendant acknowledges that the Courtroom could also be reluctant to permit an prolonged keep for therapy, however respectfully submits that the Courtroom should steadiness the very actual danger that flying could lead to severe damage and attainable dying if Mr. Cardiff should return to the US earlier than he’s handled sufficiently for his present medical situation.
The courtroom denied Cardiff’s journey extension movement on January fifteenth.
On January sixteenth Cardiff filed one more movement requesting one other journey extension;
Mr. Cardiff’s physicians have decided, by diagnostic testing, that there he has severe medical issues and opine that he’s at the moment unfit to journey and beneficial a 3-4 month therapy plan.
If untreated, the physicians conclude that he’ll face extra severe well being penalties if pressured to journey earlier than he receives sufficient therapy. This proof is unrebutted.
Considerably tellingly, Cardiff opposed his medical data being made obtainable to the DOJ for additional investigation.
The courtroom denied Cardiff’s second journey extension movement on January seventeenth.
Of be aware is Cardiff disclosing execution of an extradition warrant in his January sixteenth movement;
On January 14, 2025, brokers of the Irish Garda confronted Mr. Cardiff within the parking zone of his residence in Dublin (blocking his exit) and informed him that they needed to arrest him on an extradition warrant issued by the Authorities on October 23, 2023, virtually two months earlier than his arrest at LAX on this case.
Mr. Cardiff confirmed the brokers a duplicate of this Courtroom’s Order allowing journey. Detective Sergeant Murray informed Mr. Cardiff that he might both be arrested and go along with them or he might give up his passport and his spouse’s passport.
Mr. Cardiff surrendered the passports.
Mr. Cardiff is affected by severe well being issues and his spouse not too long ago suffered a coronary heart assault. Each had been extraordinarily upset and humiliated at being confronted with a warrant and attainable arrest.
Happily, his eleven-year previous daughter was not current to witness this scene.
On January 18th Cardiff filed one more movement requestion one other journey extension.
The Courtroom’s denial cited inadequate proof that air journey posed sure and unavoidable hurt to Defendant’s well being, discovering that prior medical suggestions relied on conditional language and lacked definitive conclusions.
Defendant requests a short extension of the return date set within the Courtroom’s order, from January 19, 2025, to January 24, 2025 or as in any other case set by the Courtroom.
This extension will enable the Courtroom adequate time to judge new medical paperwork addressing the Courtroom’s considerations.
On January twenty first the DOJ filed an opposition to Cardiff’s movement, requesting a bench warrant be issued for his arrest.
Senior USPO Ryan McClellan confirmed to the undersigned right this moment by phone that Defendant has not returned to the US because the Courtroom ordered.
Defendant’s refusal to stick to the Courtroom’s order is additional proof that he’s a flight danger, and the federal government believes a bench warrant needs to be issued for Defendant’s arrest.
Defendant claims that he has suffered from a medical situation since a minimum of 2016 which now makes him “unfit to fly.” He has, nonetheless, taken a minimum of 20 flights since his arrest in November 2023.
The courtroom denied Cardiff’s third journey extension movement later the identical day. The DOJ’s request for a bench warrant was not addressed.
On January twenty fourth Cardiff filed a Standing Report, confirming he had disobeyed the courtroom’s orders.
Mr. Cardiff has determined to observe the directions of his physicians. Nonetheless, he has each intention to return to the US when his physicians clear him for journey.
On January twenty seventh, Cardiff filed an ex-parte software for an order stopping his arrest in relation to the beforehand executed extradition warrant.
The DOJ filed its opposition to Cardiff’s software on January twenty eighth, arguing it did
not adjust to this Courtroom’s substantive or procedural necessities for ex parte aid.
Defendant has not established the existence of an emergency scenario that may trigger irreparable prejudice to his trigger ought to his movement be heard on an everyday schedule nor has he filed a separate proposed movement as required by the Courtroom’s Standing Order and Mission Energy Eng’g Co.
Defendant’s software needs to be re-filed as a movement, seen for a listening to, and heard on a standard movement schedule, which permits time for the federal government to totally overview, reply, and advise the Courtroom appropriately.
Requiring the federal government to reply inside 24 hours is unfair and results in rushed positions and recommendation to the Courtroom in a way that isn’t as thorough as one beneath the traditional movement submitting deadlines.
Being pressured to reply inside a 24-hour interval is a major drawback to the federal government.
A listening to on Cardiff’s beforehand filed Motions to Dismiss is scheduled for January thirtieth. Cardiff has requested he be allowed to attend the listening to nearly, which the DOJ has opposed.
Defendant has filed quite a few baseless, meritless, and frivolous ex parte functions and motions to dismiss over the previous 12 months.
Now, he refuses to stick to the Courtroom’s orders however expects the Courtroom to listen to his arguments on the motions. All 4 rationales of the fugitive disentitlement doctrine apply right here.
There isn’t a assurance that Defendant will return to the US to face the costs towards him.
Defendant needs to be penalized for actively disobeying the Courtroom’s orders. Defendant needs to be deterred from losing the Courtroom’s time and prohibited from being a wedge within the environment friendly operation of the courtroom system.
Defendant continues to file for aid on an ex parte foundation, whereas he himself refuses to obey the Courtroom’s orders. His victims are prejudiced with repeated trial continuances whereas he refuses to return to the US.
Defendant needs to be ordered to return to the US and face the costs towards him with no additional delay.
Accordingly, the federal government requests the Courtroom deny defendant’s ex parte software and make the most of the fugitive disentitlement doctrine to discourage the defendant from remaining in Eire in violation of the Courtroom’s orders.
It’s unclear whether or not the courtroom will tackle something past Cardiff’s Motions to Dismiss on the January thirtieth listening to. Keep tuned.