Cause of death: American fascism.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    So… guy was convicted of distributing prescription drugs, claimed to be not guilty, accepted a plea deal, served his time, got his community service commuted to probation, presumably due to unlikelihood to reoffend, THEN got picked up by ICE to be deported to a country he hasn’t lived in for 34 years, and winds up mysteriously dead in custody.

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      7 hours ago

      Lesson here: Don’t accept a plea deal if you’re not born in the US to US citizens, unless you’re OK to be deported when your plea deal ends.

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      16 hours ago

      You missed on one detail: he was a full on MAGA, sharing posts about enforcing US immigration laws and the unstoppable Trump Train.

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        17 hours ago

        It specifies all of what they said in the article OP linked.

        Midway through it mentions he migrated to the states in 1991 (which was ~34 years ago), and the final paragraph of the article is:

        Noviello was charged with trafficking oxycodone and other illegal drugs, as well as racketeering and using a two-way communication device to facilitate criminal activity. He pleaded guilty to all charges in September 2023 after withdrawing an earlier plea of not guilty. In February of this year, a judge granted Noviello’s request to convert the remainder of his two-year supervised community control sentence to probation