United States District Judge Andrew P. Gordon yesterday ordered that David Damante's revocation hearing, originally scheduled for Monday, October 28, be delayed until November 12.
According to a motion filed October 23 on Damante's behalf by Assistant Federal Public Defender Andrew Wong, on the day of his initial court appearance (October 3), Damante’s mother had a stroke and was admitted to a Sacramento hospital.
On October 5, Damante’s mother passed away, according to court documents.
Damante later contacted Federal Public Defender Sylvia Irvin, who “worked with the Probation Office to allow Damante to travel to Sacramento to pay respects to his mother and to spend time with his brother and family.”
Damante is expected to return to Las Vegas from Sacramento today.
Forgive me for being skeptical, but I'm having a hard time buying this.
Aside from not being able to locate a death notice for his mother in any Sacramento-related obituary site, Damante has a history of concocting and conflating circumstances involving the health of family members—including the brother cited in the October 23 motion.
As Damante's brother is a private citizen, and not under federal supervision, I'm not revealing his name.
However, in a letter submitted July 23, 2014 on Damante's behalf by Michael Frantz of Jail Time Consulting LLC (a white-collar offender who spent thirty-six months of a fifty-one month sentence in a “Low Security Federal Correctional Institution” in Miami, Florida), Damante's brother is described as having “stage 4 brain cancer”.
Although Damante's brother was diagnosed with a form of cancer in 2002, by 2007 he had recovered and graduated from college. His story was featured on local news, and he is currently alive and well.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
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