(Providence, RI)--There will be no compassionate release for former Cranston coin shop owner and convicted money-launderer Stephen Saccoccia.The Providence Journal reports a federal judge on Monday rejected the request, which was made on COVID-19 grounds, indicating Saccoccia had not demonstrated that he was personally at risk of severe complications from the respiratory disease.Saccoccia was convicted in 1993 for helping a Colombian drug cartel and is serving a 660-year sentence at Coleman Penitentiary in Florida.The ProJo report indicates that facility has reported nearly two-hundred virus cases, but no deaths.
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