As discussed below, the defendant’s legal team has attempted to mitigate this substantial risk of flight by taking steps such as taking his family’s passports, attempting to sell his plane, and reporting his whereabouts to the Government. These steps have been taken with the precise goal of crafting an argument for bail before the Court. While the defendant may have made the calculated decision in consultation with his attorneys not to flee before any charges were filed, that calculus inevitably changes today, when an Indictment charging the defendant with extremely serious offenses carrying enormous potential penalties was unsealed. He is now—for the first time in his life—facing a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years and a maximum term of imprisonment of life, in which the Government is prepared to prove the charges against him by, among other things, the testimony of dozens of witnesses and victims to his serial abuse, and evidence from dozens of his own electronic devices and those of his co-conspirators. Given the serious nature of the charges, the strength of the evidence, and the defendant’s access to vast amounts of resources, his risk of flight is more pronounced today than it has ever been.
They saw all this coming. If you want to read nothing else, read this. This is it in a few sentences.