A former Connecticut bankruptcy attorney who the federal Bureau of Prisons furloughed from prison before a federal judge could act on his request for compassionate release during the COVID-19 pandemic has withdrawn his original request.

Former attorney Peter Ressler, convicted for embezzlement, had originally sought an order that would allow him to spend the remainder of his 63-month sentence in home confinement with no chance of returning to prison.

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