A Long Island real estate attorney was spared prison on Friday by a federal judge who said she was impressed by his exemplary record of community service. Ravi Persaud faced a minimum of 46 months in prison under the federal sentencing guidelines for his Aug. 26, 2010, conviction for conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud and three counts of participating in a scheme to defraud a bank out of home mortgage loans.
But Southern District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin said that letters she reviewed from family, friends and ex-clients of Mr. Persaud “spoke to a person who had been a very, very outstanding member of the community. You have a lawyer here who touched so many lives in so many positive ways.” The audience of friends and family members who appeared for Mr. Persaud’s sentencing broke into applause and shed tears when the judge said, “To make this quick, I cannot send this man to jail.” Instead, she sentenced Mr. Persaud, 44, to 12 weekends of “intermittent community confinement.”
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