Judge says he’ll vacate fraudster’s sentence if he’s sent to ‘barbaric’ MDC Brooklyn federal jail

Conditions at Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center federal jail are so horrific that a Long Island judge ruled he would vacate an elderly tax scammer’s sentence and give him house arrest instead if he’s sent there. Long Island Federal Court Judge Gary Brown sentenced 74-year-old Daniel Colucci to nine months behind bars on Monday, but wrote a trap door into his decision so he wouldn’t be subjected to the “dangerous, barbaric conditions” at the Brooklyn jail. If for some reason the federal Bureau of Prisons sends Colucci to the MDC...