were told. The Solicitor General told the court that Cafaro was “temporarily released for medical treatment.” As Justice Marshall later wrote, “I do not understand how the So- licitor General’s representation that Cafaro was “still sub-ject to the pretrial detention order” can be reconciled with the fact of his release on a $1,000,000 personal recog-nizance bond.

 

Fat Tony Avoids the Slammer

 

Not long afterward, on November 19, 1986, Salerno was convicted of other federal charges, and, on January 13, 1987, he was sentenced to prison for one hundred years. With the agreement of the federal government, Salerno was not jailed pending appeal, apparently in order to keep Salerno’s other case alive bef...

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