Federal court administrators have conducted a “review” of some of the circumstances behind the escape of Leonard Francis last September from a luxury home detention setup in San Diego but declined to provide additional details about the stunning breakout to a Republican senator.
Francis cut off a GPS monitoring bracelet on Sept. 4 inside a Carmel Valley-area mansion where he was living under a highly unusual medical furlough leave from federal jail. He was captured 14 days later in Venezuela, where he remains as the U.S. seeks to extradite him and as Francis simultaneously pursues asylum.Mauskopf responded to a Nov.
Some problems were found, but she declined to provide details. “Based on our review, we made several findings and recommendations pertaining to the offices’ compliance with national policies and procedures, such as documenting supervision activities. However, I will note that there is no reason to believe these findings were directly related to ... Mr. Francis’ ability to abscond,” she wrote.