A defense attorney for Jorge Navarro filed their pre-sentencing report Dec. 3 with the United States District Courtroom in the Southern District of New York, the subsequent proceeding in the situation of the suspended trainer who pled responsible Aug. 11 on expenses involving the use of general performance-boosting medication in racehorses.
Navarro is established to be sentenced Dec. 17 as section of a federal indictment of more than two dozen folks in Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing for allegedly collaborating in a “popular, corrupt scheme by racehorse trainers, veterinarians, (functionality-boosting drug) distributors, and others to manufacture, distribute, and acquire adulterated and misbranded PEDs and to secretly administer all those PEDs to racehorses underneath scheme participants’ control.”
1 of the greatest-profile people billed in the case, Navarro faces the possibility of deportation from the U.S., exactly where he has resided for the past 35 a long time, to his native Panama thanks to his immigration position as a removable alien. BloodHorse very first reported the likelihood of deportation just after the Aug. 11 alter of plea listening to in advance of choose Mary Kay Vyskocil, at which Navarro admitted to administering a variety of adulterated and misbranded PEDs, which includes a material he referred to as “monkey,” to various horses, among them the late quality 1 winner X Y Jet , who Navarro documented lifeless in January 2020 thanks to an alleged heart attack.
X Y Jet trains in 2018 at Meydan
Navarro’s counsel tackled the matter of deportation in extra detail in their Friday submitting, noting Navarro “is facing an almost selected deportation to a nation wherever he has just about no familial, social, or financial ties” and “may well even provide a lengthier incarceration phrase than requested by the Courtroom as a outcome of the collateral penalties of individual (Division of Homeland Security) deportation proceedings, which will only begin after he is transferred from the (Federal Bureau of Prisons) to (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement).”

Due to his immigration status, Navarro will not qualified for incarceration at FCI Miami or FCI Coleman, federal bare minimum-protection prisons wherever “numerous likewise located defendants would ordinarily be specified which would be exceptionally conducive to family visitation,” attorney Jason Kreiss wrote, noting he “may well be specified to a BOP privately contracted facility considerably from his spouse and children…”
Sentencing tips phone for a prison expression of up to five yrs with a prerequisite that at least 85% of the eventual sentence be served, followed by up to a few several years of probation. Navarro has also admitted a “loss to victims” resulting from his action of far more than $25 million in purse money and has agreed to make restitution.
The filing asked for that the Court docket “impose a sentence beneath the advisory guideline variety… and advise that the Bureau of Prisons designate him to a facility as shut to South Florida achievable to facilitate spouse and children visitation.”
Navarro’s attorney also submitted 70 character references in a 100-web page doc from folks ranging from numerous members of Navarro’s relatives to those who labored with the coach in a experienced capacity, like several house owners, veterinarian Dr. Joel Lugo of Ocala Equine Healthcare facility, and retired jockey Rene Douglas.
According to prosecutors, Navarro operated his doping plan covertly, importing misbranded clenbuterol that he equally utilized and dispersed to some others. They famous he prevented express dialogue of PEDs throughout telephone calls and worked with many others to coordinate the administration of PEDs at occasions that racing officials would not detect this sort of dishonest.
“Jorge recognizes that his perform in this circumstance calls into question his treatment for his horses, but people that know him as a horseman and trainer realize his legitimate really like and devotion to his horses,” the filing study. “At this juncture, possessing been absent from horse racing for practically 2 decades, Jorge realizes the problems of his approaches and is contrite, remorseful, and wishes he could roll back again the fingers of time.
“Touring close to the state on the racing circuit for months on conclusion in an ultracompetitive natural environment, waking up in advance of dawn and leaving his home prior to viewing his young children, coming dwelling after his children were being asleep, and seeking to appease the entrepreneurs broke him. Sad to say, the force related with qualified horse racing and taking care of a 140-racehorse stable coupled with his insatiable motivation to get tainted his judgment and led to his downfall, for which he takes whole and total obligation.
“Rather than stepping back again and reevaluating, Jorge designed lifetime-altering selections that will haunt him for good. Jorge does not make excuses for his carry out but offers this clarification for his steps which he will handle more in his allocution at the time of sentencing.”
A sentencing report from the prosecution is due to the court Dec. 10.