Former councilmember and soon-to-be federal inmate Chaim Deutsch has been given an additional three weeks of liberty, so his newly administered COVID-19 vaccine can take full effect.
The Manhattan federal judge handling the disgraced pol’s case, James Cott, granted a request by Deutsch’s attorney Henry Mazurek to move the date he is required to surrender to federal custody from Oct. 29 to Nov. 19, after Deutsch decided at the last minute to receive a Johnson & Johnson single-dose shot, as first reported by the New York Post.
Mazurek noted in court filings that Deutsch had up until now refused the jab for “personal reasons,” but he had a change of heart in recent weeks after realizing he would soon be doing time in a congregate prison setting where COVID can, and has been proven to, spread like wildfire.
