CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man convicted of taking hostages at a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office in New Hampshire in 2007 has been denied a request to be re-located closer to home to complete his sentence on a later charge.
Leeland Eisenberg was sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison for robbing a bank in Manchester and possessing cocaine. Incarcerated in Indiana, Eisenberg recently asked to serve the rest of his sentence at a facility in Massachusetts. He argued it was better equipped to monitor his heart condition and that he’d be closer to family.
A judge on Thursday said she lacked jurisdiction to grant Eisenberg’s request. She also noted that the Bureau of Prisons is currently reassessing his medical classification to determine whether a transfer to a different facility is appropriate. Eisenberg is scheduled to finish his sentence in November, followed by supervised release.
Eisenberg spent at least two years in prison for a five-hour standoff at Clinton’s Rochester, New Hampshire, campaign office during her first run for president. No one was hurt.
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