A judge rejected Manhattan madam Anna Gristina’s fourth request to reduce her whopping $2 million bond yesterday.
Gristina’s lawyer, Gary Greenwald, insisted that the bail was too extreme for the alleged crime, and that it has kept the mother of a 9-year-old boy locked up on Rikers Island since her February arrest.
He claimed that the “seven-figure bail” is “not fair — that’s not reasonable.”
But Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon rejected those arguments.
Solomon, in upholding the bail, noted that Justice Juan Merchan, who set the bail amount, had stated in great detail his reasons.
Prosecutors had obtained that sky-high bail by telling Merchan that Gristina ran a multimillion-dollar escort ring out of an Upper East Side apartment with help from unnamed law-enforcement officials.
But so far, prosecutors have yet to reveal details of any law-enforcement official actually being involved.
Meanwhile, the sides continued to spar over wiretap transcripts and other documents prosecutors have accumulated since Gristina first came on their radar eight years ago.