The End of Michael Geilenfeld’s Judicial Lottery Story.
Posted by Ed Folsom, May 25, 2025. (Revised to include link to Miami Herald story May 31, 2025).
This is my third blog touching on the very strange story of Michael Geilenfeld and its implications. Geilenfeld ran an orphanage in Haiti from 1985 until some point after 2010. During that time, he molested young boys in his charge. At one point, he and his legal team came to Maine and persuaded a federal jury to award him $7 million in defamation damages against a Maine resident who had reported that Geilenfeld molested kids in his charge in the orphanage he ran in Haiti. That award was later set aside because the federal District Court lacked jurisdiction over the matter to begin with.
Then, in January of 2024, Geilenfeld was arrested in Colorado and was transported to Miami, Florida, for trial in federal court there. That court did not lack jurisdiction to adjudicate the criminal charges against Geilenfeld, for engaging in illicit sexual contact with minors in a foreign place and for traveling from Miami to Haiti for that purpose. In February of this year, Geilenfeld was convicted of six counts of the former conduct and one count of the latter. Sentencing was held on May 23.
That day, Geilenfeld was sentenced to 210 years in federal prison. That’s right — at one point, Geilenfeld was awarded $7 million dollars by a federal jury in Maine on his successful claim of victimhood, regarding activity that ultimately earned him 210 years in federal prison. That’s some crazy stuff. The connection to Maine is an embarrassing one.
Read the Miami Herald story on the case, here.
Related posts:
https://edfolsomlaw.com/2024/01/institutionalized-moral-confusion-the-sexualization-of-children/
