Following an eight week long trial, the jury took four hours to convict David Gentile and Jeffry Schneider on all counts. The crimes the two committed carry a maximum sentence of 240 months in US Federal Prison.

David Gentile filed three post-conviction motions on September 13, 2024. Scheider joined in these motions by a letter to the court: 

1. Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based On Prosecutorial Misconduct: 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the accompanying Memorandum of Law, Defendant David Gentile will move this Court, before the Honorable Rachel Kovner, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, at the United States Courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza E, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, on a date and time to be determined by the Court, for an Order granting Defendant David Gentile’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based On Prosecutorial Misconduct.

2. Motion for a Judgment of Acquittal: 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the accompanying Memorandum of Law, Defendant David Gentile will move this Court, before the Honorable Rachel Kovner, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, at the United States Courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza E, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, on a date and time to be determined by the Court, for an Order granting Defendant David Gentile’s Motion for a Judgment of Acquittal.

3. Motion for a New Trial: 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the accompanying Memorandum of Law, Defendant David Gentile will move this Court, before the Honorable Rachel Kovner, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, at the United States Courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza E, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, on a date and time to be determined by the Court, for an Order granting Defendant David Gentile’s Motion for a New Trial. Case 1:21-cr-00054-RPK-PK Document 490 Filed 09/13/24 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 18674

During the pendency of their criminal trial, Gentile and Schneider’s separate defense teams submitted numerous motions and sent letters to the judge. This criminal case has went on for years and now the newly-convicted felons Gentile and Schneider want the charges dismissed, an acquittal, and a new trial. 

This seems illogical because if the GPB Capital criminal duo were acquitted and the charges  dismissed, then there would be no need for a new trial. 

This is desperation, a post-conviction attempt due to escape the 20 year prison sentence which is a consequence of their own actions.

We have all the documents and will be posting them. Below we post Gentile’s 152-page motion for a new trial. 

To read Gentile’s motion makes it seem like he and Schneider were railroaded by a dirty judge in league with corrupt prosecutors. Comically, and quite ironically, Gentile’s motion actually reads like a jailhouse pro se complaint alleging ineffective assistance of counsel during the seven week trial; the motion reads as if Gentile and Schneider’s high-priced criminal defense lawyers were slack-jawed and clueless yellow page lawyers who were too inept to see or defend against the vast machinations alleged by the two newly-minted felons. 

As we documented, Gentile and Schneider spent $108 million in legal defense fees over the past several years and were still convicted on all charges. To make it all the worse, Scientology has forgotten David Gentile’s name. He’s now just a guy who read a book and did a few courses way back when.