Doing Hard Time at the Ritz

Paying your debt to society has never sounded so appealing. A man sentenced to home detention in Southern California is doing his time at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, where amenities include Los Angeles’s only waterfront pool and hot tub and Jer-ne Restaurant + Bar, which Los Angeles Magazine raved has the city’s “Best Fusion Cuisine.” The federal prosecutor for the case is nonplussed, observing, “When someone is sentenced to electronic monitoring, normally the presumption is he’s not going to be holed up in a four-star hotel.” Actually, by AAA’s ratings system, the hotel is a five-diamond. In fact, it’s the only waterfront five-diamond hotel in L.A.

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