Chuck Rizzo Jr. (Fox 2 screenshot)
Former trash hauling king, Chuck Rizzo Jr., who was jailed in February pending sentencing after the feds accused him of intimidating a federal witness, is going to remain behind bars for now.
U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland denied a motion from his attorneys to reconsider a bond revocation, the Mitch Hotts of The Macomb Daily reports.
Rizzo, the former CEO of Rizzo Environmental Services, is a central figure in an FBI probe focused primarily in Macomb County in which local officials were given bribes in exchange for landing garbage hauling contracts.
In February, the judge revoked his $10,000 personal bond, finding that he had bumped into a witness in the case at the MGM Grand Casino and tried getting him to change his story.
The garbage kingpin will likely remain in jail until his April 23 sentencing in federal court. Defense attorneys had asked that he be released to help them prepare.
