CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Silberman Request for Release Denied

A federal judge Wednesday denied Richard T. Silberman’s request to be released from jail and allowed to remain at home, guarded by an electronic monitoring system, while he awaits sentencing for his role in a money-laundering scheme. Instead, U.S. District Judge J. Lawrence Irving said Silberman, a San Diego financier and one-time aide to Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., will have to remain at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego until he is sentenced on Sept. 25. He said Silberman had not proven he was not a flight risk. Defense attorneys had asked Irving to place Silberman, 61, under house arrest and to fit his ankle with an electronic transmitter that would notify authorities if he left his La Jolla residence. He was convicted in June of federal currency law violations in a scheme to launder money purported to be proceeds of Colombian drug trafficking.