to respond, but Judge Brinkema continued. "You will never again get a chance to speak," she said, "and that is an appropriate and fair ending." On April 2, 2009, Brinkema weighed in on the question of whether terrorist detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could be prosecuted in the civilian justice system. In 2011, she presided over the fraud trial of Lee Farkas, CEO of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker. During his sentencing hearing on June 30, 2011, she said that she did not observe any genuine remorse, and sentenced the 58-year-old Farkas to 30 years in federal prison. She ordered Farkas and six others to pay a total of about $US3.5 billion in restitution. On January 28, 2017, she was the second to order a stay of an executive order by President Donald Trump, which restricted immigration into the United States and prevented the return of green-card holders and others. Although the order issued was a temporary restraining order, it blocked the removal of any green-card holders being detained at Dulles International Airport for seven days. Brinkema's action also ordered that lawyers have access to those held there because of the president's ban. See also Ali al-Tamimi 2005 CIA interrogation tapes destruction Notes References Leonie Brinkema Biography, Tech Law Journal, last updated 1999. External links U.S.D.C. Eastern district of Virginia Terrorists and Detainees: Do We Need a New National Security Court? podcast of keynote address by Leonie Brinkema at the Washington College of Law at American University, February 1, 2008. 1944 births Living people People from Teaneck, New Jersey United States Department of Justice lawyers Cornell Law School alumni University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Virginia lawyers Rutgers University alumni New York University alumni Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton United States magistrate judges Assistant United States Attorneys 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges 20th-century American women judges 21st-century American women judges