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In #SDNY, Tekashi #6ix9ine to testify later this morning @SDNYLIVE, the trial is starting now, 25 minutes late, Inner City Press will live-tweet a threat here and see patreon.com/posts/30016699

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Judge Engelmayer admonishes a number of people for being late. Government calls its first witness, NYPD Detective Robert Deck. Courtroom Deputy Mr. Smallman swears him in. He works in 81 Precinct Detective Squad, "in the county of Kings." #BedStuy

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Detective Deck says his beat includes "Smurf Village" low rise housing project along Fulton Street. Questioning turns to October 24, 2017 - defense immediately objects. Overruled.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info It was a night of a lot for gun play, starting at 8:50 pm, and then a face slashing. Detective Deck found victim with entry wound on his back, no exit wound: paralyzed. Trial starts with a bang.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Action turned to 1700 Fulton Street, shell-casings. Now Detective Deck explaining to jury what a semi-automatic weapon is. Turns back to a "gentleman slashed across the face" by a bodega on Rochester. "The male couldn't talk, blood was coming out of his mouth."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Detective Deck is speaking more clearly- these events were on Oct 24, 2018. More on BedStuy in Brooklyn. One might wonder why this prosecution is not in #EDNY. But not only are SDNY prosecutors grabby - this is also the rare gang case with Times Square shootouts

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Now Aljermiah Mack's lawyer Louis Fasulo gets to cross examine Detective Deck, who is being evasive. Says no he doesn't have access to housing development videos, has to call to get them. No, didn't call in this case. (But got video, that's the point).

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Fasulo's cross didn't get very far. Now Anthony Ellison's lawyer Deveraux Cannick giving it a shot. He gets Detective Deck to describe man with deeply slashed face as "pretty calm." Now Judge Engelmayer has summoned all the lawyers to a whispered sidebar

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info It's Ellison's other, very active lawyer Calvin Scholar doing the questioning. Asks Detective Deck what C-4 means: "All investigative leads have been exhausted." No re-direct; gov reading in stipulation about iPhone of Kifano "Shotti" Jordan. Drum roll...

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Trial bogged down with government reading into evidence stipulation about Facebook, owner of Instagram, account of "Daniel Hernandez a/k/a Tekashi 6ix9ine." I'm thinking Judge Engelmayer will call mid-morning break before this next witness...

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Judge Engelmayer has declared a 15 minute "comfort break," from 11:12 to 11:27. Now the government says "Miss Ramirez" is the next witness. Moving the goal posts, or pulling the football back like in Charlie Brown. Engelmayer said lunch break in an hour and 20 min

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info And we're back. Witness Miss Ramirez is a hair stylist. AUSA Rebold asks her if she understand Anthony Ellison to be in a gang. Judge Engelmayer says he'll disallow without some foundation. Now condescending questions like, Did you share details about your lives?

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Miss Ramirez says Ellison told her he didn't like a song they heard because it was by an artist affiliated with the Crips. "I learned that he was part for the Bloods," she says. "He was a big Blood, the higher rank."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Miss Ramirez: On Oct 24, 2018 "we were going to go to a hotel." Then the shootings and slashing described by Detective Deck in Smurf Village. "He said his friend had gotten shot by Utica... I was in The Bronx."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info AUSA Rebold getting into details: which hotel did Ellison and Miss Ramirez stay in? 136 Ludlow Street. Lot of description of how text messages work, dropping in a pin, the shooting in #BedStuy

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info And here it is: Miss Ramirez tells the jury Ellison bragged to her he got back at the guy who shot his friend, saying "I stabbed him in the face." #SmurfVillage

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Now AUSA Rebold asks Miss Ramirez, do you know #6ix9ine? She: only from social media. Also mentions Ellison hanging with friends "from the UK." Rebold seems or feigns surprise

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Likewise, AUSA Rebold asks Miss Ramirez, Do you know #Shotti. Yes, only from Instagram. Not sure how this is helping the government's case

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info AUSA Rebold asks Miss Ramirez is she kept in contact with Ellison after he was arrested for kidnapping and robbing of #6ix9ine. Yes, in jail. She says Ellison was excited to be on social media, said he'd be famous for it. #2019

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Now Ellison's lawyer Deveraux Cannick is asking Miss Ramirez why like a Blood she switches c's to b's; she says that Snoop is a Crips rapper and Cardi B is a Blood. Miss Ramirez is not giving an inch

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Now Cannick asks Miss Ramirez if she talked to Ellison about what he said with his lawyer. Judge Engelmayer says, "Sustained." Cannick asks, Can we have a sidebar? Judge Engelmayer says, "No." He's itching to call the lunch hour. And still no #6ix9ine. #Chinatown

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Judge Engelmayer tells the jurors, Lunch hour very soon. Fasulo has no cross. AUSA Rebold says has a few for re-direct. Miss Ramirez says of testifying, It's very scary, I don't know what will come of this. Says Ellison might attack her. Disallowed.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info Judge Engelmayer tells everyone not to talk about the case until out of the courtroom (!). Will start again in an hour at 2:10. With #Tekashi #6ix9ine? #Periscope soon, thread resumes 2:05 pm... And see patreon.com/posts/30035100

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info And we're back - Judge Engelmayer tells gallery that there should be no murmuring during testimony. Jury not back one - one may be enjoying lunch too much. Inside tip: dumplings and soup for $4 on Mosco Street off Mulberry

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info AUSA Longyear said the next witness will take not only from the rest of today (to 4 pm), but also half of tomorrow. Drat- may have to miss the UN webcast of corrupt @AntonioGuterres fielding "questions" from hand picked state media scribes

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres "Your honor, the government calls Daniel Hernandez." He's in prison blues. Deputy Smallman just swore him in. It's on.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Q: Mr Hernandez, where were you born?
Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Q: how far did you go in school?
Like tenth grade.
When did you start living in federal custody? When did you start cooperating?
"The next day. The day after we were taken down."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Q: were you a member of a gang?
Yes. The Nine Trey Bloods.
Q: what sort of things did 9 Trey do?
Robberies, assaults, drugs...
Q: do you recognize anyone in court?
A: Anthony Ellison has a gray suit on. Mack has a brown suit on.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Where'd you go to school?
PS 59. Campos middle school. Legacy high school.
Did you work?
I started working at 13. My first job was at Youth Corps, for about 2 months. Didn't make a lot, so bussed tables with my brother. Then grocery store delivery boy 2 years

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres #6ix9ine: "I landed another bus boy job. Then I became a wrapper. Peter Rogers came into the store I worked in in Sept 2014 to buy tea and peanuts, asked me if I rapped. Said, You look cool. I made more like rock n' roll rap....

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Toured in Bratislava, Slovakia; Moscow...
For all those shows I made about $2 thousand profit. I did it just for the experience. It changed in Sept 2017. Filmed a music video in #BedStuy, 370 Madison.
Gov't exhibit 202 [Inner City Press has requested all exhibits]

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres It was called Gummo. G-U-M-M-O
I had signed a 20% management deal... Seiko Billy...
(starts rapping: in the hood... first use of N-word).
Billy is Nine Trey, so I asked him to provide members for the video. "I met him at the studio in Williamsburg."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres #6ix9ine: Brought Hennessy and at 370 Madison I met Shotti, he said, We with you little homie. Also brought a bunch of red bandannas. Met Pablo." Is shown photo and says, Shotti is Kifano Jordan

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Government played a song, LOUD. Now they are parsing the video, #6ix9ine pointing out all the guns in it, linking one to Shotti.
"Is that a real gun?"
"Yes."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres "What is a drum?"
"You add it to a gun. It carries an extra clip."
AUSA quoting lyrics using "N-word," as in "Uber N-word."
Now #6ix9ine is saying "N-word."
"Mister Hernandez, what is Gummo about?"
"It's a diss song, toward like somebody I don't get along with.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Trippie Redd was part of Five Nine Brims, Hernandez testifies.
"Did there come a time that Gummo was released on the Internet?"
Yes, it went viral. "Meaning, people shared it."
"I just put it up on YouTube and said, whatever happens, happens."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Hearsay: Shotti said, that little rainbow head knows that he doing.
"How did Kooda come about?"
"I knew I had a formula, to repeat it, the gang, what is the word for it, image, I would say, promote it, you know what I'm trying to say? That's what people like."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres "Before I changed my style of rap, I liked this kid called Kooda, I thought he was talented, so I named the song after him."
"Kooda was filmed in Brooklyn, intersection of Fulton Avenue and Utica, near Smurf Village. It is Nine Trey members who live there."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Now government plays (parts of) Kooda, again very loud.
6ix9ine testifying about the Big Homie in Smurf Village (!)
Government pulls up transcript of Kooda lyrics, Exh 609t.
Here's link: google.com/search?q=kooda…

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres "If you replace N-word with 'people,' that's what I meant. No one understood how rainbow hair could be with the Bloods... Fifty means to be on point, to be aware.
Objection: leading.
Sustained.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Q: How did you come up with drafting those lyrics? Based on your time with Nine Trey, did you learn some of their lingo?"
"Come again?"
Lingo.
Judge Engelmayer says the jurors want their mid-afternoon break. 15 min - blog story coming patreon.com/posts/30038098

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres And we're back, last #6ix9ine segment of the day. AUSA asks, "When did you become a member of Nine Trey?"
November 2017.
Were you initiated?
No. You had to shoot your 31...
Story until now: patreon.com/posts/30040284

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres 6ix9ine: to be initiated you had to do work. Like, cutting someone's face.
Mr Hernandez, but you were not initiated, right.
Right. I just had to keep making hits and giving financial support to the gang. Equipping with guns. Like, so they could buy guns

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres So what did you get from Nine Trey?
"I would say my career. Credibility. Protection. All of the above."
Trey Way was something what we could market.
Q: Could you demonstrate the handshake?
A: I need two people, but...

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Now #6ix9ine is shaking hands with himself, standing up so the jury can see.
AUSA: "Who taught you that?"
"I'm doing it with Shotti a lot."
"The nine with your index finger and your thumb." Nuke taught me.
Photo. "I think I was just getting the hang of it."

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres "We show up at a strip club in Brooklyn. Angels strip club, I don't want to be quoted." [There is a court reporter.] I wasn't making the sign right. He pulled me to the side. Yo, like, if you're going to be Nine Trey you have to make the sign right.

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Mr. Hernandez, did you ever see Mr. Ellison make the sign?
"Yes."
Cuing up another video.
"Your honor, there's a little technical issue."
Engelmayer: Ok, very good.
"Just show the witness the opening frame of Exhibit 802."
Pauses at 7 seconds on the B-word

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres "Mr Hernandez if you could identify the people in the photograph."
"I don't know the guy in the LA hat."
"And what is Mel Murda wearing?"
"Cincinnati Reds... He's the grandfather, I mean godfather, of the Nine Trey Bloods."
a/k/a Mel Matrix...

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres A: "Does 9 Trey have a leadership structure?"
Yes. There was a street line up and a prison line up.
A: How did the prison line up work?
"My understanding is that with the prison line up there was a higher up to get anything sanctioned on the street."
Objection!

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Overruled. Now 6ix9ine says he spoke to Frank White and Magoo. "They could say who had ranking and who didn't."
Q: Turning to the street line up, were there ranks?
A: There was a godfather... twins... Five star general...

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Who occupied the positions?
"Mel Murda was the godfather. Right under was Shotti... Seiko Billy was a five star."'
Judge Engelmayer: I'm looking for a stopping point. (He said it will end at 4 pm, in 5 minutes.) Story soon - after the lawyers' arguments if any

@sdnylive @Akademiks @SSartini @Kamila75psg__ @TMZLive @revolttv @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres #6ix9ine: "Shotti told me if you take care of the people behind the wall, they'll take care of you."
Judge Engelmayer says lunch will be ordered in for jurors tomorrow, to save time.
"Counsel I'll see you tomorrow." It's done for the day. Last story on this coming