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OK we're back: Day 3 of #6ix9ine in SDNY trial of US v. Nuke Mack & Harv Ellison. After jury saw video of Harv's carjacking and kidnapping of Tekashi how will the defense cross examine him? patreon.com/posts/30068769 All-day thread below

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Govt introduces text message from Harv. Apparently #6ix9ine will be interpreting them for the jury. But first he's explain why he publicized his own kidnapping: "I knew Harv had a video so I wanted to get mines out there first."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL As jury is shown video of Shotti's car in front of 370 Madison, #6ix9ine on the witness stand stretches and yawns. Unclear yet how he'll react under cross-examination by the lawyers for Harv and Nuke.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Judge Engelmayer rules that Gov Exhibit 808 can only be considered by the jury against Harv, not Nuke. Could be important, since it involves checking out a .380

Now #6ix9ine answers that he won't interpret or verify the .380, says Shotti used a small handgun.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now #6ix9ine is asked about the phrase "on deck." Will he use it in a sentence.

"Got the Henny on deck," he says. "Like in the club." He uses the word lingo.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now with jury out of the room, Judge Engelmayer tells the government to show how it would question #6ix9ine about what Shotti told him in Santa Ana, California about "the incident at Smurf Village" back in Brooklyn. Now #6ix9ine being taken out of court for 10 min

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL We're back and Judge Engelmayer says he is "sustaining my own objection" because #6ix9ine is not answering the questions AUSA Longyear is asking about how the "prison line up" decided who would run the operations at Smurf Village in Brooklyn. Next...

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now #6ix9ine says he offered $50,000 for someone to rob Harv. This is after Harv car-jacked and kidnapped him:

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now #6ix9ine says that on Power 105.1 he denounced them, saying that "Trey Way is a fraud... dirty Bloods." When he says he knows this would make him a target, Judge Engelmayer tells the jury to disregard it.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now a wiretapped call with Mel Murda reviewing #6ix9ine's "interview" on Power 105.1 where he said Trey Way was a fraud. "He must be on drugs... You gonna go on social media with it? I feel kinda depressed."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Wiretap call continues: "We made you who you was so you could help us with our situation. We gave you life. You wouldn't be shit without Trey!"

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL AUSA Longyear: Have you heard of the term dry snitching?

#6ix9ine: it's a term on the street, snitching without snitching, it's like -

Judge Engelmayer: I don't think we need to hear any more on this answer. But what was said is received.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Who is Jim Jones?
#6ix9ine: He's a retired rapper.
Q: Is he a member of Nine Trey?
A: Yes.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Next call: "Every time you look at it on YouTube or WorldStar you see Shotti with this shit... He didn't get enough money for that. Now his shows all canceled. He ain't a gang member no more.

TMZ wanna talk to the N on Monday.

We don't need to be on no TMZ

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL "You better stalk that shortie. No security gonna wanna work for him. He gonna have to stay in your house."

"Security of New York can't run around with guns, right?"

"Unless they ex cops."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL #6ix9ine is perched in witness chair listening to this wiretapped call: "You ain't never put no work in. So who the f*ck are you? We made that little N, we can break that little N."
"We gonna paralyze him."
#6ixNine put his leans his chin on his palm, slouches.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now AUSA Longyear asked #6ix9ine about his cooperation agreement. He told the government he brokered a 1 kilo of heroin deal into Bushwick around August of 2017.

Also sold heroin and marijuana in 2015. Got "five days of community service."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL #6ix9ine: I punched a guy in Times Square, with Shotti.

And in Houston I grabbed a fan by his jacket. The case is still pending, I think.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Mr. Hernandez, have you been sentenced?
A: No.
Q: What is the maximum you face?
A: Life.
Q: What is your understanding of a 5K letter?
A: it has the good bad and the ugly about me. The Judge gets it, and can go under the mandatory minimum. Like, time served.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL #6ix9ine: without a 5K1 letter, the minimum I could served would be 47 years.
Government: No further questions.
First question on cross-examination: you are testifying to get the 5K letter or to help the government?
#6ix9ine: Little bit of both.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now Nuke Mack's lawyer Alex Huot is emphasizing that #6ix9ine's attempted murder was with Shotti, not with his client. "You wanted to take part, right?"
"Right."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Cross Exam Q: After the robbery in Times Square where you video taped all the guys in the lobby, Mel Murda and them, Shotti threw the gun in your lap and you said you're too famous to hold a gun?

#6ix9ine: No. I said I'm too famous to get out the car with a gun.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Cross Exam Q: "What does trolling mean to you?

#6ix9ine: Showing a little bit of my personality.... I wasn't trolling, I made a video saying f*ck Chief Keef.

Q: Then you ordered a shooting?
A: Correct.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Cross-exam Q: If you get time served you'd get out at the beginning of next year, correct?
#6ix9ine: Correct.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: You're not being prosecuted for shooting a gun in the Barclays Center, correct?
#6ixNine: Correct.
Now Mack's lawyer is playing video of Tekashi bragging after the Barclay's shooting. Inner City Press uploaded yesterday:

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1174492457448480768

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: So you were mocking them for ducking when fired on?
A: Correct.
Q: Do you think it is surprising that someone ducks when a gun is fired at them?
#6ix9ine (pauses) No, not surprising.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Did you says, "I've had so many Instagrams, bro, I'm the king of getting my Instagrams deleted"?
#6ix9ine: Was that an interview? I have no recollection of saying that.
Q: Did you ever do a podcast with Adam22? Can I show you a transcript?
(showing)

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Have you had 11 Instagram accounts?
A: Less than that.
Q: Were some deleted?
A: Yes.
Q: Were you ever told why?
A: No.
Q: Did you ever say, "I'm just a troll who knows how to rap"?
Another transcript. Angie Martinez.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now Mack's lawyer Huot asks about 2 interviews on the Breakfast Club. #6ix9ine called the DJs "Blood." He says he did it because "that's how Shotti talks and it rubbed off on me."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: You still have a lot of fans?
A: I hope so.
Q: You put out a record after you were in jail, Dummy Boy?
A: Yes.
Q: Were you popular in jail?
Objection.
Judge Engelmayer: Sustained - irrelevant.
Q: Did you sign autographs for guards?
A: Not guards, a nurse.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Jail is still lonely for you?
A: What do you mean, lonely? Yes, jail is really lonely.
Q: Let's talk about the Mets game with Shotti and Jorge... Somebody told Shotti that Ro had been robbed?
A: Correct.
Judge Engelmayer give #6ix9ine a "comfort break."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now Nuke Mack's lawyer is cross examining #6ix9ine about Gummo, how many Nine Trey hand signals are in it. "You wanted it perfect, right?"
A: "I want all of my music to be perfect."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Do you have any idea how many people are members of the Bloods?
A: Hundreds of thousands.
Q: How about Nine Trey.
A: I don't know, I'm not a statistic.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: The kid whose jacket you grabbed in Houston, afterward you took a photo with him with both of you making the Nine Trey sign?
#6ix9ine: Can you show me the picture?
Mack's lawyer Huot: "I don't think I have that one with me."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Judge Engelmayer: Mister Smallman tells me the lunch has just arrived. Have a good lunch. Don't discuss the case.
AUSA Longyear says since #6ix9ine is on cross examination, the case agents moving him won't discuss the case with them.
Usually the do? Back at 2 pm

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL We're back. Now Harv Ellison's lawyer Deveraux Cannick starts in cross-examining #6ix9ine - cuts to the chase, his Instagram post: "Someone please snatch my chain for my project can get more publicity."
Q: Did you post this prior to [the car-jacking]?

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Harv's lawyer Deveraux: Do you recall publishing a video pretending you were dead?
#6ix9ine: Can you show me?
For now, a private viewing.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL #6ix9ine says he doesn't remember uploading the video but he does remember being "filmed in that position."

Deveraux wants the video in evidence but the government objects to the commentary that accompanies it.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Deveraux Cannick: Part of the role of my client, Anthony Ellison, was to collect money for you, correct?
#6ix9ine: Correct. (denies memory of Harv collecting for him at a strip club.)

Cannick: in month after Gummo, how much money did you make?
A: Like 60,000

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Cannick: So Trey Way Entertainment was a legitimate corporation?
#6ix9ine: I would not say so. I didn't see no paper work.
Cannick: Didn't you just say Shotti and the others had tried-
#6ix9ine: Tried!
Like, I could try a 3-pointer and not make it.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Before Gummo, what was your genre?
#6ix9ine: Like a rockish rap.

Q"Did you tell others to suck your body part?"
A: Correct.
But you just said you had to ponder it.
A: I don't know what ponder means.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Do you recall ever challenging Trippie Redd to fight?
A: No.
Q: Casanova?
A: No.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL (then #6ix9ine says he did make a challenge to fight to his best friend. But didn't fight.
Q: But he wasn't always your best friend?
A: Before I met him, he couldn't be my friend."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: what about when Snow followed you [from the T-Mobile store]? Did you call Harv?
A: Correct. But Mel Murda came first.
Q: But then Harv came?
A: Correct.

Q: And in the LA airport?
A: Harv had been promoted to be my road manager.
Q: And around the Super Bowl?

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: And around the All-Star Game, people bothered you? Some gang members were made you didn't check in? And Harv squashed that situation?
#6ix9ine: No. It was me, Harv, his girlfriend, a light skinned chick taller than me. I believe she has a daughter or something.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Wasn't Harv mad at Shotti for getting you banned from places like the Barclays Center?
A: No.
Q: By then you were one of the hottest artists in the country
#6ix9ine: In the world.
Q: And you were proud of that.
A: It's something to be proud of.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: You didn't tell people that you knew what the media wanted?
A: Not that comes to my memory, no.
Q: On July 21, 2018 you were just on the verge of releasing a song, you were kidnapped and robbed on the same day?
A: No!

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: What day did it happen?
#6ix9ine: July 22.. it was like 5 am..
Q: so this alleged robbery happened hours before the release, correct?
A: Correct.
[Note: #6ix9ine is taking swigs of bottled water during this cross examination, then leaning back in his chair.]

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: So when they supposedly robbed you, Harv and Sha were not wearing masks, right?
A: Right. No masks.
Q: In fact, according to you, Jorge went out and spoke with them who struck the car you were in. Yes. Q: Did you see a gun?
#6ix9ine: Yes, almost immediately.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: You can drive, right?
#6ix9ine: I don't have a driver's license.
Q: But you have driven many times.
A: A handful of times.
Q: What's a handful?
A: Like six times. Two handfuls.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: So you were repeatedly hit by Sha?
#6ix9ine: Yes. To the face and nose. A lot.
Q: How many times? Like ten?
A: Like that.
Q: For how long?
A: Five to twenty seconds.
Q: Sha's a big guy?
A: Bigger than me.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: Do you recall proffer sessions with the prosecutors?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you tell them you got punched in the face and nose?
Judge Engelmayer: The jury's coffee and snacks have arrived. Let's take a break. [Thread to continue in 10 minutes.]

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL We've back. Ellison's lawyer Cannick asks, "They didn't come after you with the car, did they?"
#6ix9ine: Correct.
Q: And a car just happened to be there, right?
A: Correct.
Q: Yesterday you said you ordered the guy to drive
A: No, I said "Drive the f*cking car."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now Cannick asked #6ix9ine if he even looked at his jewelry in his daughter's Pampers bag before giving it to Sha. No, he did not. But says it was worth $360,000: Rolex, Jigsaw chain, four rings.
Q: How do you know how much it cost?
#6ix9ine asks, "Do we have it?"

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Cannick asks, "Did you have the items insured?"
A: No.
Q: How much did you tell Angie Martinez they were worth? A million dollars?
A: Correct.
Q: That wasn't the only thing you lied to Angie Martinez about, right?
A: Right - I lied about jumping out of car

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: How did you get to be on Angie Martinez' show?
#6ix9ine: She asked me previous to the robbery.
Q: in the interview you said you're the fastest man alive and you could make a movie out of this
A: I don't recall saying that.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Cannick asks #6ix9ine, do you remember telling Angie Martinez, "I could make a move outta this and it's be better than NWA."
A: I said more than that-
Judge Engelmayer: Just answer the question.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Cannick: With Angie Martinez you embellished things?
#6ix9ine: I don't know what embellish means.

Cannick: you told Angie your movie coulda been better than N.W.A., right?
A: Yes.

Cannick: you were just driving to the Park Slope area, without knowing where?

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL #6ix9ine is done - meaning, off the stand. Now he just has to wait to (hope to) get the 5K1 cooperator's letter.

Now up: NYPD Officer Lebron from 79th Precinct, saying "Mr Hernandez came in bleeding from the face, said he got hit with a hard object."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Officer Lebron describing #6ix9ine's FaceTime call with "a female who said, Danny, Danny, how are you." He said he was OK, asked where driver Jorge Rivera was.
(By the way, where *is* he?)

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Officer Lebron accompanied Mr Hernandez in the ambulance to Kings County Hospital, hearing him say, "I thought I was going to die, I thought I was never going to see my daughter again."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Now omnipresent CJA defense lawyer Calvin Scholar starts cross-examination of Officer Lebron. Full disclosure: Inner City Press covered Scholar's defense of #BedStuy alleged slip and fall scam driver before SDNY Judge Sidney Stein.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Previous mystery solved: next government witness is Jorge Rivera, #6ix9ine's driver a/k/a Onstar. Judge Engelmayer tells juror even if they se habla espanol, it's the English interpretation that controls. Vamos a ver.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Jorge Rivera says he is from Mexico, came to Brooklyn via North Carolina. At first he worked in a tire shop, until February 2018. Then became a driver for a car service.

He met #6ix9ine because someone hired him to drive them to a video shoot.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL AUSA Longyear: Prior to this day, had you ever heard of Daniel Hernandez or Tekashi Six Nine?
Jorge Rivera: No.
Q: Had you ever heard his music?
A: No.

Now Rivera identifies Shotti, as #6ix9ine's manager

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Q: And what as Ro's relations with Mr. Hernandez?
A: they were friends, they were together a good amount...

After the day he was kidnapped, quite a bit.
[Clearly, Rivera is not going to share the defense's skepticism of the car-jack's promotional timing]

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @revolttv @XXL @Akademiks @TMZLive @Power106LA @HotNewHipHop @TIDAL Sorry for the pause - 2nd #SDNY uproar. Yesterday it was audio, today video (seemingly shot yesterday, most are saying in the overflow courtroom 506). No trial tomorrow; jurors get their own lunch on Monday : ) stories soon and here patreon.com/posts/30089542