Thread by @innercitypress

OK - #OneCoin trial finally restarting after much milling around in the courtroom. Judge Ramos was already asking about the verdict form. But there's more to come. Yesterday's stories innercitypress.com/sdny26onecoini… & patreon.com/posts/31542587 Below, thread

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess On the stand, Special Agent "Kroll," reading out for AUSA Folly a series of e-amails involving Gilbert Armenta.
Q: So who is this email to Armenta from?
A: Mark S. Scott.
Q: And this one?
A: From Mark Scott to Ruja.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Q: What did Scott write?
A: That he sent the invoice for their new project.
Q: And what did Ruja reply?
A: About money from Singapore, and how to proceed. Then Mark said, "Need to meet with you personally... about bankability."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess A: Then Mark said he needed to meet twice with Ruja, with time in between to prepare. He asked where she stayed in London.
Q: This one, January 21, 2016, can you read it?
A: Mark Scott wrote: "I'm ready to go immediately, you need to approve the budget of $400,00

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess AUSA: Can you show Exhibit 1041 to the witness first? Now publish that to the jury, and zoom in on the bottom of the email first. From Mark Scott to Ruja. Special Agent Kroll, could you read it?
A: "Ruja, I have setting it up, off-shore.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Special Agent (con't) - "Send it to my law firm, it would have to stay there for a few weeks to not raise noise. Your name never appears, all shares held by a trustee."
AUSA: And there's an email, Any favorite names to use in Europe?

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess A: Ruja wrote, "RavenR is how I run my family office." Then Mark Scott replied, "I will give all companies very sterile names, nothing to do with sales or O.C.. You can change them later."
[Note: these emails don't look good for Scott: guilty knowledge. But x-xam

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Next: Mark Scott was applying for a CIBC bank account in February 2016.

Inner City Press: Are Canadian regulators, and the US Fed, aware? What have they done?

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Special Agent: Mark wrote to Ruja, "The bank we do business with has branches in Hong Kong and Liechtenstein... and only limited information on beneficial owners, not listing you at all."

Inner City Press: Ah, Liechtenstein, always virtue signaling at the UN...

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Now AUSA Folly is having the Special Agent read out loud long Word Press web site addresses.

Scott's lawyer Arlo Devlin-Brown asks for a sidebar. Presumably not on URLs.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Now after the whispered sidebar, Judge Ramos sustains Arlo Devlin-Brown's objections, "without prejudice," tells AUSA Folly to move on.
He asks about a transaction.
A: Scott received the money through City National Bank of Florida, from Int'l Marketing Services

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Now the Special Agent's testimony - or reading - turns to Ireland (hoping to hear more on this) and to "Deutsche Bank, Cayman Islands."

Inner City Press: Oh, them again. #DeutscheBank.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Mark Scott started to get bank emails demanding to know source of funds of Irina Dilkinska.
Mark Scott responded: "You are asking far more than other banks I am dealing with. I am an equity partner in 35th largest firm."

Inner City Press: So he used Locke Lord

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Agent reads, Mark to Armenta: Hi Gilbert. Ruja asked me to discuss future process with you.
AUSA: Email from Ruja to Scott and Armenta. Can you read it?
Agent: Ruja wrote, "I spoke to both of you. If any issues, use the secure line to talk about this."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Mark Scott's lawyer Arlo Devlin-Brown asks for a sidebar.
Judge Ramos says, It's 11, let's take a break.

With jury out, Arlo asks if US will be putting up a exhibit.
AUSA Dimase: Mark Scott was sent a message, "OneCoin is a scam." That is not prejudice under 403.

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Now to the jury: what Scott was told about #OneCoin being a fraud, while he kept moving money for Ruja.
With the jury out, Scott's lawyer Arlo Devlin-Brown said he would not stipulate to the authenticity of the document: "This is not a good document for Mr Scott."

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Now Judge Ramos cuts in: it's now 12:45 so we'll take a break.

Inner City Press running to check another @SDNYLIVE trial, where the US Attorney's office is said to be running into problems with venue. Could that be Scott's (last) defense? Thread will continue

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess So Mark Scott was informed of a City of London investigation into Ruja Ignatova, OneCoin & RavenR.

AUSA Folly has said that Scott's lawyer will have some time to cross examine this Agent today - that is, before 2:30 - but there'll be no other witnesses today

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess It's not clear that AUSA Folly is going to leave Scott's lawyer any time today to cross examine the Special Agent, including on when Mark Scott was shown "OneCoin as a scam." Meanwhile, here's Inner City Press fast story on the venue case innercitypress.com/sdny1venueaiye…

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess Mark Scott's lawyers want to exclude the prosecutors from their arguments to Judge Ramos for a subpoena concerning a Fenera Fund investment with an "extremely affluent" person in Hong Kong, saying that it reveals their strategy

@MatthewLeeICP @sdnylive @widell_ari @JamieJBartlett @Svrakata @ezCoinAccess This lawyers' argument is about a Mark Scott / Fenero loans to CryptoReal's Martin Brydenback (Bribenback?) for an oil field, to be paid with $60 million - and one OneCoins! A Hong Kong "doctor" also involved.

AUSA Dimase snarks, "Lot of doctors in this case"