Thread by @innercitypress

OK - Larry Ray trial has FBI showing Drury forced prostitution funds to Gordon Ray (then to NC Dems); see Dem dip #JohnListGone patreon.com/posts/64403390 & patreon.com/posts/64451842
(blues below). Inner City Press is covering the case & will live tweet, thread below

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1507740632315482130

Jury is shown chart that Felicia Rosario (at the time unemployed, but transferring Drury "escort" money for Larry Ray who had no bank account) sending $38,000 to Gordon Ray from 1 account, $15,000 from another. Gordan Ray then gave $5000 to candidate Lowell Simon

Assistant US Attorney: How much to Kenneth Mumma transfer to Isabella Pollok?
FBI witness: $40,000.
AUSA: We now offer into evidence records of GoDaddy. Whose account is this?
FBI witness: Lawrence Ray.

AUSA: What is the subtotal amount?
FBI agent: $946,000.
AUSA: No further questions.
Judge Liman: Cross?
Federal Defender: The accounts you analyzed, they were chosen by the prosecutors, right?
FBI agent: Yes.

Federal Defender: And you have no idea why these funds were being transferred, right?
FBI Agent: Yes.
[Re-direct]
AUSA: Tell the jury why you call these cash deposits.
FBI: From the ATM ticket.

Next witness is from GoDaddy Premier Services team
AUSA: Do you know the Larry Ray account?
GoDaddy: Yes.
AUSA: How many domain names did Larry Ray have?
GoDaddy witness: 8,000. I spoke with him every day. Also with Isabella and Felicia.

Audio is played of the GoDaddy account executive telling Larry Ray how he lost out on the domain name "Manipulate [dot] com."
Voice: It's a good one-name domain.
[In court] AUSA: Who often did you have conversations like this?
GoDaddy: Often.

After more mind-numbing testimony from the GoDaddy domain name sales rep, Judge Liman declares a break. Thread will continue. Here was vlog on the way in:

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1509160650379075597

[They're back. There was delay because headphones system is not working for jurors. But there's a speaker]
Audio is played of Larry Ray and the GoDaddy sales rep. The prosecution's point seems to be that Ray didn't make much money selling domain names

[Cross-examination]
Federal Defender: So Mr. Ray only sold 12 or so domain names over 5 years?
GoDaddy: About that.
Federal Defender: For example, if in a few years crypto is no longer a thing, the value of crypto domain names will go down, right?
GoDaddy: Yes.

Federal Defender: Larry Ray registered the domain name activelifestyle dot com, right?
GoDaddy witness Kyle: Yes.
[Next witness]
Dr. Julie Gonzalez, was in medical school with Felicia Rosario.
[Photo shown of the two, and others, on Columbia steps]

Assistant US Attorney: Did you hear from Felicia Rosario in 2013?
Dr. Gonzalez: She called and said someone in her family was in trouble. She was vague. She asked for $20,000. We met in a coffee shop near Mount Sinai Hospital for an hour or an hour and a half.

Dr. Gonzalez: Felicia's hair was disheveled and I noticed a bruise. She wouldn't say why her brother needed the money.
[Cross examination]
Federal Defender: You had no idea about the cause of the bruise that you saw, right?
Dr. Gonzelez: I did not.

Next witness: Carlos Pagan, doorman at The Waterford on 2d Avenue.
Federal Defender objects to his identification of the Rosarios.
Pagan: They were staying with Mr. Larry. The one in the middle came down and told me Larry sent her down to have sex with me.

AUSA: What did you say, when she said Larry Ray wanted her to have sex with you outside?
Pagan: I said, Young lady, you need to go back upstairs. And she did.
[Note: this is not was Liberia "first son" Fomba Sirleaf said, nor hedge funder patreon.com/posts/64280088

Judge Liman has given the jurors their lunch break. He remains with counsel arguing motions in limine and some audio file not yet part of the record. Thread will continue.

They're back. Next witness is Yalitza Rosario. US shows jury video of Larry Ray throwing Felicia Rosario to the ground, with Yalitza present

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1503801563239915526

Now jury sees Yalitza and Santos Rosario woken up by Larry Ray's loud reveille alarm.
AUSA: What's Larry's dad's name?
Yalitza Rosario: Gordon Ray.
[Who got $50,000 from Felicia & funneled at least $5000 to NC candidate Lowell Simon who paid 11K to Talia Ray ]

Yalitza Rosario still on the witness stand. Describes long walk to Wal-Mart from Pinehurst NC house. Then, at North Central Bronx Hospital - where Larry Ray contacted her doctors. Seems doubtful cross-examination of this witness will begin today.

Update: Direct examination of Yalitza Rosario ended abruptly. So now some cross-examination:
Federal Defender: Ms. Rosario, you thought about taking your own life before you met Larry, didn't you?
Yalitza Rosario: Yes.

At 3:59, Judge Liman lets the jury go for the day. AUSA says next witnesses include another agent, and an IRS employee. Jury may have Friday off, with defense case Monday. Online, more #JohnListGone like patreon.com/posts/64451842

Judge Liman is ruling that summary charts will come into evidence, says the Larry Ray came from the beginning in February 20[2]0 was described to him as complex "and the trial has not disappointed."

Defense argues that an "advice of counsel" defense should be allowed.
Judge Liman: So the argument is, if you believe someone owes you money, you can traffic them across state lines to engage in prostitution?
FD: We're arguing with regard to the receipt of money.

Federal Defender: We have a witness who would see that money received to recompense a physical tort [like Ray's claimed damage] is not taxable.
[Judge asks to be sent his declaration.] Adjourned. Later: more #JohnListGone: patreon.com/posts/64403390