Ok - now at arraignment for catfishing of SAKOYA BLACKWOOD, charged with trying to extort CEO-1 - threatened to release sexually explicit photographs and communications. Who is CEO-1?? Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
Judge Furman: We're here for arraignment and bail appeal.
Blackwood: I plead not guilty.
Judge: Have you notified Victim-1?
AUSA Bracewell: Yes, Victim-1's lawyer...We've seized laptops and tablets.
AUSA: There was a post arrest interview, it was recorded on video. She then invoked... Her messages were saved on Google.
Federal Defender: There are 12 seized devices.
Judge: Motions by Nov 18. US by Dec 8. Next here on Nov 22, 11 am. Now on bail.
[It is US appealing]
AUSA: She used different identities...
AUSA: She uses VOIP, her cell is in her mother's name, the IP address in her brother's. She has no legal status. She was in Californis representing herself as a pediatrician
AUSA: She was operating off the grid in a unique way. She is a flight risk. We are asking to seal our exhibits.
AUSA: All she needs to continue is an Internet connection.
FD: We agree with Judge Willis that she should be released. Pre-Trial miswrote their report. She is a domestic violence victim.
FD: She gets child support.
Judge: What about the Brooklyn address on her NYC ID?
FD: It's a mail drop. It's related to intimate partner violence, to receive confidential mail.
Judge: If she lives in The Bronx, why is the mail drop in Brooklyn?
FD: Brooklyn is unknown to her abuser. She is trying to get a green card. She has no ties in Jamaica.
Judge: It seems her family either didn't know she was getting mail in other people's names or didn't care.
FD: Making fake profiles is easy. The US does it to entrap [short eyes]. She didn't use TOR.
[Judge Furman knows of TOR from Schulte #Wikileaks#Vault7 trial
Judge: If convicted, she would be deported to Jamaica. Here's my ruling: there's an overwhelming case for detention. The incentive to flee, inclination to impersonate, etc. She will be detained.
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DDC beat: Now a 2017 civil case filed against Netanyahu and David Friedman, plaintiffs' lawyers shouting about "atrocities." At this point, after the Nestle decision, the remaining defendants are US-based, including an accounting firm. Inner City Press is on it
Defense counsel says plaintiffs have been citing David Duke and HRW, "we run a school, this is a lot for us to put up with." Case was delayed by a plaintiffs' lawyer dying. But plaintiffs' counsel points out the Nestle case took 16 years...
DDC Judge Walton says he will not allow another amended complaint, but instead will try to rule quickly on the motions and "see where we go from there." Then a lawyer from Indiana says he misidentified who he represents. Plaintiffs' counsel says they are offended
Now in referenced money laundering case US v Rakhmankulov, ranging from Uzbekistan through China to Iran, mucho Toronto Dominion / TD Bank verdict coming, Inner City Press ran & will live tweet, thread below
We seem to be waiting for defense counsel, whose closing argument was only yesterday afternoon. A woman in Uzbek garb is crying in the gallery. Can she tell, based on how fast verdict came?
Rahmankulov is out on bail, now sitting in gallery. No Marshals here - yet. There would be, if US ready to request remand to prison.
OK - now Dillon Jordan is pleading guilty before @sdnylive Judge Cronan, says he has PTSD and dis-associative disorder. "I do as many sessions as I can." What is the plea deal? Inner City Press will live tweet - thread below
Judge Cronan: Tell me about your employment for the last ten years.
Dillon Jordan: I worked in film. Now in construction (?)
Judge: Addictions?
Jordan: None.
Judge: Alcohol in the past 48 hours?
Jordan: None. I'm nervous.
Judge Cronan: I find you competent to plead guilty. Now Mr. Jordan I will explain the rights you are giving up...
Now EDNY case of US v. Destin Burks - he is in the SHU [Special Housing Unit] after allegedly assaulting a Corrections Officer. They have not produced him; Marshals refuse to transport him, outside contractor only. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
After Burks allegedly assault a Corrections Officer in MDC Brooklyn, BOP moved him to FDC Philadelphia. But Marshall will not transport him to Cadman Plaza. Initial cases were gun use on Staten Island. He's written a letter to the judge...
Now at arraignment of Molotov cocktail duo, both sitting un jury box with US Marshals. Judge Cronan mentions a Chowdhry civil case he has, bandwidth sale. Inner City Press will live tweet. Thread below
Co-defendant Mendez, incarcerated frim Day 1, doesn't look happy. CoVID mask not covering nose. Pleads not guilty as well.
Ukraine Molotovs cited again. One placed under a dark Acura in The Bronx on June 6, 2022.
2 supporters, on info & belief Bangladeshi or South Asian, enter. Mendez' significant other not here.
OK - now in Magistrates court for US v Greg Gumicio of Yoga To The People, for tax fraud. Somehow he has a free Federal Defender. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread beloe
DOJ says Gumicio made $1.6 million in cash, stacks on St Marks Place. He has sworn he is eligible in a sealed affidavit
Inner City Press win orders unsealing financial affidavits of Avenatti, a Honduras narco (Tigre Bonilla) and Dr. CRUCIANI (RIP). US is agreeing to bail - $1 million bond. But he has publicly paid lawyer?!?