Now Mason Rothschild on witness stand, about "this new #NFT#Web3 space." Inner City Press is covering the Hermes / #MetaBirkin case and will live tweet, thread below
Jury is shown #NFT of "floatees" as VIP ticket in Miami. Describes designing F-1 helmet for race in #AbuDhabi, says the Empty Quarter is there.
Wag: What NFT would #MBS use?Bonesaw in partnership with UN @AntonioGuterres, brothers in censorship
Now Mason brags about Weirdo 4100, sold 10,000 at .08 ETH on OpenSea - "it's like Mister Potatohead."
Note: Corporate lawyers staring at video monitors. Somehow reminiscent of Tekashi #6ix9ine, also @SDNYLIVE
Now a sidebar about Hermes-branded rocket. Mason slumps down in witness chair. Story later on InnerCityPress.com
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OK - now bail hearing on sex abusing doctor Hadden. He's been convicted and his victims want him to (finally) to go jail, pending sentencing. Inner City Press is covering the case innercitypress.com/sdny41straussh… patreon.com/posts/76659391
and will live tweet, thread below
Hadden's Federal Defender: He's done a lot of work on himself, with journaling... They offered him a deal & he took it. He stopped practicing as a doctor. His therapist calls him home-bound, even before the state guilty plea. He is publicly shamed in a way few are
Hadden's Federal Defender: He was on every TV broadcast. Shame does have a deterrent effect. OK, they found suspicious data on his wife's laptop. There was a capacity to mirror, a virtual drive like every Windows operating system. Also searches for porn...
OK- now at sentencing of mortgage fraudster Hild, which starts an hour late as Judge Abrams has a (death by fentanyl) trial. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
Hild's lawyer contests loss amount, says it "may well be zero." Judge rejects argument. Says loss may be over $69 million, 24 level enhancement.
Judge: The guidelines will be higher than the sentencing I am considering. But I am imposing the 2 levels for obstruction of justice. He made false statements under oath.
Hild's lawyer: Yes he got over $1 million, but it was for his work.
The Iran death squad case upcoming in @sdnylive Mag court, for targeting Masih Alinejad, Inner City Press exclusively first covered in July innercitypress.com/sdny363fifthca… and will live tweet this co-defendant Rafat Amirov too, thread below
AUSA Hellman, who handled July case against Khalid Mehdiyev that Inner City Press exclusively covered, has just come into court (as another defendant said, sobbong, that he was raped in jail). Iran case next...
Rafat Amirov is in court, with interpreter. He is getting a US taxpayer funded lawyer. Says Russian not his first language.
OK- in death penalty case of US v. Sayfullo Saipov, jury being called into courtroom before first full day of deliberations. In Jan 25 short session they questioned if right charges were brought for West Side Highway deaths. Inner City Press will live tweet, below
All rise - jury entering!
Judge Broderick: Good morning. In response to your questions from yesterday... I refer you to page 12 of the jury instructions, on what is and is not evidence. You pass judgment on the evidence....
Judge Broderick: As to traveling to ISIS in Syria and getting an ID card, I cannot answer a hypothetical question. It should not enter into your deliberations what might happen if you find the defendant not guilty. I know there are other questions you have...
OK - in death penalty trial of Sayfullo Saipov for killing 8 on West Side Highway bike path, now Judge Broderick reading his legal instructions to the jurors. Inner City Press is covering the case (to the end) and will live tweet as appropriate, thread below
Judge Broderick: Murder under NY law must be proved, in counts 1 to 8. [Definition read out from McKinney's Consolidated Laws] Under NY law, it is not necessary that the person who dies be the same person whose death was intended...
Judge Broderick emerges and takes the bench at 5:40 pm. He says he's sending the six alternates home - and says the 12 "real" jurors indicated they weren't ready to leave for the evening yet. "But I believe that's imminent."
Now tells alternates to come tomorrow
OK- now in SDNY Magistrates Court, multi-defendant Upper Manhattan drug takedown. 1st up: US v Paulino, proposed release to apt on Audubon Ave, "four blocks from the set," judge says, denying release. More defendants in holding cell
Now case of US v Nadim Ahmed, white collar crime with complaint still sealed. US releasing him on $2 million bond partially secured by house in Old Westbury, co-signer is in court, not secret. So why are Sam Bankman-Fried's co-signers still sealed?
Back to the "takedown." Now up, US v. Abreu.Arrested yesterday 6:30 pm. Three women in gallery. Drugs and guns charged - so, presumption case. US seeks derention. Abreu seeks release. Bail argument to follow. US says Abreu made 15 sales to NYPD undercover