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Matthew Russell Lee for/as Inner City Press covers SDNY, UN Gate, banks & IMF. books https://t.co/xHL0pGID4n https://t.co/VTEqaLISDB
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Oct 10 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, charge conference before closings next week. Inner City Press which reported on & from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG @AntonioGuterres incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP Paribas' lawyer: There must be one main perpetrator. The alleged tortious conduct all occurred in Sudan, outside the--
Judge: The objection is overruled.
BNP's lawyer: We do not think the Sudan government can be held liable for indirect agents
Oct 9 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyers citing Janjaweed Musa Hilal. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG
@AntonioGuterres
incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP's lawyer: I'm going to read you two sentences, Defense Exhibit S-i.
Judge: A report by the Department of State, human rights.
BNP's lawyer: "Darfur continued to be a scene of humanitarian abuses, the government only disarmed the Fur and non-Arab groups
Oct 6 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyers now putting on defense case. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG
@AntonioGuterres incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP Paribas' first witness is its COO Phlippe Maillard.
BNP lawyer: Did BNP outside the Americas do business with Sudan?
Plaintiffs' lawyer: Objection!
Judge: Sustained.
BNP lawyer: Did BNP Suisse in Geneva do business with Sudan?
Maillard: Yes.
Oct 3 • 121 tweets • 27 min read
OK - now US v Sean Combs sentencing starts. US wants 11 years, he wants time served; today he has a video & at least 4 lawyers to speak. Opposed "Mia," but she will speak. Inner City Press wrote the book and will live tweet, thread belowamazon.com/dp/B0DHP7YF19 As Combs' lawyer mill around, he has still not been brought out. A US Marshal brings out a big sheaf of papers and a red book, picks up the chair to search underneath. All clear.
Oct 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
OK - now at sentencing of Michael Anderson in Yoga to the People case. AUSA says he was the "functional CFO" - asking for prison but less than 46 months. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below AUSA: He was the son of a CPA. He fabricated documents, a mortgage application.
Defense: He lives in the Northwest - Canada doesn't allow you in if you have even a drunk driving change. He had planned to travel to Japan. I think some encouragement is appropriate
Oct 1 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyer moving for judgment. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG @AntonioGuterres
incl from UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below BNP's lawyer Michael Martinez of Gibson Dunn: The Swiss courts say BNP cannot be held liable-
Judge: I have already decided that. Don't waste your client's money. Next argument.
BNP's lawyer: No proximate cause - Sudan was violent regardless, Mr. Hudson said
Sep 29 • 49 tweets • 12 min read
OK - Charlie Javice sentencing at SDNY. Inner City Press covered the trial and wrote the book Fintech Fraudster and will live tweet, thread below amazon.com/Fintech-Frauds…Image All rise!
Judge Hellerstein: It's my duty Ms. Javice to sentence you today. Have you read the pre-sentencing report? You have not?
Javice: I have.
Judge: I'll deal with you counsel's objections first
Sep 25 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
OK - now US v. Sean Combs, hearing on motion for acquittal or new trial. Inner City Press covered the trial in books from indictment
to verdict and will live tweet this (& Oct 3), thread belowamazon.com/dp/B0DHP7YF19 11:04 am - Combs is still in the holding cell. At defense table: Alexandra Shapiro [now also representing an Alexander brother, Justin Baldino and Charlie Javice], Xavier Donaldson, Nicole Westmoreland, Brian Steel & Agnifilo. Prosecutors stone faces in front row
Sep 22 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP's Jacques D'Estais is the witness. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by @SG
@AntonioGuterres incl from UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below Plaintiffs' lawyer: Were you aware that Sudanese government entities were clients of BNP?
D'Estais: Yes. In 2006.
Plaintiffs' lawyer: You were the head of investment solutions for BNPP?
D'Estais: Yes.
Sep 18 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, money laundering expert Barry M. Koch on the stand, Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by @SG
@AntonioGuterres will live tweet, thread below Plaintiffs' lawyer: Mr. Koch, was there any reason for BNP Paribas to use satellite banks for this other than to conceal that Sudan was involved?
BNP lawyer: Objection!
Judge: Sustained.
Plaintiffs' lawyer: Did it make it faster?
Koch: Slower. But it went through
Sep 17 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, Dr. Harry Verhoeven on the stand, Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by @SG @AntonioGuterres will live tweet, thread below All rise! Jury entering!
Judge Hellerstein: Proceed.
Plaintiffs' lawyer: Good morning, Doctor Verhoeven. Tell me about this map?
Verhoeven: That was called Southern Sudan, already falling out of control of Bashir government in Khartoum. That, Nuba Mountains
Sep 16 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
OK - back in SDNY trial against BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, the bank's compliance officer on the witness stand, as shifty as UNSG @AntonioGuterres. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below Plaintiffs' lawyer: Do you see this document saying OFAC blocked the transaction with the Sudanese chemical company?
BNP compliance officer: Maybe it was on the OFAC list
Plaintiffs' lawyer: But then the bank resubmitted it with the name Sudan out?
Sep 15 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
OK - now at trial of BNP Paribas et al for role in Sudan genocide(s) - Inner City Press has been covering the case and shamefully inept response of UN under @AntonioGuterres, who bans Press which will live tweet, thread below innercitypress.com/sdny91bhellers…Image Plaintiff's lawyer: When you worked at the CIA, how did you keep tabs on what was happening in Sudan, and about Sudan?
Ex-CIA witness: Open source intelligence was the crux of what I used.
Plaintiff's lawyer: Did you communicate with the gov't of Sudan?
A: Yes...
Sep 5 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
OK - now Jane Doe v. Pamela Bondi in DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Inner City Press is covering a similar case in SDNY and will live tweet, thread here Image DOJ lawyer: This Bureau of Prisons determination is not reviewable-
Q: But isn't it the determination of the President, in the Executive Order?
DOJ lawyer: The plaintiffs' position is not clear. The designations are in place
Q: There's someone not designated
Aug 29 • 35 tweets • 8 min read
OK - now at Lisa Cook v. Trump, seeking temporary restraining order against being removed from Federal Reserve Board for listing two residences as primary. Inner City Press covers the Fed (and courts) and will live tweet, thread below Image
Image [Programming note: the listed public access number for Cook v. Trump, after saying "Welcome to a Cisco meeting" & entering call ID - immediately hangs up. Or once said, "The meeting is over." They should have put audio on YouTube like DC Circuit. Will keep trying Image
Aug 22 • 31 tweets • 7 min read
OK - now in Chinese fentanyl case after trial, sentencing of Yiyi Chen. Inner City Press covered the trial   (and post-trial, MDC photo defendant docketed last night below) and will live tweet, thread below innercitypress.com/sdny102rgardep…Image [Sentencing proceeding was to start at 11:15 pm, but deputy said defendant Yiyi Chen, en route from MDC jail, was ten minute out. Now she's brought in by US Marshal, hair long.]
All rise!
Judge Gardephe: We are here for sentencing. I have read the PSR [sealed]
Aug 18 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
OK - now case about Alligator Alcatraz and detainees' access to lawyers there - Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
[Trump Verdict book: amazon.com/Trump-Trial-Ma…Image DOJ lawyer: All they are requesting in Count 5 is to identity which immigration court has jurisdiction over Alligator Alcatraz-
Judge Rodolfo Ruiz: I want to make sure that it is the government's decision to allocate the immigration decisions is permanent
Aug 15 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
OK - now DC's lawsuit against Federal takeover of police, DDC Judge Ana Reyes asking how it would work. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below Image Judge Reyes: It can't be that the President can say, Mayor, the entire MDC has to do what I or any other Federal agency says.
DOJ lawyer: I think the statute is broad and not subject to judicial review
Aug 6 • 37 tweets • 10 min read
OK- now in US v. Roman Storm, verdict watch Day 4 - now post-pedicure of juror, Qs of wallet(s) matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-analys… Unsealing bid storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Inner City Press 1st book on the case amazon.com/dp/B0FHXTCNCR [2d soon] & will live tweet, thread below Image 9:18 am
At defense table, Storm's lawyers Klein, Patton and Axel. Prosecutors' table is empty, like courtroom gallery. Updates in this thread as jury notes emerge: questions - and verdict? Book 2 90% ready to go. Watch this feed
Aug 5 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
OK- now in US v. Roman Storm, verdict watch Day 3 - to be cut short at 12:30pm by juror's pedicure matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-analys… Unsealing bid storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Inner City Press 1st book on the case amazon.com/dp/B0FHXTCNCR [2d soon] & will live tweet, thread below Image As of 9:06 pm, Storm's lawyer Axel and another at defense counsel's table, courtroom gallery behind them empty
Inner City Press daily vlog coming, this thread will be updated as things happen - notes? verdict? Manicure?
Watch this feed
Aug 4 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
OK - now in US v. Roman Storm, verdict watch Day 2 - Storm w/ Klein & Patton, Rehn at other table matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-in-rom… Unsealing bid storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Inner City Press 1st book on the case amazon.com/dp/B0FHXTCNCR [2d soon] & will live tweet, thread below Image As counsel on both side sit at their table waiting for the next jury note, here's letter that the defense put in about the transcripts jurors have request so far: "transcripts therefore should reflect exactly what the jury heard" - including sealed Dragonfly Q&A? Image