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Asset Afrasiabi who Worked for UN
Branch Now Set to Plead Guilty in
EDNY But to What?
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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EDNY COURT, Sept
9 – Indicted
Iran lobbyist
Kaveh
Afrisaibi
is set to plead guilty on
September 19 in Brooklyn
Federal court, Inner City
Press has learned.
UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres
responded positively to
entreaties by Afrisaibi,
documents which were sought to
be withdrawn from the Federal
court file but obtained by
Inner City Press show.
Afrisiabi was illegal paid as
a lobbyist by Iran Mission the
UN for years, through the UN
Federal Credit Union.
On August 25,
2021 Afrasiabi had a
proceeding in the Eastern
District of New York. Judge
Korman arrived late, saying
he'd needed oxygen supplements
to arrive. He chided the AUSA
for delays in discovery, and
said the 33,000 audio files
should be produced by Friday,
with a next conference on
December 1 at 2 pm. He mused
that the US might not deport
Afrasiabi to Iran if
convicted, just as he said the
US at least for a time did not
deport to China.
Afrasiabi cut in to say he had
worked for "a branch of the
United Nations."
On September 9,
quietly, a notice that Afrasiabi
is set to plead guilty. To what?
The notice: "SCHEDULING ORDER as
to Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi:
Change of Plea Hearing set for
9/19/2022 at 12:00 PM in
Courtroom 13D South before
Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes,
Jr. Ordered by Magistrate Judge
Ramon E. Reyes, Jr on
9/9/2022." Again, what
plea has been agreed to?
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