SDNY / Art World, March 24 -- The Larry
Ray trial twice stalled by seizures restarted
and started naming names - but only
selectively. Claudia Drury was still in the
plexiglass witness box and now the Assistant
US Attorney was asking her about a
particularly John, by name.
He
was Stuart Piltch. It was for telling Piltch
about her website that Larry Ray bound and
suffocated Drury all night long in the Gregory
Hotel, the horror story with which the AUSA
had opened the case.
Now the
reason was presented, not as collecting money
like more conventional pimps, but anger at
Drury's website talk.
Kurt
who had published the John List then been
"asked" to take it down was legitimately
confused. Why were the prosecutors so openly
naming Piltch, as they'd done with the Times
Hotel night manager, while taking the position
that other Johns, in the field of art for
example, must remain protected?
It was
like, in the United Nations, Secretary General
Antonio Guterres fired whistleblowers and
banned the Press while protecting his sex
abusing crony Fabrizio Hochschild.
Kurt
covered the day's testimony and the moved to
Stage or Step 3 of #JohnListGone, the first
one from the art world, on Patreon here
[It, like a song
about Lev Parnas was also
covered, behind a paywall, by
New York Magazine which had this
to say about Inner City Press'
covered in late 2021 of the
Ghislaine Maxwell trial, book
here
via one of the companies with
an executive on the John
list.]
When Inner
City Press for investigative
reporting was roughed up and thrown
out onto First Avenue
from covering the United
Nations of/by UNSG Antonio
Guterres, many did nothing.
But as we've previously noted,
the First Amendment stops at
First Avenue. We'll have more
on this, here and on other
platforms.
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