SDNY / Hedge Fund
World -- The Larry Ray trial was
bifurcating into a public and a private
version. After the outing of the John from
Cambridge Advisory Group Stuart Piltch, next
the prosecutors put on the stand another John,
this one an editor, Randy Levinson. He
required immunity.
He was asked, Are you here under
subpoena?
Yes.
Would
you refuse to testify citing your right
against self-incrimination?
Yes.
Immunity
granted.
Then a seedy yet banal tale, of how even in
lending Claudia Drury money Levinson had
angled for more, the dropping of the sex
price from $600 an hour to $300 an hour to
zero. You'll have to see me a lot to pay
this back, he wrote.
Claudia
Drury for her part described clients on
crack, clients hurting her, and the
relentless pressure to give money to Larry
Ray and Isabella Pollok. Why hadn't she just
run away? It remained a question.
So
too what to do with the other Johns. Kurt
proceeding cautiously, first with Fomba
Sirlief, then the Gap couple, an artist
historian, the Yale architect. But there
were so many more.
The
judge knocked off the trial at 1 pm and said
publicly, see you Monday. But Kurt called in
to the Judge's 3 pm conference and heard the
pro se prisoner plaintiff being told that
the judge was busy on a trial, that it would
be rescheduled for next week.
Kurt
ran up to the 15th floor or ran across the
8th floor hallway with its views out over
Chinatown and took the elevator up to 15.
The judge's court room doors were not
locked; Kurt stopped in the antechamber
because there was bald men inside. It sure
looked like Larry Ray. Why was there no
notice of this in the docket? Kurt made
these complaints before, when he'd first
gotten here, and it had never worked well.
He went back down and wrote a story. There
was the lobbyist from DC, with a firm that
represented Maduro of Venezuela, the DR
Congo which was shirking its debts elsewhere
in the courthouse, and a party in
Afghanistan. At least that one was
international. What about the hedge funder
with his name on a museum? Kurt had the
name. And the museums, on Patreon here.
#JohnListGone
[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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