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Greenwood and US Get Stay of Discovery 90
Days Next SDNY Date March 26
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 18 – As Inner City Press
covered the OneCoin trial in
October 2019, a number of
names of indicted
co-conspirators emerged on
which we followed up.
One of
them was Gilbert Armenta,
who recorded
Ruja Ignatova. Inner City
Press has repeatedly asked the
US Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York
for more information; it
continues even now to withhold
the exhibits it flashed on the
screen at trial. Inner City
Press had to file a FOIA
request; the Department of
Justice denied expedited
processing.
Then on
August 6, Konstantin Ignatov
got himself released from the
civil suit, full filing here.
On
Sebastian Greenwood, on
December 15, three days before
a scheduled proceeding, this:
"Re: United States v. Karl
Sebastian Greenwood, S5 17 Cr.
630 (ER) Dear Judge Ramos: We
write with the consent of the
defendant to request a 90-day
stay of discovery in the
above-captioned matter. To
date, the Government has
produced to the defendant a
voluminous amount of
discovery, including, but not
limited to, two hard drives
containing several terabytes
of data. In light of the
voluminous discovery produced
to date, which defense counsel
is still in the process of
reviewing, the Government
would request that the
production of discovery be
stayed for a period of 90
days."
Inner City
Press live tweeted the
December 18 Greenwood
proceeding, such as it was, here:
AUSA: We have
requested a stay, to try to
work out a disposition.
Greenwood's
lawyer Barket: Correct.
Plus, we're going through a
lot of discovery material.
Meeting my client is
difficult, given the
circumstances. I don't know
how the jail permits who gets
visits.
Greenwood's
lawyer Barket: I had a few
visit, then they stopped. I
have three or four other
clients in the facility and I
can't meet any of them. We
speak on the phone - once -
and setting up the video
conferencing has been
difficult. It was easier in
the summer
Judge
Ramos: You don't object to a
stay of discovery? Barket: I
don't.
Judge Ramos: So
we'll come back in three
months to see where we are?
AUSA: Yes. Barket: Yes.
Judge Ramos: So,
March 26 at 10:30 am. Speedy
Trial Act time excluded. We
are adjourned.
We'll continue to
cover this.
On
September 16 in a filing with
Judge Caproni more details:
Ignatov's cooperation with the
civil case plaintiff included
calls on September 11 and 16:
"Re: Grablis v. OneCoin Ltd.
et. al., Case No. 1:19-cv-4074
Dear Judge Caproni: We write
on behalf of Lead Plaintiff
Donald Berdeaux and Plaintiff
Christine Grablis (together,
“Plaintiffs”) in the
above-captioned matter (the
“Action”). Plaintiffs request
clarification from the Court
regarding: (1) whether
Plaintiffs have already
received leave to file a
Second Amended Complaint based
on this Court’s July 24, 2019
Order (the “July 2019 Order,”
ECF No. 39), and if not,
whether Plaintiffs must seek
leave to file a Second Amended
Complaint; and (2) based upon
the July 2019 Order, whether
Plaintiffs must choose to file
either a Second Amended
Complaint or file an
opposition to the Defendants’
Motions to Dismiss...
Then-Defendant Ignatov was
voluntarily dismissed from
this Action without prejudice
on August 20, 2020 on the
basis of cooperation with
Plaintiffs. [ECF No. 118].
Since granting the extension,
and due to the issues involved
with navigating call schedules
with an inmate, Plaintiffs
were able to obtain their
first interview with Ignatov
on September 11, 2020, and
their second interview on
September 16, 2020. These
interviews have produced
substantial useful information
with which to bolster
Plaintiffs’ claims in a Second
Amended Complaint."
The
willingness to hide Armenta
and the case against him, as
he continued dubious business
presumably for others, has
Inner City Press wondering
about these individuals it is
researching through links to
Ruja Ignatova's RavenR:
Thomas
Christodoulou
Maria Serbina
Joanna Hilary Alinson
Simon John Longworth
Anna Marie Longworth
Robert Henry Rothenberg
Gary Michael Gilford
Nikolaou Nikolaos
Louca Theocharis
Mary Skoullou
Giannakis Tsiannaros
Svitlana Kolesnyk
Cyprus Development Bank
Vladislav Velkov
We'll have more
on this. Here are the
Armenta business moves Inner
City Press exclusively
reported on December 1, 2019,
here:
ESOL B.V.
LLC was incorporated on July
8, 2019; the manager is
Gilbert Armenta and the agent
is Giselle Valentin, both of
500 E. Broward Boulevard, PH
2, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394.
See here.
And here.
Armenta's Tblisi,
Georgia-based money laundering
bank JSC Capital Bank had as
its parent a company of
exactly this name. See KPMG
review of Georgia banking
sector here.
More on Armenta's ongoing
companies on Patreon here.
Inner City
Press asked, on December 1,
2019: Is the US Attorney's
Office allowing its cooperator
to keep on money laundering?
Or looking the other way while
whatever cooperation agreement
exists is openly violated?
Perhaps these and other
quesitons will be answered in
connection with Armenta's
sentencing in the too long
seal case against him. Watch
this site.
More on Patreon here.
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