| Felix
Sater SDNY Case Slowed By
Coronavirus As Judge Parker
Kicks Can To June Gave Ferrari
60 Days
By Matthew
Russell Lee
FEDERAL
COURTHOUSE, April 30 – Felix
Sater during a testy cross
examination on August 8, 2019
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge
Katharine H. Parker was asked
if he remembered election day
2016 as a notable day.
It was "a
notably day for all
Americans," Sater replied,
smiling. Moments later when
the same lawyer, Matthew Lane
Schwartz of Boies Schiller
Flexner LLP began a question
about Sater knowing it is a
felony to lie, Sater shot
back, YOU know it is a felony
- until Judge Parker cut it
off.
Jump cut to
April 30, 2020, when Judge
Parker held a telephone
conference in the case amid
the COVID-19 pandemic. Inner
City Press covered this as
well.
The first issue
was, has Ferrari Holdings LLC
retained counsel?
Judge Parker said she gave
them 60 days. Bigger
picture, Judge Parker said she
expects social distancing to
continue in New York into the
summer, so plans for the Sater
case should take that into
account.
Talk
turned to subpoenas to banks,
production on a rolling basis.
Subpoenas to law firms, too -
a firm says it has objections.
Judge Parker said, With these
discovery issues, the next
conference should be in 45
days. She said, "I started
scheduling in-person
conferences for June --"
A lawyer,
seemingly Jill Levy for Sater,
called that "pretty
aggressive."
Judge
Parker said, Let's do it by
phone in June. Inner City Pres
will "be" there, in person or
virtually. Watch this site.
The case is City of Almaty,
Kazakhstan et al v. Sater et
al.,
19-cv-02645
(Nathan /
Parker).
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