| Week Before OneCoin Trial Judge Ramos
Quashes Scott Subpoenas for Cooperating
Witness Calls
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon, Periscope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 29 – After OneCoin's
Konstantin Ignatov got a stay
of the civil case against him,
then the criminal case against
him and his missing sister
Ruja Ignatova was kicked down
the road for at least another
two months. Now the can for
accused OneCoin money
launderer Mark Scott looms
closer, on November 4 before
Judge Edgardo Ramos in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
On Sunday,
October 27 Mark Scott's lawyer
Arlo Devlin-Brown of Covington
asked Judge Ramos to allow in
more of Scott's post arrest
statement.
A similar
request was made for example
in the recent trial which
convicted the Honduras
President's brother Tony
Hernandez the defense left
until mid-trial but still got
granted under a deal with the
prosecutors encouraged by SDNY
Judge P. Kevin Castel, here.
More on Patreon here
and here.
On Monday,
October 28 in a two hour
pre-trial conference covered
by Inner City Press and at
least two others, Judge Ramos
ended by asking if the trial
will in fact go forward on
November 4, since he will be
spending all week preparing.
Assistant
US Attorney Christopher J.
DiMase replied he expects so,
noting that no plea agreement
has been offered to Scott.
Also near the end
of the proceeding, Judge Ramos
quashed Scott's subpoenas for
the recorded phone calls of
cooperating witnesses, citing
the Nixon doctrine and a
decision by fellow SDNY Judge
Valerie E. Caproni in the
Percoco case. Immediately four
lawyers left the already
sparse courtroom.
After the
prosecution described OneCoin
responding to a law
enforcement presentation,
Judge Ramos asked if it had
been a press conference. No, a
law enforcement to law
enforcement presentation was
the answer. The prosecution
said OneCoin was able to
access information about the
meeting, without answering on
when the meeting had been.
Earlier in the
proceeding Judge Ramos
rejected most of Scott's
proposed supplements from his
post arrest statement: five
out of seven in full, and most
of the other two.
He also
said that the government can
show photos of Scott with a
yacht and cars that he
purchased, which the
government said could show the
jury why in their theory Scott
gave up his already lucrative
position in the Locke Lord law
firm for the flashier riches
working with OneCoin through
the Fenero Funds.
On the other hand
Judge Ramos will not allow in
the testimony of a so-called
"attempted victim" who chose
not to invest in OneCoin after
thirty minutes of online
research, and will not allow
in evidence of the gun Scott
was found with when arrested,
using the word (too)
"thuggish" in denying it.
The
government said the trial will
take two to three weeks. There
will be four alternate jurors.
Jury selection is set for
November 4. Inner City Press
will be there - watch this
site. And watch this
Periscope video,
for now. More on Patreon here. The case
is US v.
Scott, 17-cr-630
(Ramos).
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