| Enzo Vettese Extradited From
Canada to SDNY For Money Laundering Now Gets
Time Served
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 18 -- On February 28, 2020
an indictment from 2013 was
unsealed in US v. Enzo
Vettese, and the defendant was
remanded with bail conditions
including a return to Montreal
stayed until March 3.
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave
added to the districts the
defendant could travel to the
Northern District of New York.
The defendant's lawyer said
there were unspecified medical
issues to be addressed, and
Judge Cave summoned her up to
the sidebar. Inner City Press
was the only media in the
Magistrates Court.
The background, recounted
from documents the SDNY US
Attorney's Office filed in
Vettese’s Quebec court
proceedings: law enforcement
set up surveillance in 2013
near Park Avenue and East 20th
Street. They zeroed in on red
Pontiac Montana with a Quebec
licence plate. A middle-age
man carrying a travel suitcase
approached the van, loaded the
case into it and drove
off. Enzo Vettese, a
67-year-old Montrealer, was
pulled over shortly
after. When the agents
searched the car and opened
the suitcase, they found
wrapped in individual bundles,
held together with rubber
bands, $242,880. Now
Vettese he lost a challenge
before the Quebec Court of
Appeal after failing to
convince the federal justice
department the extradition
order violates his Charter
rights. Next up: co-defendant
Edgar
Belapatino.
The case was
assigned to Judge Denise L.
Cote, who after a plea held a
sentencing proceeding on
December 18. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge Cote
said it was a serious crime,
and what was found in 2013 was
probably only the "tip of the
iceberg." Still, due to the
conditions of confinement
during COVID, and the
additional time in ICE custody
he'll spend on the way back to
Canada, Judge Cote sentenced
him to time served.
The case is US v. Vettese,
13-cr-987 (Cote / Cave).
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