| SDNY Cooperator Works Hard
But Covid Stimulus Check Is Gone Other
Information Confidential
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 24 – During this
pandemic of COVID-19, even
supervised release proceedings
provide a window into the the
spread of, and reactions to,
the novel coronavirus.
But only
some of what's said, perhaps
for good reasons, can be
reported.
On April
23 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman held a
proceeding with supervisee
Eugenio Ricardo.
The public docket
reflects that while Ricardl
pleaded guilty in 2014, that
fact was sealed until April
2017: "04/05/2017 -- ORDER as
to Eugenio Ricardo accepting
guilty plea. (Filed under
seal/delayed docketing on
9/24/14). (Signed by Judge
Richard M. Berman on
9/24/14)(jm) (Entered:
04/06/2017)."
Still Ricardo is subject to a
restitution order, and the
downturn in the economy
obviously has an impact on
that.
Judge Berman to
his credit said that there are
other more important
issues. He asked Ricardo
if the stimulus check would
tide him over. The answer was
that it was already gone, to
pay bills.
These are
public facts.
But as it was
announced mid-proceeding that
medical information is
confidential -- even as many
defendants openly discuss
their medical information in
order to seek release from
prison or even terms of
supervised release -- Inner
City Press out of respect will
respect it.
Could there be a better way to
separate medical from other
information, to not leave a
lack of clarity for
journalists as to what they
can and cannot or should not
report? Yes. We'll have more
on this. This case is US v.
Ricardo, 13-cr-587
(Berman).
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