| John List
Gone, A Carefully Worded Inside Story From
the Larry Ray Trial
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURT/UN
GATE, March 22 – In the course of
covering and live-tweeting the
US v. Larry Ray sex cult trial
for two weeks, Inner City
Press has obtained and
published a number of the
exhibits.
The same
occurred on the night of March
21: a list of Ray's victim
Claudia Drury's prostitution
clients.
Inner City
Press uploaded it to its
DocumentCloud, and spoke about
the list in a brief vlog on
the morning of March 22 on the
way into the Southern District
of New York courthouse to
cover the day's trial starting
at 9 am.
Just before
10 am the prosecutors emailed
reporters and asked that the
exhibit be taken down. In an
abundance of caution, Inner
City Press deleted the
document from its
DocumentCloud - and wrote to
several accounts at the
Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press asking
for a statement of applicable
First Amendment law.
By the
afternoon, having covered the
trial until Larry Ray citing a
seizure was taken out on a
stretched (Inner City Press
tweeted video here),
a second request came in, to
delete the March 21 evening
tweet of the list, which still
had an image from
DocumentCloud.
With no
response from RCFP and after
conferring with others, Inner
City Press added an explanation
to the tweet, which stayed and
stays
up but deleted the tweet
with the image.
In the
interim the Daily Mail and the
New York Daily News wrote
about the list, stating for
example that it "appears to
include a retired New York
State Supreme Court judge and
a hedge fund manager, a
celebrity dating coach — and
an executive at Gap and her
husband — among many others" -
including a "Metropolitan
Transit Authority executive,
an account executive at
Amazon, a veteran travel
writer and "a painter who has
studios in Manhattan's East
Village and in Italy and an
architect, famous for
designing college and
university buildings."
[It was also
covered, behind a paywall, by
New York Magazine which had this
to say about Inner City Press'
covered in late 2021 of the
Ghislaine Maxwell trial, book
here
via one of the companies with
an executive on the John list.]
Later on
March 22 came pressure
directed at Inner City Press
from other quarters to release
and not "cover up" the list.
It was unclear if
similar requests or demands
were made to the two
above-quoted corporate media.
When Inner City Press for
investigative reporting was
roughed up and thrown
out onto First Avenue
from covering the United
Nations of/by UNSG Antonio
Guterres, many did nothing.
But as we've previously noted,
the First Amendment stops at
First Avenue. We'll have more
on this, here and on other
platforms.
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