| Dramatist Who Bragged Of
Grooming 11 Year Old Boy To Be Freed From SDNY
To NJ Home With No Cell Phone
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 30 – A thirty year old man
accused by the government of
distributing pornographic
images of infants and bragging
that he was grooming an 11
year old boy is being freed on
bond to his mother's house in
New Jersey, it was decided
late on May 30 in the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York's Magistrates Court
with Inner
City Press the
only media
present. See
also Patreon.
Bryan Pivnick
was brought in
foot shackles
before SDNY Magistrate
Judge James L.
Cott after 6
pm. Assistant
US Attorney
Thomas Wright,
who later
confirmed the
spelling of Pivnick's
name to Inner
City Press,
argued for detention.
He
described
Telegram
messages on February
10, 2019 in which
Pivnick said
he was "getting
close to the
11 y/o bro"
of his
boyfriend. The
same 11
year old was
found in
Pivnick's
apartment when
he was
arrested.
Pivnick's
Federal
Defenders lawyer
Philip
Weinstein
protested that
the 11
year old is
the son of
Pivnick's
boyfriend and
that the
photos were
not naked -
they were at a
museum. "The SPY
museum,"
Pivnick audibly
said.
Pivnick's
mother
and
step-father
were in the
gallery. When
Pivnick was
brought in his
mother cried
and left
courtroom.
Later she
spoke up to
tell Judge
Cott that her
home in
New Jersey has
"Raid
security"
which can film
whomever
approaches it.
Judge Cott said he
would take a
recess
to decide. But
before that
happened, none
other
than the mother of
the 11 year
told, a Ms. Chapman,
spoke up from
the gallery.
She said that
while she
will never
again allow
her son to see
Pivnick, they
had shared a
dog together,
that she had
paid for.
She objected
to AUSA Wright
saying Pivnick
doesn't have
steady work,
noting that he
works 11 hours
a day on a
musical, albeit
not for money.
While Cott and
his Deputy Mr.
Tan never read
out the index
number
of the case,
online
research by
Inner City Press
finds a Bryan
Pivnick who is
described
in Marymount
Manhattan
Magazine in
2010-11: "Early
this spring
semester,
Bryan Pivnick
’11 brought
the beginnings
of a song to
class. He
wasn’t sure
where he was
going with it,
but wanted to
get some
feedback to
help guide
him. Students
reacted with
confusion to
his phrasing
and were
unsatisfied
with his rhyme
schemes. In a
previous
class,
Pivnick, a
theatre arts
major, had
received
favorable
responses from
the class when
he shared a
song from a
separate
project, a
developing
musical in
which he had
provided the
class with
clear
characters and
context for
the direction
those songs
were taking."
Bryan
Pivnick in
Harrison, New Jersey
(another
address is in
Freehold,
NJ) also
registered
with GoDaddy a
website named
TheDramatistsLab.org.
It is not
live. An
address on the
Upper
West Side is
also listed
but no longer
seems
relevant for
this format. (But
see Patreon,
here.)
Cott emerged
and said that,
unlike a
homeless man
less than an
hour later
whom he
remanded to
the MCC for
online threats
to DC Mayor
Muriel Bowser, of
whom Pre Trial
Services noted
"ties to
Nigeria," Pivnick
could be
freed. His
mother will
put up her home
and agree to
have her
computer and
other
electronics
password
protected.
Pivnick is not
to see the
boyfriend,
who is now a witness.
In the back of
the Mag
Court, Ms.
Chapman was discussing
what was on
Pivnick's
phone. Then the
homeless man
was remanded,
his bond
application
denied.
Back on May 23 in
the SDNY Mag Court in the
hours after banker
Stephen Calk
was freed by
Judge Debra
Freeman on
$5 million
bond with no co-signer,
other
SDNY cases
continued.
A dual British -
US citizen
living in
Brooklyn but
reaching out
for underage
sex was
presented, with
his wife in
the courtroom
by that
time only with
Inner City
Press. Federal
Defender Amy
Gallichio
argued that
Peter Bright
should be
released, since
his building
in Brooklyn
has a video
surveillance
system.
But would the
neighbors want
the U.S.
Attorney's
Office to see
their
comings and
goings?
Gallichio offered
for Bright to
install his
own camera
over his door
and turn the
files in to
the
government. Judge
Freeman
found this of
intersted and
invited a second try, if
only in
writing. She
quizzed Bright's
all-American
wife in the
gallery and said
the Peter is
lucky. Was his
claim to be
"training" an
eleven year
old girl in
The Bronx just
puffery? Inner
City Press
will stay on
this case.
At
6:25 pm a
defendant
arrested at JFK
airport on
drug charges
(heroin and
fetanyl) appeared,
with CJA
lawyer de
Castro and a
court
interpreter.
The main
issue, it
seemed, was the
defendant's
prosthetic leg
and the need
for a "sock"
and one that
was cleaned.
Judge Freedman
signed an
order that defendant
Rivas-Marichal,
dubbed
"peg-leg" by
one heartless
Mag Court
denizen, no
longer by held
in leg irons.
The U.S. Marshals quickly
obliged.
And then led
him away.
Earlier
at 5:30
pm a taxi
driver from
Astoria,
Queens was in
the dock along
with a younger
man from India whose
Federal
Defender sparred with
the Assistant
U.S. Attorney
about his
right to copy
Defendant Malhotra's
passport.
Ultimately
Magistrate Judge
Debra Freeman,
handling
arraignments
this week,
told the government
NOT to copy the
passport, but
continued
detention for
Malhotra unlike
Calk.
The taxi driver was released
but can no
longer use a
smart phone, only
some ill-defined satellite
mapping
system. Inner
City Press
will continue
to follow
that and this
case.
The
next hearing
for Pivnick is
July 1.
Inner City
Press and @SDNYLIVE will be there.
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