| US Said Carrano Used
Roosters For Fighting So Seized Them But Now
28 Are Dead Transfer Sought
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 26 – A
case about
roosters, in
which the US
has sought the
civil
forfeiture
of birds, is flying
around in the
U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New
York.
SDNY Judge
Sidney Stein
in sentencing
Thomas Carrano
on December
13, 2019 said
"Mr. Carrano
may not
possess,
acquire, buy
or sell or own
any live
roosters,
chickens,
hens, or any
form of game
fowl during
his three
years of
supervised
release."
But since then
the government
has release
fowl they
seized - and
their progeny
- to Gina
Carrano. And
in a July 19
letter to SDNY
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein,
Thomas
Carrano's
lawyer Steven
L. Kessley
said that "at
least 28 of
the Carranos'
birds - more
than a quarter
- have died
while in the
custody of the
government's
agents."
Thomas Carrono
is imprisoned
upstate, but
his lawyer
says he "will
be transferred
to a halfway
house in the
Rochester area
in October."
So he seeks
transfer of
the case from
the SDNY -
where a Hector
Crux mailed
him birds from
The Bronx - to
the Western
District. As
of 7 pm on
July 26, the
docket has no
answer. Watch
this site.
Earlier
on July 26 Glenn Blicht,
president of International
Longshoremen's
Association Local
1964 in
Ridgefield
Park, New
Jersey, was
presented on honest
services
fraud charges before
SDNY
Magistrate
Stewart Aaron.
He wore a
yellow t-shirt
and had
retained
counsel, who
tried to hand
his passport
to Assistant
US Attorney
Maureen Comey,
filling in for
AUSA Michael
Neff, last
seen at two
dark web
prosecutions
on July 26).
Blicht was
released on
$100,000 bond
and free to
travel in the
tri-state
area.
According to
the Complaint:
"From 2009
through the
present,
BLICHT served
as an officer
of the Union,
including as
its president
for many
years.
In that role,
BLICHT had a
duty to act in
the best
interests of
the Union and
its members,
including by
avoiding
personal
financial
conflicts of
interest with
the
Union.
Nevertheless,
BLICHT
demanded and
received cash
payments from
the Employer,
which employed
a number of
members of the
Union.
In exchange
for these
bribes, BLICHT
declined to
file
arbitration
claims on
behalf of
Union
members.
In total,
BLICHT
received at
least
approximately
$150,000 in
bribes from
the Employer
over
approximately
10
years.
In
communications,
a number of
which were
recorded,
BLICHT
repeatedly
referred to
the bribe
payments as
“tickets,” in
which each
ticket equaled
a $1,000
bribe.
BLICHT
instructed an
official of
the Employer
(the
“Official”) as
to the number
of “tickets”
to pay BLICHT
each
time.
Indeed, during
the past year,
the Official
met with
BLICHT several
times and paid
him bribes on
approximately
three
occasions, at
the direction
of law
enforcement.
Each of these
meetings was
recorded."
Inner City
Press, which
was present in
the Mag Court
on July 26,
will continue
to cover this
case.
After
being arrested
and taken off
a Qatar
Airways flight
at JFK airport,
Delowar
Mohammed
Hossain was presented
on July 26
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Stewart Aaron,
charged with
one count of
attempted
provision of
material
support for
terrorism. He
was adjudged
eligible for
free counsel
as was
assigned
experienced
Federal
Defender Amy
Gallicchio.
The US
government
sought, and
got,
detention,
without
prejudice to a
later
application
for release on
bond. The
preliminary
hearing was
set 30 days
out, for
August 26.
When someone
asked about
plea
bargaining the
answer was,
It's a bit
earlier for
that, isn't
it? Inner City
Press will
have more on
this case,
which has been
assigned the
number
19-mj-6978
(although
that, even
after the
presentment,
came up in
PACER as "case
not found").
While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.are
sealed or have
no case number
given, on July 17
before
Magistrate
Judge Kevin N. Fox,
things got
more dramatic.
In a case
that, hours
after the
defendants
were ordered
released on
bail remained listed
as "sealed,"
Munif Ahmed stands
accused of conspiracy
to distribute
large
quantities of
drugs
from China and
with telling
the now cooperating
witness,
"Don't f*ck
with me."
The
government
argued that
Ahmed is a
risk to flee
to Yemen; his
Criminal
Justice Act
lawyer said
no, blood
clots in his
legs prevent
him from
flying. Then
there was the
matter of
where Mr.
Ahmed lives -
on Anderson
Avenue in the
Bronx with his
uncle or in
the store on
West 168th
Street which
he lists on
his ID. This
was ascribed
to not having
an interpreter
during the
interview with
pre trial
services.
Ahmed
was ordered
released on a
$250,000 bond
with $30,000
in cash or
property. His
co-defendant
who called "Mr
Lazzaro"
before turning
himself in
must put up
$40,000 cash.
He drive Uber;
Inner City
Press predicts
he or Mr.
Lazzaro or his
associate will
move to relax
the conditions
of release to
extend beyond
the Southern
and Eastern
Districts of
New York.
Watch this
site.
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