| In SDNY Patel Quietly
Released After Secret Bid On MTA Super Storm
Sandy Joralemon Tunnel
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 18 -- A defendant named
Paresh Patel was quietly
presented in and immediately
released by the Magistrates
Court of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York on
February 18.
He waived
indictment and Assistant US
Attorney Ryan Finkel agreed he
could be immediately released
and travel to Florida.
Now Inner City Press, which
was the only media in the
Magistrates Court that evening
can report the crime with
which Patel is charged:
obstructing a federal grand
jury investigation into bid
rigging and fraud in
connection with contracts
awarded by the MTA for
Superstorm Sandy-related
repairs.
It turns out that Patel set up
an engineering consulting firm
named Satkirti Consulting
Engineering LLC, registered in
the name of Patel's daughter.
The company bid on the
Joralemon Tube Project, for
the 4 and 5 train travel
between Manhattan and
Brooklyn.
So
why now is the US Attorney's
Office processing Patel so
quietly, with release on
consent and information
withheld the day of
presentment so it presumably
would be reported? Inner City
Press followed up, and will
continue to follow up. The
case is US v. Patel, 20-cr-142
(Woods / Moses).
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