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Schulte Prosecution US Used Carlos
Betances and Sealed His Case But Inner
City Press Found
By Matthew
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SDNY COURT,
Exclusive, July 1 – To
prosecute Joshua Schulte for
leaking classified US
information, the Department of
Justice has used the testimony
of cooperator Carlos Manuel
Betances Luna Mera.
While the
docket of his case in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
still has a slew of "Sealed
Documents," Inner City Press
has now reviewed it, and
reports on it here.
Betances
was Federally arrested on
March 15, 2018 on charges of
illegal re-entry of the United
States. He had previously been
arrested in 2000 in
Massachusetts for possession
of cocaine. He was deported on
April 17, 2001 to his native
Dominican Republic.
Later he was
arrested in The Bronx, New
York on February 28, 2018 and
Federally charged two weeks
later.
But in the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center in lower Manhattan,
where Jeffrey Epstein was
later to be declared dead,
Betances hit the jackpot.
He fell in with
accused CIA leaker Joshua
Schulte, and Huma Abadeen's
first cousin Omar Amanat. And
he cooperated against them, to
try for a lighter sentence and
even an S visa to stay in the
US.
Assistant
US Attorneys repeatedly asked
for continuances of Betances'
case, then filed sealed
documents into the docket of
his otherwise obscure case.
Nearly two years
later a new Information was
unsealed, the case assigned to
SDNY District Judge Kimba M.
Wood.
Betances quietly pleaded
guilty - with no sentencing
date set - before SDNY
Magistrate Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger on August 17, 2021.
That is the last
entry in his case, even as he
testified against Schulte in
2022.
Then, as live
tweeted by Inner City Press,
Betances said he took the
Schulte information to his
lawyer - listed in the docket
as Jorge De Jesus Guttlin -
who contacted the US
Attorney's Office.
Was his arrest
just a set-up?
The case is US v.
Mera, 18-cr-407 (Wood)
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