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In Trial About Drug Deal in Upper Manhattan and TX Cali Trips US Closing Cites Dallas BBQ

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 15 – Pedro Sosa-Zarzuela is on trial for conspiracy to distribute narcotics.

On November 9 he was described in a car in Upper Manhattan with a kilo of cocaine for sale for $28,000. Inner City Press was in the courtroom. 

 In the run-up to the trial, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Paul A. Crotty on November 4 granted an application to partially seal the courtroom, providing an audio feed into another courtroom as he did, previously, in the first trial of Joshua Schulte for CIA leaks. 

 But on November 9 it was open, with the witness on the stand describing the drug deal on 215th Street and Broadway.

The AUSA asked the witness to step down and put Post-it notes on the chart, to show where the sale took place.

There was other lawyers in the gallery, seemingly for co-defendants or cooperators.

On November 10, many of these remained in the courtroom when it was locked and sealed. In the hallway outside, Inner City Press spoke about access with the next witness, a cooperator as it turned out, Rodolfo Escoto. Once the doors were unlocked he took the stand and described dealing drugs, including with "Aguacate," and getting arrested. Then he pled guilty and became a cooperator, now testifying against his brother in the law, the defendant.

On November 14, cooperator Escoto was still on the stand, being asked about his cooperating agreement and certain misstatement he had made - early in the process, he quickly specified.

  An issue has arisen whether Escoto even waived discovery as a defendant. Sosa's white shoe CJA counsel says written proof of that waiver has been  provided.

In closing on November 15, the US Attorney's Office in PointPoint slides pointed at Sosa's California and Texas drug trips as well as the 215th Street controlled buy, and to inculpatory statements in the "Dallas BBQ interview," a portion of which it played. Now on verdict watch. Watch this site.

The trial continues. The case is US v. Sosa-Zarzuela, 21-cr-41 (Crotty)

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