| Weigard Charged With $100M
Pot Scam Faces December SDNY Trial Wants Bill
of Particulars
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 28 – Ruben Weigand is
charged with with a "scheme to
deceive US banks into
processing in excess of $100
million for marijuana
products."
On April
28, he had a proceeding before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff, covered
by Inner City
Press.
Weigand since has money,
unlike many SDNY defendants,
has high powered lawyers from
Wilson Sonsini. On April 28
they demanded a bill of
particulars.
Judge
Rakoff pushed back, setting a
tight schedule for that: May
12, May 18 and he'll rule by
May 20.
But these
high powered lawyers have a
grueling trial schedule for
other clients, from the
Central District of California
and elsewhere.
So Judge Rakoff
agreed to a trial in December
2020, to be finished before
Christmas. Inner City Press
will cover it. The case is US
v. Weigand, 20-cr-188
(Rakoff).
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