| In SDNY The Burmese Postman
Is Rung Up Twice For Bribes and Cigarettes
Speaking Rakhine
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Scope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 22 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed, as
Inner City
Press
exclusively
reported on
July 2
before
Magistrate
Judge Barbara
Moses a
defendant charged
with contraband
cigarettes
and bribes,
dressed in
US Postal
Service pants
and referred
to only as "Liu"
was given as a
bail condition a $100,000
bond.
Then
Judge Moses asked
if the Burmese
consultate
should be
notified.
On
July 22 Mister
Liu re-emerged
before
SDNY Judge
Jesse Furman,
with a
hard-working
CJA lawyer who
asked only for
45 days to
review
discovery and
30 days to
file any
motions. (A
change in time
was still not
in the docket
on PACER as of
5:45 pm; the
case is USA v.
Guo, 19-cr-39
and the
postman's
first name is
Kenny).
Judge
Furman has
already set
the trial date
for the
co-defendants
for February
3, 2020. He
asked
Assistant U.S.
Attorney
Elizabeth
Espinosa if
Liu had been
Mirandized and
was told yes,
in Cantonese.
But doesn't he
speak Burmese,
as at the July
22 status
conference?
Actually, he
speak Rakhine.
He is a US
Postal Service
employee
charged with
bribery,
accepting
bribes, in
connection
with $30
million in
untaxed
cigarettes.
We'll have
more on this.
Back on
July 1
some SDNY
presentments
had numbers:
for example,
"KENNETH
SIDERS
VOSR
12-cr-932."
Inner
City Press
went to the
Mag court and
found a
defendent in
dread locks
with a
hard-working
CJA lawyer,
explaining how
when he got
out of jail he
went to live
in the
apartment
which included
a man who had
raped his
girlfriend.
The downward
spiral left
him, the Assistant
US Attorney
said, arrested
in a park. He
shook his
head, it was
on Madison
Street just by
the
courthouse; he
had been on
his way to
come meet his
parole officer.
Unlike bankers
and alleged
drug dealers,
this Mr.
Siders was not
granted
bond. He
remains in
detention.
O
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