| Norton and 8
Others Charged With Steamfitters Union
Bribery Now Norton Pleads to 14 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 17 – Matthew Norton and
eight others were charged with
honest services fraud in
connection with Local 638 of
the Enterprise Association of
Steamfitters.
On
June 17, 2021 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Colleen McMahon held a
proceeding.
Inner City
Press covered
it. It
took some time to make sure
all of the defendants and
their lawyers were present.
Then Judge
McMahon set a schedule:
discovery from the government
due in 30 days, defendants
have 90 days to review it.
Jump cut to
August 17, 2022. Inner City
Press was covering the SDNY
Magistrates Court, as the only
media there, when Norton and
his defense counsel can in to
plead guilty before Magistrate
Judge Barbara C. Moses.
They had
to wait, for an appointment of
counsel for what appeared from
context and hand tattoo to be
cooperator in an unrelated
gang case. Then, the plea. It
was routine until, during the
allocution, Norton's voice
broke and he seemed to cry.
The amount
taken in bribes was not
stated, nor is it in the
superseding information of
Scott Roche, who recently also
pled guilty in the case.
Norton faced a
maximum of five years, but got
a plea agreement for 8 to 14
months - no appeal if 14
months or less, venue waived.
His sentencing will be on
November 16, time not stated
in the proceeding.
The case is USA
v. Cahill et al, 20-cr-521
(McMahon)
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