| In SDNY Murky Mag Court
Nebraskan Charged With Social Security Fraud
Gets Metrocard and Unsealing Order
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 11 – A man charged with
Social Security fraud in
Nebraska was brought by U.S.
Marshals before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Magistrate
Judge Katharine
H. Parker on
June 11, at
the end of the
day.
Judge
Parker's
Deputy,
following a
best practice,
read out not
only the
defendant's
name, Colbert,
but also a
number, 19-MAG-5552. An hour
after the
proceeding, still
nothing. Then the
Rule 5(c)(3)
affidavit, by
Deputy Marshal
Eric Kushi. It
refers to a
criminal
case number 19
Cr. 3041.
The
defendant has
two names:
Justin
Alexander
Colbert, and
Nicholas Ryan
Hanshaw.
The
Assistant U.S.
Attorney
referred to an order- it
sounded like a
sealing order,
which is done
too frequently,
but turned
out by 8 pm to
be UNsealing
-
drafted by a
colleague
seemingly
Rushmi
Bhaskaran, and
Judge Parker
said whatever
it was it
would be
signed. (To
her credit,
she did not
grant the
baseless
request to exclude
time until
Colbert's
slated appearance at
the Lincoln,
Nebraska
courthouse on
June 26 before
a Judge John
Gerard.)
Colbert
or his
family have
the funds to travel
back for that
appearance,
and perhaps
back to New
York after
that. His
Federal
Defender, Ian
Marcus Amelkin
along with an
FD intern
arranged for
Colbert to get a
Metrocard. He
was released
on his own signature
of a $20,000
bond, to
be signed by
June 25 by his
mother as
well. And that
was it. For
now. Inner
City Press was
the only media
in the Mag
Court and is
continuing to
dig into
all this. Watch
this site, @InnerCityPress and the
new @SDNYLIVE.
A defendant was
released with reporting "only
by phone or web, no home
visits" in the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York's Magistrates Court
as the last case of
the week of
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein.
Why could Pre-Trial
Services
not conduct
any home
visit? If it
it because
the defendant
- murkily
announced as
Miguel (Tobias?)
Mendez is a
cooperating
witness, why
do it in open
court? How to
justify
remanding some,
compared to
this?
There
is no Miguel
Mendez as a
defendant in
PACER; the
Assistant US
Attorneys on
June 7 were
whispering as
if part of a
conspiracy
themselves.
Where is the
accountability? Where is the
transparency?
The
next hearing
for Bryan
Pivnick is
July 1.
Inner City
Press and @SDNYLIVE will be there.
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