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Dealer With Yale Degree Mark
Mattek Pled Guilty in SDNY
Then Time Served, Wisc
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope,
Photos
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 29 – A defendant with
an Yale masters degree pled
guilty to conspiracy to sell
crystal methamphetamine and
liquid GHB on March 29, 2019
in the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
courtroom of
Judge Victor Marrero.
Inner
City Press was
the only media
present and
the plea
colloquy was
the normal
until, first,
the health
questions were
hit. Philip
Weinstein the
lawyer for
defendant -
who we left unnamed
until
checking, and
now publish, Mark
Mattek
- turned and
glared at
Inner City
Press, then
asked to
answer the
question "off
the record."
He
said, "May I
approach."
Judge Marrero
replied, quiet
naturally,
that then it
would be on
the record in
front of the
court
reporter.
Everything the
lawyer said
was audible,
although we
still withhold it
from
compassion.
Weinstein
returned to
counsel's table and
next up was
reference to a
cooperation
agreement,
did the
defendant with
his masters
degree
understand it.
Yes.
There
was a cursory
allocution, the
government
saying the
drugs and cash were found
in Mattek's
apartment
which was on
West 46th
Street - and
then a request that
the transcript
of the
proceeding,
which had been
open, be
sealed.
This
seemed strange; Inner
City Press in
an abundance
of caution or
responsibility
withheld
identifying
information
until, without
electronics in the
courthouse, it was
able to
in-person ask
about the
rules. If it's
open,
it's open.
And so now, in
August 2021,
Inner City
Press
revisited the
case. It was
transferred to
the Eastern
District of
Wisconsin;
quietly, Mattek was
given a time served
sentence with
a number of entries
in the dockets
listed as sealed.
We aim
to have more
on this.
The case in
SDNY is, or
was, US v.
Mattek, 18-cr-161
(Marrero).
Now in the
Eastern
District of
Wisconsin,
it's US v.
Mattek,
21-cr-30...
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