| In SDNY Murky Mag Court
Burma Notice Mulled For Contraband Cigarette
Defendant
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon Scope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 2 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed, 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.
Forgetting
for a moment
that the
country asks
that it be
called Myanmar
(even as it
slaughters
the Rohingya),
the government
pointed out
that Liu is a
naturalized US
citizen - and
apparently
postman - and
that unlike
for example
Russia no
treaty
requires
consular
notification.
Incongruously,
the
interpreter
Liu had was
said to be
speaking
Cantonese.
We'll have
more on this.
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.
Another
VOSR: "DANTE
PLUMMER
VOSR
15-cr-95."
Inner
City Press
went to the
Mag Court and
found that
this
defendant,
young looking,
wanted to be bailed out
to his mother,
who works at a
nursing
home in
Greenwich, Connecticut.
While out on
supervised
release he was
found in New
Jersey, the
prosecutors
said, with
marijuana and
felons, and
charged with a
crime called
"criminal
simulation."
He was bailed
out, witt
Judge Moses
telling him
that a third
chance will
likely not be
given.ge
For
another
example, "CATALIVO
LOPEZ
NARCOTICS
18-cr-219."
Inner City
Press went to
the Mag court
and found that
this defendant
was arrested
in Massachusetts,
while living
openly in
Providence,
Rhode Island,
on an
indictment that
had been
sealed. So
how, exactly,
was he a fugitive,
if the
indictment
against him
was sealed?
The government
said he once
gave an
address in a
traffic stop
at which, some
unspecified
time later, he
was not found
at. This
Assistant US
Attorney,
filling in for
others but not
given the
information,
was not done
any favors. He
handled it
with good
humor.
Meanwhile
three more
grand jury
indictments
were signed
off on by
Judge Moses:
US v Carroll,
assigned to
Judge Vernon
Broderick, and
US v. Minaya,
Assigned to
Chief Judge
McMahon via
Wheel A. The
third grand
jury
indictment,
which involved
warrants, was
declared fully
sealed. Inner
City Press
will have more
on this, the
sealing of
warrant
information by
SDNY even
later in
cases.
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