Inner City Press





In Other Media-eg New Statesman, AJE, FP, Georgia, NYTAzerbaijan, CSM Click here to contact us     .



These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis
,



Share |   

Follow on TWITTER

Home -

These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis

CONTRIBUTE

(FP Twitterati 100, 2013)

ICP on YouTube

More: InnerCityPro

BloggingHeads.tv
Sept 24, 2013

UN: Sri Lanka

VoA: NYCLU

FOIA Finds  

Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UN - Update - Editorial

Support this work by buying this book

Click on cover for secure site orders

also includes "Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City"
 

 

 


Community
Reinvestment

Bank Beat

Freedom of Information
 

How to Contact Us



In Slip and Fall Fraud Trial of Dowd Driver Describes Recovery Room Payments, Financing

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY Mag

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 28 – Andrew Dowd and George Constantine face trial on November 28, on charges springing from a slip and fall fraud scheme. Inner City Press has been covering the case and will report on the trial.  

 On November 25, 2022, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Sidney H. Stein received an argument to limit cross-examination of a government Witness-12, consistent with limitations he imposed in US v. Bryan Duncan, another case covered by Inner City Press.  

The government wrote, "The Court should preclude cross-examination on the limited fact that Witness-12's 2021 conviction involved the attempted possession of a firearm because it is ... high prejudicial and risks inflaming the jury, consistent with the ruling of the Court in US v. Bryan Duncan, 18-cr-289 (SHW). Kalkanis from that trial will figure in this one.

On November 28, Inner City Press was in the courtroom at 5 pm when the 16 jurors (four are alternates) were selected, and again after they left when, in ruling in motions in limine, Judge Stein excluded amended tax returns as remedial and irrelevant. But what about legitimate slip and fall patients?

On November 29, the government's first witness was on the stand, with a non-prosecution agreement. He acknowledged that before faking a knee injury, he'd actually hurt his knee. That was real, he insisted. He was asked about accompanying girlfriend Colette Ford to a trip and fall, and that she lied at the hospital. But was she really hurt?

On re-direct, he was asked about "Doctor K" briefing him before he met with the defendants. Next witness may or may not be CW-3 Gordon.

It was. On November 30 he testified matter of the factly about driving surgery prospects around. They got paid $1500 per surgery, with the payments sometimes made in the recovery room. The cases settled for $100,000 to $150,000 dollars. Reference was made to litigation funder Adrian Alexander, and Sady Ribeiro, both named in the indictment in this case. (Marc Elefant has been pushing his sentencing back, now to March 2, 2023).

The trial continues.

 The case is US v. Constantine, et al., 21-cr-530 (Stein).

***

Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron.

sdny

Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
SDNY Press Room 480, front cubicle
500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA

Mail: Box 20047, Dag Hammarskjold Station NY NY 10017

Reporter's mobile (and weekends): 718-716-3540



Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.

 Copyright 2006-2022 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com