| In Wirecard
Trial of Weigand & Akhavan OneCoin
Note As Judge Rakoff Lays Down Law
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 9 – The trial of US v.
Weigand and Akhavan began
before Judge Jed S. Rakoff in
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on March 1. Inner City
Press, which has been covering
the case including its
Wirecard aspects, live tweeted
Day 1, here
and below. Now on March 9 it
has connected back up to the
OneCoin crypto fraud - and the
US has explained Hargreaves'
phones, 8-page filing on
Patreon here.
On March 2,
evidence began - and witnesses
with immunity deals.
(Tassone's immunity deal is
now on Patreon, here).
Inner City Press tweeted in
Day 2, here.
Day Four
began with news, tweeted
by Inner City Press, that a
juror had tested positive for
COVID, and ended with cooperator
Oliver Hargreaves on the
stand.
Day Five,
things took off. The remaining
13 jurors all tested negative
and when Hargreaves testified,
first about fake website for
golf equipment and facial
cream, he soon turned to the
meat: Wirecard and Jan
Marsalek, live tweeted thread
below. Inner City Press has
asked the US Attorney's Office
to make available the
exhibits, as is done in other
cases. So far, nothing. Some
live tweets from the thread, here
and below.
On March 9,
world's collided. Hargreaves
on cross examination admitted
he and his boss Gary Murphy
had dealt with OneCoin
crypto-Ponzi money launderer
Gilbert Armenta, whom Inner
City Press has covered,
including exclusive reporting
on Armenta's ongoing
businesses. Inner City Press
retweeted from the cross here
and below.
March 9
ended, after the jury left,
with Judge Rakoff admonishing
one of Weigand's lawyers not
to himself testify, for
example that "you left on a
flight the same day you
arrived") and not to tell the
jury that the prosecution
would be recommending
Hargreaves' sentence to the
judge. "That's now how it
works in our District."
The
cross-examination of
Hargreaves, half an hour more
for Weigand and then Akhavan,
will continue on March 10,
starting at 10:15 am.
In Wirecard
/ Eaze trial of US
v. Weigand, cooperator Oliver
Hargreaves just admitted that
his boss Gary Murphy was
working with Gilbert Amenta,
on whom Inner City Press has
exclusively reported in
connection with #OneCoin, here.
Defense
lawyer: You knew Armenta's
money was illegal, correct?
Hargreaves: Yes.
Defense: And you
knew about OneCoin, correct?
Hargreaves: Yes. Defense: And
a connection between Gary
Murphy and Armenta, right?
Hargreaves: Yes.
Defense lawyer:
And you knew OneCoin was a
Ponzi, right?
AUSA: Objection [! why?]
Judge Rakoff:
It's his opinion. Hargreaves:
Yes. OneCoin was a crypto
currency fraud.
Defense lawyer:
You were getting involved with
Armenta to get involved in
laundering illegal gambling
money, right? Hargreaves: I
wanted to do well for my
company.
Defense lawyer:
Armenta had a bank in Georgia,
right?
Hargreaves: Yes,
I think so.
To be
continued.
From March 8:
Hargreaves is reading out in
court his message with Jan
Marsalek of Wirecard.
Hargreaves quotes
Marsalek saying, stop sending
to this ProtonMail, send it to
"EUprocessing."
Hargreaves wrote, EU
[Processing] equals Ruben"
[Weigand]
AUSA: Who is the
deleted account?
Hargreaves: Can I
see the page before? It's
Ray's.
Assistant US
Attorney: For which acquiring
banks did you prepare
fraudulent application packs?
Hargreaves:
Wirecard...
The case is US
v. Weigand,
20-cr-188
(Rakoff).
***
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