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OneCoin Launderer Mark Scott Now Freed To Home in Coral Gables Where Inner City Press Exposed Dinner

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SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 30 -- For money laundering for scam crypto currency OneCoin, lawyer Mark Scott was convicted by a jury after testimony by Konstantin Ignatov and others but was allowed to remain free on bail pending sentencing.

  Inner City Press which covered the trial including Konstantin Ignatov's testimony then on December 6, 2019 reported from its South Florida sources that despite ostensibly being on home incarceration Scott was "living the high life in Florida including being spotted out to dinner with body guards... Meanwhile Gilbert Armenta, fellow money launderer, is out and registering even more companies, the same as he did for his OneCoin money laundering bank in Georgia" - the country, not the US state. 

  On March 30 Mark Scott, after being briefing detained, was released on bond again security by his Coral Gables apartment; under a now standard condition he is required to get an iPhone for remove supervision.

 And on March 13, Konstantin Ignatov was released from Federal prison. Photo here. Notable is that even his sentencing proceeding was not announced on PACER, unlike other cooperators who get time served, such as on March 13 cooperator Ceruti, Inner City Press story here.

  So who decides which cooperators' sentencings are announced, and which are hidden? Rapper Tekashi #6ix9ine / Daniel Hernandez' sentencing before SDNY Judge Paul A. Engelmayer was announced, and Inner City Press live tweeted it. Konstantin Ignatov's happened in secret. Who does this benefit? And why does the US Attorney's Office Press Office not answer basic questions, or provide exhibits even when ordered (albeit orally) by a Judge, here Judge Engelmayer? We'll have more on this.

 In a parallel world on March 12 the US Attorney's Office belatedly moved to revoke Scott's bail, citing Scott's continue use of OneCoin derived funds and, explicitly, Inner City Press' "blog post" about Scott dining out in Florida while on home incarceration. 

 Assistant US Attorney Chris Demase said they have first read out it in the blog post and couldn't believe it - but that it was proved by GPS information from Scott's location monitoring ankle bracelet.  

  Mark Scott's Florida based lawyer David M. Garvin sputtered over the telephone from Florida, with Scott next to him, that the dinner had involved lawyers. He tried to explain Scott's use of OneCoin funds. But Scott was ordered to turn himself in to the US Bureau of Prisons on March 13. And on that day, Konstantin Ignatov was released. Strange symmetry.

Another of his lawyers, when Inner City Press left the courtroom, was arranging to pay for a transcript, perhaps to appeal. Inner City Press on March 13 asked the US Attorney's Office Press Office for its filings not yet in the public docket.  Here is Inner City Press' Periscope video upon leaving the courthouse. The case is US v. Scott, 17-cr-630 (Ramos). 

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