| North Korea Crypto Defendant
Griffith To Challenge SDNY Venue After Sealed
Subpoena
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 18 – Virgil
Griffith, charged with
violating North Korea
sanctions in connection with a
crypto-currency conference
there, will now seek to get
the case moved for lack of
venue out of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New
York.
This emerged at a
telephone conference in the
case on May 18. Griffith's
defense lawyer Brian E. Klein
said he is ready to file a
motion on venue as early as
this Friday May 22, based on "ex
parte, in camera"
filings he made with SDNY
Judge P. Kevin Castel.
Inner City Press, which has
covered the case from
Griffith's first appearance in
the SDNY Magistrates Court to
his Christmas holiday legal
moves to get released to home
confinement in Alabama, will
be seeking the still-sealed
documents in this criminal
case. The docket says that on
May 7, "Sealed document placed
in vault."
It appears that the U.S.
Attorney's office told Klein
in a May 15 phone call that
its basis for SDNY venue was
an email Griffith sent to the
North Korean diplomatic
mission in New York, which
Inner City Press has also
visited.
Klein's recitation of the May
15 call, confirmed by
Assistant US Attorney Kyle A.
Wirshba, was preceded by Klein
seeking ex parte -
that is, under seal - a
subpoena, to which a response
has been made.
Judge
Castel set the deadline for
the venue motion for May 27,
with opposition June 10 and
reply June 17. The next
conference in the case is set
for July 23. Inner City Press
has will have more than - or,
we hope, before.
The case is US v.
Griffith, 20-cr-15
(Castel).
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