| Another SDNY Sealed
Proceeding For Money Laundering in Miami Diaz
in MCC Until Friday
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 25 -- Amid the
Coronavirus crisis in a sealed
proceeding on March 25 a
defendant referred to as Mr.
Diaz was presented on charges
of money laundering in Miami before
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Sarah L.
Cave.
Judge
Cave earlier
in the
afternoon had
ordered Inner
City Press out
of the
Magistrates
Courtroom on
the motion of
the US
Attorney's
Office.
Now Assistant
US Attorney
Thomas S.
Burnett told
Judge Cave
that he had an
ex parte
application,
and that this
proceeding
should be
sealed and not
docketed.
Without any
written
presentation
viewable by
the Press or
public, the
applications
were all
granted.
The
US is favoring
the release of
Mr. Diaz, but
since he is
from Costa
Rica (it
sounded like),
they need to
find a place
for him to go.
So he will go
to the MCC
until Friday -
hardly the
place for a
cooperator.
AUSA Burnett
also said he
had an ex
parte
application to
disqualify
Federal
Defenders as
conflicted. He
said that
there were
three others
presented on
money
laundering in
Miami charges,
once
represented by
FD, and that
Diaz used the
same company.
So how
hard is this,
to
triangulate?
What is the
basis of this
sealing and
secrecy? Judge
Cave asked for
nothing more
than an
update,
probably also
confidential,
in six months.
How many cases
/ defendants /
cooperators
like this are
there?
Watch this
site.
Juan Marcos Matos
Ruiz was presented not in
person but by video on charges
of money laundering Brazil
bribes,
Judge Cave,
an interpreter, Assistant US
Attorney Benet J. Kearney and
Inner City Press were all in
SDNY Courtroom 24B, the new
Magistrates Court complete
with social distancing and a
big bottle of Purell hand
sanitizer.
But Juan
Marcos Matos Ruiz was in
Florida, were he was ordered
to not be employed by his
Matos LCC and to have no
contact with Premier X and
Premier RX.
In the complaint he is
described as taking a 15%
commission on all laundered
funds. The case is US v.
Chocron, et al., 20-mj-2246
(Cave).
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