| As AG Garland Talks
Fentanyl and Hate Crimes Court
Transparency Duties of DOJ
Unaddressed
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Nov 27 – When US Attorney
General Merrick Garland came
to New York City on November
27 his stated focus was not on
the financial crimes that
consume so much media coverage
but on guns and fentanyl and
now, amid the Gaza war, hate
crimes.
Unmentioned, but
by the Press outside, was the
Department of Justice's duties
on court transparency in their
criminal cases.
Defendant after
defendant, in asking to seal
sentencing letters and even
memo, says that "the
Government takes no
position."
But it should.
Take for example Binance's
Changpeng Zhao's bond
co-signers, still sealed in
the U.S. District Court for
the Western District of
Washington. These same suretor
documents, Inner City Press
filed to unseal as to Sam
Bankman-Fried. Southern
District of New York Judge
Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that
they had to be unsealed. But
DOJ takes no position on
CZ's?
OneCoin
co-founder Sebastian Greenwood
filed all of his sentencing
letters under seal, and SDNY
prosecutors took no position.
Now Inner City Press has filed
a Notice of Appeal, and SDNY a
notice of appearance. To keep
the letters
sealed?
On November 28,
we'll learn DOJ's position on
the complete sealing of narco
defendant Tomas Colon's
sentencing memo. The list goes
on.
Law
enforcement officials in
attendance were NYPD
Commissioner Edward Caban,
U.S. Marshal Ralph Sozio,
Christie Curtis, Robert
Kissane, Anthony Bivona, Eric
Reese, Paul Roberts, Frank
Tarantino, Ivan Arevalo of HSI
Investigations, Patrick
Freaney, Thomas Fantorusso,
and John De Vito.
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