| Man Charged with Fake Law Firm To
Embezzle Architect Gets Bail after MDC
Anti-Gay Threats
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTROOM
Exclusive, June 7 –
In the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York on March 2,
2023 bail or
detention
proceedings were
held by
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein
on a couple
charged with
setting up a
fake law firm
to embezzle
over $90,000
from a
Manhattan architectural
firm.
The
defendants are
Matthew Blake
Morrow-Wu with
many aliases,
and his
husband Shangzehn
Wu.
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The
Assistant US
Attorney based
his argument
on risk of
flight,
emphasizing
trips to
China, and
Morrow-Wu's
rap sheet. His
Federal
Defender said
that
conditions for
release could
be crafted.
Judge
Gorenstein
after a break
had ordered
Morrow-Wu
detained,
citing his
previously
violations of
trust and
absconding,
but offered
release to
Shengzhen Wu
if he can find
two financial
responsible
people as
co-signers on
a $50,000
bond; $5000
cash must be
put up, he
ruled. He did
not bar the
spouses from
communicating.
On
June 7, 2023,
Matthew
Morrow-Wu's
bail appeal
was heard. His
Federal
Defender had
put into the
record a
handwritten
note to him,
"Hey white
boy, I like
you and I hear
your [sic]
gay... I will
approach you
when the time
is
right."
Judge
Hellerstein
was amenable
to release on
bail - and
asked that it
be before the
end of the
day.
More
on Substack here
The
case is US v.
Morrow-Wu, et
al., 23-cr-90
(Hellerstein)
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