| Man Charged With Tax Lien
Bank Fraud Moved to Dismiss Now
Denies Superseding Indictment
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Sept 3 – Just before Christmas
in 2023 DOJ announced the
arrest of JOHN ARTHUR HANRATTY
for charges in connection with
a fraudulent scheme to steal
money from a Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”)-insured bank through
lines of credit totaling $20
million granted to HANRATTY’s
municipal tax lien investment
firm. HANRATTY was
arrested this morning and is
expected to be presented today
before a U.S. Magistrate Judge
in the District of Puerto
Rico.
Hanratty
was released on $2 million
bond. A post indictment
restraining order was imposed,
against transferring any
assets. He filed a motion to
dismiss, and then the
superseding indictment, which
prosecutors wrote they
"believe addresses the
concerns raised in the
defendant's motion to
dismiss."
Jump cut to
September 3, 2024, when
Hanratty - not in detention -
came in to plead not guilty to
a superseding indictment
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Valerie
Figueredo. Inner City Press
was there, the only media in
the SDNY Mag court.
With
retained counsel, Hanratty
pleaded not guilty. The next
date is October 15 before the
assigned District Judge, Lorna
G. Schofield.
The case is US v.
Hanratty, 24-cr-153 (Schofield
/ Figueredo)
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