Before Racketeering Trial
Lawyer Letter Was Partially
Unsealed Now Depo & CCTV
Denied
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Aug 30 – Carlos Ramirez faces
a racketeering conspiracy
trial to start September 8,
2024. In late March his
Criminal Justice Act lawyer
wrote in ex parte to the
judge, disclosing a possible
conflict of interest and
arguing it should not bar him
from the case and trial.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jesse M. Furman, to his
credit, made the letter
public, with some redactions.
Previously, Judge
Furman granted an application
by Inner City Press to unseal
defendant Michael Avenatti's
CJA financial affidavit (while
suggesting the issue should be
systematized at an
administrative level - it has
not been. In the recent
Honduras narcotics case and
trial, one defendant's
affidavit was unsealed on
Inner City Press' motion,
while another such motion
still sits unruled upon).
In this
case, Ramirez' counsel at some
point reached out to
co-defendant Miguel Genoa's
CJA lawyer, which whom he had
worked on US v. Alexei Saab (a
Hezbollah trial Inner City
Press covered).
She sought advice
on - a topic that remains
redacted. But at least the
rest of the letter is now
public.
Late on April 12
the Assistant US Attorney on
the case wrote in to "update
the Court on its efforts to
local and deliver to the
defendant, who is now detained
at the Hudson County
Correctional Facility any
property that the defendant
possessed at the MDC where he
was detained though earlier
this year... They have been
unable to locate any
property." They say they are
sending the discovery on an
external hard drive. Judge
Furman denied all requests.
On August 2,
2024, Judge Furman to his
credit put into the docket
three letters from Ramirez,
about conditions in the MDC
(and MCC before it), arguing
for a dismissal and requesting
all of its discovery.
On August 30
Judge Furman denied Ramirez'
motion to depose "an unnamed
witness who was previously
deported from the US" who he
said would testify that the
alleged murder of Jordanny
Correa "was not gang related
by related to a personal
dispute between Carlos Ramirez
and others." No deposition,
and no testimony via CCTV. The
trial is set to start
September 9.
The case
is US v. Ramirez,
20-cr-22 (Furman)
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