| Accused of Forgery in
Angola While Working For GE
Detained Man Will Move to Dismiss
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 26 – A former GE
executive now detained on wire
fraud and aggravated identity
theft charges appeared on
March 26 before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge P.
Kevin Castel. Inner City Press
was there, the only media in
the courtroom.
Wilson Daniel
Freita Da Costa was in the
green jail jumpsuit of the
Hudson County Correctional
Facility.
His lawyer said
he intends to move to dismiss
the indictment in the next
week, on grounds of the
extraterritorial application
of the wire fraud statute to
conduct in Angola, and
apparently the statute of
limitations.
The lawyer
said the PhotoShop / forgery
charged took place long ago.
If the motion to dismiss
fails, he said, he will ask
for release on bail pending
trial.
The case is
US v. Freita Da Costa,
23-cr-610 (Castel)
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