On UN Linked
Burma Murder Plot on Htut US Wants 30
Months Served Still No UN Answers
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Complaint
UN GATE, Feb 5 –
After the Burma coup regime
purported to fired the New
York-based UN ambassador of
Myanmar U Kyaw Moe Tun for his
speech in New York in the
usually scripted UN General
Assembly, two Burmese were
criminally charged with trying
to kill him. One was been
detained, as exclusively live
tweeted by Inner City Press,
below. Inner City Press has
since covered the UN's
complicity with, and French
banks' funding of, the Burma
junta.
On July 7,
days before the trial set to
begin on July 11, the
presiding SDNY judge severed
some counts while moving
forward with the conspiracy. Full 36 page
Order on Patreon here.
Docketed on July
24: "The Jury finds defendant
Phyo Hein Htut Guilty on Count
One. Jury Polled, Verdict
Unanimous. Original signed
Jury Verdict form attached
(marked as Court Ex. #2).
Defendants post-trial motion
briefing schedule is as
follows: moving papers shall
be filed on September 21,
2023; Government's opposition
papers shall be filed on
November 21, 2023; reply
papers shall be filed on
December 6, 2023. The parties
are directed to provide the
Court with two paper courtesy
copies and one set to be
emailed to chambers. PSI is
ordered. Sentencing is
scheduled for March 14, 2024
at 11:30 am."
The sentencing
was moved up to February 8,
2024. On January 25, 2024,
Htut's lawyer wrote in asking
for a sentence of time served
(approximately 30 months).
On February 5,
confusingly, the US Attorney's
Office wrote in that "a
sentence within the stipulated
Guidelines range of 30 to 37
months imprisonment, including
the 30 months recommended by
Probation, would be
sufficient." He has served 30
months, so this appears to be
a request for time served.
Back on August
11, 20 year-old Ye Hein Zaw,
who with a Burmese interpreter
got his income approved on
April 6 as low enough for free
counsel hired a private
attorney, one who is described
as a Wall Street lawyer half
of whose clients are French:
Matthew Galluzzo.
On December
10, a guilty plea: today the
guilty plea of YE HEIN ZAW, a
citizen of Myanmar, for his
role in a conspiracy to
assault and make a violent
attack upon Myanmar’s
Permanent Representative to
the United Nations. ZAW
is scheduled to be sentenced
by Judge Halpern on May 10,
2022."
On March 16,
2022, this: "STIPULATION IN
SUPPORT OF APPLICATION FOR 8TH
OR SUBSEQUENT ORDER OF
CONTINUANCE AND 8TH ORDER OF
CONTINUANCE as to Phyo Hein
Htut. Time excluded from
3/16/2022 until 4/13/2022.
(Signed by Magistrate Judge
Judith C. McCarthy on
3/16/2022)"
Htut asked for US
public money to put on a
witness from Myanmar, who
would say Htut was a pro
democracy activist. The US
said if the unnamed witness is
deposed, it should be in White
Plains. Then, two sealed
documents.
On May 2, Htut
was the subject of a
superseding indictment with
false statements added,
including his claim that he
told people at the Mission
about the threats.
On May 18, 2023,
the US Attorney's Office filed
its motions in limine,
including arguing that Htut
"should not be allowed to
present a duress defense
unless and until he proffers
evidence to the Court that is
sufficient to support such a
defense." Watch this site.
Burma did
not speak at the UNGA High
Level Week, from which UNSG
Antonio Guterres and PGA
Abdulla Shahid banned Inner
City Press.
Burmese
sources consulted by Inner
City Press wondered aloud if
the Thai arms merchant in the
Complaint, or allies, might
have any role. Inner City
Press will keep covering the
case, and asking UNSG Antonio
Guterres' spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming, who don't
answer even a law firm's
pro bono letter, and Linda
Thomas-Greenfield, about
it.
On the afternoon
of August 6 this: Criminal
complaint on Inner City Press'
DocumentCloud here:
the arrests of PHYO HEIN HTUT
and YE HEIN ZAW for conspiracy
to assault and make a violent
attack upon Myanmar’s
Permanent Representative to
the United Nations [Kyaw Moe
Tun].
Inner City
Press managed to find and live
tweet the presentment of Zaw,
here:
At the UN, SG
Guterres removed Burma's or
Myanmar's army from the UN
"list of shame" for recruiting
and using child soldiers,
despite more than 200 cases.
Emboldened by corrupt
Guterres, they are recruiting
and using even more. Now a
call for Guterres, trying to
steal a second term, to
reinstate them on the list -
but from a group which seems
to join Guterres in banning
Inner City Press from (its)
press conference.
This
case is US v.
Htut,
7:22-cr-671
(Roman)
Watch this site.
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