For
Urologist Paduch Proposed Suretor
DOJ Sealed Press Opposed Now
Sealed Exhibits
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTROOM,
April 29 – Urologist
Darius Paduch
was arrested
and arraigned
on April 11,
2023. Inner
City Press was
there.
U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Sarah L.
Cave held
Paduch's
arraignment.
Though Paduch
had filled out
the affidavit
to get a
publicly paid
lawyer, the
CJA on duty
David Stern
said he was
for now only
representing
him for the
presentment,
and possibly
to put
together
co-signers for
a bail
package. He
consented to
detention.
Paduch
was in a t-shirt,
with left arm
tattoos and boots
untied, now
without laces.
Stern said
there are many
medical
issues.
The bail
application,
Stern said,
may be Monday.
Judge Cave
notes that she
will no longer
be presiding
in the Mag
Court then.
But Inner City
Press will be
there.
More
including analysis
on Substack here
The
prosecutors
said:
From at least
in or about
2015 through
at least in or
about 2019,
PADUCH, while
working as a
urologist,
enticed and
induced
multiple
victims to
travel to his
medical
offices at
Medical
Institution-1,
so PADUCH
could, among
other things,
sexually abuse
the
victims.
In or about
2019, PADUCH
began
practicing at
a different
hospital
located in
Long Island,
New York
(“Medical
Institution-2”),
where he
continued to
sexually abuse
patients."
On April 19
Paduch's
counsel submitted
a letter to
Magistrate
Judge Jennifer
E. Willis
for release on
bail, attaching
his TIAA
retirement ($1,500,000)
Citibank home
equity
($400,000) and
name of his
life partner
and proposed
co-signer,
Robert
Lischer. "The
couple is also
parenting a
nine year old
son they
adopted
together in
2020."
Another
proposed
co-signer: Jordan
Roosma; "he
met Dr. Paduch
as a patient
at 13 years
old." Also, Paduch's
cousin
Jadwiga
Wojcik,
employed at
Greene, Tweed
& Company.
But he
was denied.
On May
16, Paduch's
counsel filed the
motion,
stating that Paduch "has
a loving
husband,
Robert
Lischer, and a
son, William.
He currently resides
in North Bergen, New
Jersey... a very
different
defendant than
Jeffrey Epstein."
On May
24, the bail
hearing. Inner
City Press was
there, thread
here.
On
December 21,
Paduch's
counsel
wrote in that
the AUSA
Attorney's
Office
conveyed to
him that "JR"
wanted his
name redacted.
Inner
City Press had
already
published it,
above: Jordan
Roosma.
On
December 22
Judge Abrams
temporarily
redacted the
entirety of
the paragraph,
at least until
January 5, while
noting Judge
Kaplan's granting
of Inner City
Press'
application to
unseal SBF's suretors.
This
as the US
Attorney's
Office
similarly "takes no
position" on
the
sealing of all
of OneCoin convict
Sebastian Greenwood's
sentencing
letter, which
has required
Inner City
Press to waste
its time (and money
- a $405
filing fee)
appealing to
the Second
Circuit.
There are
other cases in
the
SDNY were
after-the-fact sealing
is causing
free press
problems. In US v.
Paduch,
on January 2
Inner City
Press filed
opposition, docketed
on January 3
(and now on
our
DocumentCloud
here
On
April 29 in Courtroom
218, Paduch's
lawyer was
questioning a
doctor on the
witness stand.
It was unwieldy, as
the patients
being asked
about were
all by
pseudonym, but the
lists
they had were
of real names.
The lawyer went over to
retrieve a
binder of
exhibits -
which he said
were all sealed.
Inner
City Press
will be
staying on the
case(s).
The case is US
v. Paduch,
23-cr-181
(Abrams)
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