| After
Guilty
Verdicts In
Trial of
Yakubov for
Jewel Theft
Laundering US
Wants 78-91
Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 1 –
Stanislav
Yakubov was on
trial for
money
laundering in
connection
with thefts of
expensive
jewelry in the
Diamond
District in
Manhattan, and
in Queens.
On
January 26,
2023 U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Edgardo Ramos
was presiding
over the trial
in large
Courtroom 318
of 40 Foley
Square. Inner
City Press
went and
covered it.
On the witness
stand was a
cooperator,
Michols Pena.
His
cooperation
agreement was
shown, going
beyond the
crimes in the
case to 25
DUIs, five
fare beating
and some some
20
fights.
Pena
was shown
redacted
copies of
transcripts of
his
appearances
before SDNY
Judge Alvin K.
Hellerstein,
marked
"sealed."
He
was questioned
by AUSA Chan
about the
money
laundering,
through the
Colosseum in
Queens, (well)
over
$10,000.
Now that the
transcripts
have been
shown in open
court - made
public, albeit
with
redactions
which were
explained as
to withhold
irrelevant
information
from the jury
- on what
basis could
they remain
sealed in the
docket?
On
January 31,
the Assistant
US Attorney's
closing
argument
zeroed in on
transaction
money
laundering,
and false
statements to
law
enforcement.
For the stolen
watches, he
said, there
were no
receipts and
no IDs.
Yakubov's
recorded
conversation
with Guzman
was shown, in
transcript
form - no
checks,
either.
On
February 1,
the jury
returned a
guilty verdict
today against
STANISLAV
YAKUBOV, a/k/a
“Steve,” on
three counts
in a
Superseding
Indictment,
including one
count of money
laundering
conspiracy and
two counts of
making false
statements to
federal law
enforcement
agents.
YAKUBOV is
scheduled to
be sentenced
on June 1,
2023, by U.S.
District Judge
Edgardo Ramos,
who presided
over the
eight-day
trial.
On
September 1,
the
prosecutors
asked for a
full
guidelines
sentence for
Yakubov:
between 78 and
91 months.
They say "to
this day, the
defendant has
never taken
responsibility
for his
crimes.... The
defendant is
not a martyr."
The
case is US v.
Yakubov,
22-cr-206
(Ramos)
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