| For Do Kwon Trial Now Set
for Feb 17 2026 DOJ Memo Cited so
Do Kwon May File Motion
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 10 – After the collapse
of the crypto firm Terraform
Labs, Inner City Press covered
the SEC's trial against it and
Do Kwon - except that Kwon was
in Montenegro. Now, Do
Kwon book here
Early on
January 2, 2025 Inner City
Press learned and vlogged that
Kwon would be presented later
in the day before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger.
The superseding
indictment, Inner City Press
immediately put it online here
Just after noon
Do Kwon was presented and pled
not guilty, was detained, thread
The case was
reassigned to Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer to whom the US
Attorney's Office on January 6
directed a victims' notice
motion, on Patreon here
On January 8
Judge Engelmayer held a
conference and set a January
26, 2026 trial date, among
many other things. Inner City
Press pressed and live
tweeted, thread
On February
27-28, the US Attorney's
Office put in a four page
letter describing discovery
(including documents from a
country left unnamed), and
proposed adjourning the
upcoming status conference.
Filing on Patreon here
On April 10 Inner
City Press live tweeted the
status conference at which
trial was pushed back to
February 17, next conference
to June 12, and this:
Judge Engelmayer:
Let's turn to the Deputy
Attorney General's memo and if
it has any implication for the
case. The memo as reported
says something about
prosecutions where an issue is
whether a digital asset is a
security. AUSA: We are aware
of the memo
AUSA Lenow: For
now we do not have an
intention to change the
charges. Judge Engelmayer: To
the degree there is an
internal process, do what you
can to move it along so that
it comes to rest. It is an
Executive Branch internal
issue.
Do Kwon's lawyer
David Patton: We may file a
motion.
More / extra on X
for Subscribers here,
Patreon (with earlier US case
status summary) here
Amid talk of the
Administration's
crypto executive
order and now
DOJ memo
- and before the
SEC moved to
drop its case
against Coinbase
- Inner City
Press published
a book: "Crypto
Death Spiral:
Could a Luna
Rise Again?" by
Matthew Russell
Lee, ebook here, audiobook here.
Watch this site
The case is USA
v. Kwon, 1:23-cr-151
(Engelmayer)
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