| As SDNY Indicted Gao for
$30 Million Real Estate Fraud
Agrees to Release and Florida Trip
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 13 – At 1 pm on Thursday
it was announced that Danielle
Sassoon, the United States
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York announced
today the arrest of KEVIN FENG
GAO charged with bank fraud as
part of a scheme to steal $30
million intended as an
investment in Manhattan real
estate. GAO will be presented
today before U.S. Magistrate
Judge Stewart D. Aaron.
Inner City
Press went to the presentment,
the only media in the SDNY Mag
Court. Thread:
All rise!
Judge Stewart D. Aaron: Time
of arrest? AUSA: 7 am this
morning, in Queens.
Einhorn, citing
Jeffrey Lichtman: Mr Gao
pleads not guilty.
AUSA: Next
conference Feb 27 before Judge
Engelmayer. We agree to
release today on $150,000
bond, two co-signers within a
week
AUSA: We agree to
travel...
Defense: ...to
Orlando, Florida next week,
with kids and wife [who is
here in the courtroom, in
ponytail and glasses]
Judge: OK.
Adjourned
During the
proceeding, Inner City Press
learned that acting US
Attorney Sassoon had resigned,
rather than move to dismiss
the indictment of NYC Mayor
Eric Adams.
The Gao
case is USA v. Gao, 1:25-cr-53
(Engelmayer)
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