| After
Mass Arrests in COVID Loan Scheme by NYC
Staff US Asks Probation for Phya Scott
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 21 - In the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on November 30, 2022
detention or bond proceedings
were held by Magistrate Judge
Sarah Netburn (and later
Stewart D. Aaron) on
defendants in a COVID loan
fraud conspiracy case.
Inner City
Press was there, often the
only media in the Mag Court.
The complaint is on its
DOcumentCloud, here.
The first
defendant presented was Rodney
Smith. The US Attorney's
Office agreed to release him
on $100,000 unsecured bond; it
was noted that his spouse is
in Florida and he can share
personally identifiable
information with her but not
others.
Presented with
him was NYPD officer Denise
Gant. She got lower bond of
$50,000 and can speak with her
NYPD co-defendants Zhane
Ratcliff and Yolanda
Ratcliffe. She disputed the
pre-trial report about her
pension, stock ownership (she
says she owns no stocks, and
paid $64,000 down for her
apartment). Both both publicly
funded lawyers.
Next up before
Judge Netburn: Ebony Simon
Phya Scott, Priscilla Jackson,
Sharon Charles Yolanda
Lawrence, Yolanda Ratcliff,
and Zhane Ratcliff (NYPD)
Then up before
Judge Aaron in the Magistrates
Court: Brandon Boyle
Delilah Cummings Vashawn
Foreman Trevor Gordon
Dione Hall Toni
McCullough Jarod
Ottley Ronette
Short Edwin
Skepple Walter Susswell
On September 5,
2023, Judge Edgardo Ramos
followed the prosecutors
recommendation and sentenced
Delilah Cummings to two years
probation with six months of
home detention.
On September 29,
2023, before Chief Judge Laura
Taylor Swain, Phya Scott pled
guilty.
On March 20, the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking, on Phya Scott, for
three years of probation,
including six months of home
detention.
Phya Scott's case
is US v. Smith, et al,
23-cr-80 (Swain)
The other case is
US v. Cummings, 23-cr-214
(Ramos)
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