#6ix9ine
Carjacker Ellison Is On Trial For MCC
Bribes As Cooperator Describes Hiding
Phones
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
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BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- Vulture
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 26 – Daniel Hernandez
a/k/a Tekashi 6ix9ine was
sentenced to 24 months of
total imprisonment in a
proceeding live
tweeted by Inner City
Press before U.S. District
Court Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer.
Now
Hernandez' co-defendant and
car-jacker Anthony Ellison
a/k/a Harv, already serving a
long sentence, has been
indicted again for a smuggle
conspiracy while in the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center. The prosecutors on
November 4 announced:
unsealing of an indictment
charging three current or
former Bureau of Prisons
(“BOP”) employees, as well as
eight former inmates of the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center (“MCC”), of conspiring
to smuggle contraband such as
drugs, alcohol, and cellphones
to inmates at the MCC. Two of
the BOP employees were also
charged with obstructing
justice. Four of the
defendants were arrested today
and will be presented before
Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave
later today. During the course
of the scheme, in an effort to
obtain a lesser sentence for
ELLISON, GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT
submitted a letter to the
District Judge responsible for
sentencing inmate and
co-defendant ELLISON that
falsely described ELLISON as a
“model inmate” even though at
the time GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT was
smuggling contraband to
ELLISON and therefore knew he
was anything but a “model
inmate.” Relying on this
letter from GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT,
the District Judge who
presided over ELLISON’s
sentencing remarked that
ELLISON’s purported good
behavior in prison was
“impressive” and that
“[u]nless this is some sort of
Grisham novel, and people are
all corrupt and making all of
this up about [ELLISON], it
seems to me that it’s
unavoidable that [ELLISON’s]
trajectory at the MCC contains
a lot of good.”
Inner City Press
went to the detention of
release hearings of
Griffith-McKnight, lead
defendant Perry Joyner and
another inmate, Valerio, and
live tweeted it here
and here
(podcast here)
OK- detention
hearing on David Valerio, US
says he admitted wiring money
to MCC prson guard to not
search his cell
AUSA says Valerio
admitted wiring to also
indicted guard Mario Felciano.
Magistrate Judge Cave says he
will be detained OK- hearing
on Corrections Officer Perry
Joyner for allegedly bringing
in contraband to the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center
Unlike briber
Vslerio, detained, US is
agreeing to release (ex) guard
Joyner on $300,000 bond, no
contact with nemed
individuals. His mother is a
C.O. as well. He is hiring a
private lawyer.
Next up,
the defendant Inner City Press
focused on earlier today:
"trying for a lesser sentence
for [Harv] ELLISON,
GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT submitted a
letter to the District Judge
describing ELLISON as a “model
inmate” even though she was
smuggling contraband to him"
All counsel
disappeared into Mag Court
chambers. After a time, they
returned. Judge said it was
just to save time...
DOJ is
agreeing to release this ex
guard, unlike Harv Ellison and
Valerio, on $150,000 bond.
Here's
a photo of Griffith-McKnight's
letter to Judge Engelmayer.
The case was assigned to Judge
Andrew L. Carter.
Jump cut to
October 26 when this was
docketed: "Minute Entry for
proceedings held before Judge
Andrew L. Carter,
Jr:Arraignment as to Anthony
Ellison (6) Count 1s,3s and
Starlin Nunez (11) Count 1s,2s
held on 10/19/2023.
Defendants arraigned and enter
pleas of NOT GUILTY to the
Superseding Indictment. Jury
Trial & Selection set for
11/20/23 at 10 a.m."
On November 28,
Inner City Press attended the
trial, opening and then the
prosecutor's critique. Counsel
for Starlin Nunez referred to
the cooperating witnesses as
rats who made a deal with the
Devil.
Later,
outside the presence of the
jury, the AUSA noted this, and
argued that to compare the
gravity of the cooperators'
admitted crimes with those the
defendants are being tried for
is akin to nullification.
Judge Carter said he would
address things as they arose,
that invoking the Devil might
be inappropriate but the use
of the word rat, at least in
closing argument, probably was
not.
On November 29,
cooperator Alamo was on the
stand, describing how he was
moved to Tier 9 and hid the
cellphone he bought in the
wall behind defendant Starlin
Nunez' bed. We said everyone
used CashApp, and some
cigarettes were broken up
during boofing...
The trial continues.
The case is
US
v. Joyner, et al., 21-cr-673,
(Carter). More on Patreon here.
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