| Tax Prep Staffer Charged
With Money Laundering Is Freed as Bank
Disclosure Denied
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 19
– A woman charged with money
laundering the proceeds of
wire fraud was presented and
had a bond hearing on March 19
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Gary
Stein. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag Court.
The wire
fraud was crude: calling
people and telling them their
phone service or utilities
were about to be cut off,
unless then sent money. But
the woman, it emerged, works
in a tax preparation business,
and apparently will continue
to.
The
Assistant US Attorney asked
that she be ordered to provide
information about her bank
accounts to Pre Trial
Services.
Judge Stein said
this went too far, and might
become moot (presumably if the
bank or banks find out about
the charges and close the
accounts).
The woman
was freed on bond and ordered
not to speak with her
co-defendant without counsel
present.
The case is
US v. Zapata, et al.,
24-mj-1017 (Stein)
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