| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Charriez
Goes from CJA to Retained Now 15
Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 7 – For days Inner City
Press had heard from its
sources there would be a
"takedown" on February 6, each
SDNY Magistrate Judge would
handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at
6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City
Press tweeted it, first to X
subscribers with the spoiler
alert: the expectation was
that each of the current or
former NYCHA employees would
be released on bond the same
day.
And then hours
later at 9:39 am the
prosecutors announced it.
Media rushed around reporting
it. Inner City Press had
it first, and after discretely
waiting, published it first.
Then this thread of
presentments, here.
On February 16,
Inner City Press was in the
Magistrates Court when Angela
Williams appeared before
Magistrate Judge Valerie
Figueredo. Williams was
arrested in North Carolina -
she retired from NYCHA a year
ago. She used to work at the
Farragut Houses.
On February 20 in
the Mag Court, NYCHA defendant
Elizabeth Tapia formerly of
the Marlboro Houses and
Ingersoll Houses in Brooklyn,
who first appeared with
retained counsel, came in and
got appointed a taxpayer
funded CJA lawyer.
Docketed on
February 26, another defendant
Rigoberto Charriez (previously
of NYCHA's Ocean Hill,
Saratoga Village, Richmond
Terrace, Pink, Berry and
Tompkins Houses) went the
other way, from CJA counsel to
one retained.
Jump cut to
January 6, 2025 when Charriez
was sentenced to 15 months and
$70,000 restitution.
The case is USA
v. Charriez, 1:24-cr-446
(Torres)
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