| Woman Charged for
Blackmail Arrested Trying to Fly
to China Detained to Monday in
SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
June 14 –A woman arrested at 1
am Saturday while trying to
fly to China after a Federal
search warrant was executed on
her home resulting in
blackmail charges was brought
into court by US Marshals
Saturday afternoon.
Inner City
Press was there, in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court, which it
covers closely.
The SDNY
prosecutor recounted how the
defendant's travel to China
had been booked at the last
minute, and how she had
refused to open her door to
the agents with the warrant,
and tried to hide electronic
devices, giving rise to a
second count in the Complaint.
The
defendant had already retained
a lawyer. Another lawyer
standing in for him asked why
no voluntary surrender had
been provided for, if a
proffer session was
upcoming.
The
prosecutor informed Chief
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn
there was no proffer on the
table. He relented from
requesting home incarceration
to home detention, but
insisted that a GSP monitor be
installed before the defendant
was released on $500,000 bond,
of which $100,000 must be cash
within two weeks.
Also,
defendant is not to use
WeChat, nor contact Victim-1,
who has already paid her $1
million through mediation, the
prosecutor said. He added that
in the US she knows only her
ex-husband, which whom she
does not speak, and her
romantic partner.
She
spoke for herself, briefly,
that she was trying to visit
her ill father in China.
Judge
Netburn ordered her detained
until Monday when a GPS
monitor should be installed.
A US Marshal
handed her a note. Judge
Netburn announced that 25,000
protesters are headed to the
courthouse - more likely, ICE
in 26 Federal Plaza on "No
Kings" day - and to clear out
quickly. The case did not yet
have a docket number.
It is USA
v. Luo, 25-mj-1968 (Netburn)
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