Federal Case Dropped Against
Defendant For False Passport &
SNAP Applications in SDNY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Nov 21– A man knows as First
Name Unknown Last Name Unknown
appeared in court with two US
Marshals on March 23, 2023,
for his trial date to be
set.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New
York Chief Judge Laura
Taylor Swain held the
proceeding. Inner City Press
went and covered
it.
The case
was called: US Against Fuh-new
Luh-new. The complaint, filed
in late 2021, is that FNU LNU
stole another's identity to
take money from Medicare,
Medicaid and SNAP, and to
apply for a passport.
He also faces an
aggravated identity theft
charge, which would require a
two years consecutive
sentence.
He has
gotten Simpson Thatcher, and a
lawyer who until recently was
with the SDNY US Attorney's
Office.
They were offered
a May or June trial, but said
they'd like until November.
Another judge may or will be
assigned for trial, and
perhaps the pre-trial motions,
given the Chief Judge's duties
with regard to the Puerto Rico
restructuring.
On March 29, the
case / trial was reassigned to
Judge Sidney H. Stein.
Previously,
a November 13 trial date was
selected - between the AUSA's
September (Judge Berman) and
December (Judge Failla) trials
-- with motions due June 1 and
a conference, somewhere, set
for June 6.
On April 10,
Judge Stein held a conference
and moved the trial up to
October 16, leaving the June 1
motion deadline and June 6,
11:30 am conference - but
declining to exclude Speedy
Trial Act time to October,
only to June. He asked defense
counsel how much time they are
going to put into this case of
Mister La-new.
On August 7,
LNU's counsel at Simpson
Thacher docketed a letter that
they intend to introduce
expert evidence relating to a
mental disease, defect, or
mental condition of the
defendant bearing on the issue
of guilt."
On November 21,
the US Attorney's Office
submitted, and Judge Stein
signed, a "nollo prosequi" -
the case is dropped: "NOLLE
PROSEQUI ENTERED as to FNU LNU
a/k/a "Ricardo Hernandez,"
a/k/a "Herbeth Willfredo Giron
Diaz." FNU LNU (1) Count
1,2,3,4,5,6. SO ORDERED:
(Signed by Judge Sidney H.
Stein on 11/21/2023)."
The case was US
v. LNU, 22-cr-16 (Stein)
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