| Mayande
Gowan Arrested
at JFK Airport
on Tax Charge
Now Pleads
Guilty
Sentencing Nov
4
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 31 – Mayande Gowon was
arrested on Saturday night,
September 23, 2023 at JFK
airport on a 2022 federal
indictment that had been
sealed. In it he is accused of
failing to pay over and
account for payroll taxes
while president of TGC Global
in 2014 and 2015.
On September 25
he was brought before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang.
Inner City Press was
there.
The AUSA
was not asking for remand to
the MDC, but demanded home
detention.
The issue became
whether Pre-Trial Services
would have to inspect Gowon's
temporary New Rochelle housing
before he was released. The
answer, after a break, was No.
Gowon, who also goes by
Mayande Walker, while living
in Kazakhstan, has been
working for Telecommunications
Development Corporation in DC.
The Federal Defender said the
firm works for the US
Department of Homeland
Security.
The
AUSA said Gowon will probably
lose his job. The Federal
Defender reminded: Innocent
until proven guilty.
On
December 21 the US Attorney's
Office wrote in opposing any
loosening of conditions.
Beyond his month to month
lease and failure to contact
his eldest daughter, they
said, his passport has 200
stamps including from Saudi
Arabia and Russia.
Jump cut to May
7, 2024 when Gowon's Federal
Defender wrote in to adjourn a
May 9 conference for 30 days,
saying "the parties have made
progress toward a resolution
of this case but are still
finalized the terms of a
plea."
On July 31, Gowon
pled guilty: "Minute Entry for
proceedings held before Judge
J. Paul Oetken: Change of Plea
Hearing as to Mayande Gowon
held on 7/31/2024. Plea
entered by Mayande Gowon (1)
Guilty as to Count 1s,2s.
Defendant sworn and the Court
accepts the defendant's change
of plea to Guilty as to counts
1 and 2. The sentencing date
is set for November 4, 2024 at
3:00 pm."
The case is US v.
Gowon, 22-cr-361 (Oetken)
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