| Charged With
Crypto Laundering Colombian Drug
Cash Max Cartier Files Motion to
Dismiss
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 30 – Charged with
laundering money for Colombian
drug cartel using the crypto
currency Tether, Maximilien De
Hoop Cartier was arrested in
Miami in February
2024.
On July 18,
Cartier was brought by
Marshals before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Mary Kay Vyskocil for a change
of attorney proceeding. Inner
City Press was there.
Cartier
sent two handwritten letters
to Judge Vyskocil, asking to
present his own bail package,
and for another CJA lawyer -
he names one - knowledgeable
about crypto. On November 18,
Judge Vyskocil set a hearing
for December 11.
On December 11
Inner City Press went to the
proceeding and live tweeted
it, here.
Bail was denied, on risk of
flight grounds. Trial is set
for June 9, 2025.
By TRULINCS email
dated January 22, 2025 De Hoop
Cartier wrote in seeking to
relieve his lawyer from the
case and get his money back.
The lawyer wrote
in with a copy of his fee
agreement for $300,000, with
$100,000 due immediately.
Judge Vyskocil
set a February 6 hearing at 2
pm.
On January 30 de
Hoop Cartier filed his own
motion to dismiss, contesting
among other things venue.
The
complaint said "Cartier is
purportedly a direct
descendant of Louis-Francois
Cartier, the master
jeweler...and purports to be a
philanthropist, entrepreneur,
art collector and
industrialist and investor in
beverages and 'fintech' as
well as a singer under the
name 'Max
Cartier.'"
Online it's said
"In 2007 he founded Patagonia,
which produces fine wine,
premium beer and also some of
the best water in the world."
And his music, or photos of
concerts, are on his
now-dormant Instagram.
The case is
US v. Cartier, 24-cr-133
(Vyskocil)
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