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Agent Weronika Janczuk
Threatened Press Then
Released Now Unsealed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY Exclusive,
Feb 1 – Brooklyn based
literary agent Weronika
Janczuk was
arrested on January 11, 2022
for cyber-stalking.
On July 21 the US
Attorney's Office agreed to
defer prosecuting her.
In
September,
after the DPA,
Janczuk
emailed a
series of
threats to
Inner City
Press, as well
as demands for
censorship:
"Please pull
all content: here
Weronika
Janczuk The
content sent
herein is
legal in
nature and
intent, and is
protected from
publication by
e-channel'd
privacy &
security laws,
IP
protections,
and
positively-declared
NDA statutes."
On
October 22 and
then
December 22, 2023 a
series of one
month Orders
to Continue in
the Interest
of Justice.
On
January 5,
2024, Janczuk
appeared
without any
advance notice
in the SDNY
Magistrates
Court. Inner
City Press was
there. She
pled not
guilty to an
information,
after waiving
indictment.
The AUSA asked
for a control
date - then
change of plea
- on
January 29.
The
Government -
the US
Attorney's
Office - did
not file its
letter in the
docket, but
rather presented
it on January
29 to Judge
Schofield,
asking that it
be
sealed. Inner
City Press
has filed
an application
to unseal it.
Time served given
after quite an
allocuation. Thread:
Judge: I
sentence you
to time served
and 1 year of
supervised
release...
After
the
proceeding,
Inner City
Press emailed then
filed an
application to
unseal the
victim impact
letter, without name or
address. On January
31 Judge Schofield granted
the
application.
Now on
February 1,
the victim
inpact
statement has
been docketed. It cites
the failed
deferred prosecution
agreement,
followed by
more harassment. "We just
want to be
left alone from her
ravings and attacks." She's
out.
Watch this
site.
The
case is now US v.
Janczuk,
24-cr-10
(Schofield)
Watch
this site.
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