| OneCoin
Greenwood
Cited Mafia
Case to Keep
Letters
Sealed,
Approved After
No DOJ
Position
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Patreon Podcast Filing
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 7 -- For money laundering
for scam crypto currency
OneCoin, lawyer Mark Scott was
convicted by a jury after
testimony by Konstantin
Ignatov and others but was
allowed to remain free on bail
pending sentencing.
On April 11,
2023, Judge Ramos heard
argument on, then denied,
Sebastian Greenwood's argument
that non-US losses should be
excluded from his sentencing.
Inner City Press was there and
exclusively live tweeted, here
(vlog here)
On May
10, 2023,
Greenwood's counsel
wrote
in, asking for
sentencing
after Labor
Day -
letter on
Patreon here.
On May
15, Greenwood got the
extension,
to September
12.
On
August 29,
Greenwood's
new lawyers
from Patterson
Belknap (and
two already on the case
counsel) filed
a 55-page
sentencing submission,
redacting
even the name
of a case they
cited and
withholding an
undisclosed number
of
exhibits. (They
left in Greenwood's
"MDC
Transcript," now on
Patreon here).
They
ask for
time served. They quote "Karl's
former driver in
Thailand" -
but redact
the quote, and
withhold the
entire
affidavit. This
is
unacceptable --
so Inner
City Press
filed to
unseal. Judge
Ramos
docketed it on
August 30, and
asked for response
by
September 6. That
afternoon, Greenwood's
counsel wrote
in but did no
provide a
single
unsealed
document.
Response here.
Inner
City Press
immediately
replied,
noting that
"[t]he
Response
provides not a
single
additional
document but
rather cites a
single (Mafia)
case from the
White Plains
courthouse.
Notably in
that case the
US Attorney's
Office
supported
sealing to
avoid "violent
retribution by
a criminal
organization"
which
"expressly
disavows
cooperation
with law
enforcement
and demands
violent
retaliation
against
informants."
US v. Pasqua,
16-cr-591
(NSR)
Dkt 41
at 13,
3.
It is not
clear which
analogy
Greenwood's
counsel seeks
to make: that
OneCoin and
his co-founder
are linked
with organized
crime, or that
victims of
OneCoin's
fraud should
not know who
is supporting
a time served
sentence for
Greenwood. The
latter should
be rejected,
and Greenwood
has not
assisted the
prosecution or
victims.
So the analogy
and ostensible
precedent
should be
rejected, and
the
submissions
unsealed."
Reply here.
After that,
the US
Attorney's
Office filed a
letter that it
"takes no
position" on
the sealing -
and, apparently, on
the analogy of
OneCoin
victims to the
Mob. And on
September 7,
the sealing of
all of
Greenwood's
letters of
support was
approved.
Watch this
site.
Watch
this site.
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