| OneCoin
Greenwood
Cited Mafia
Case to Keep
Letters
Sealed,
Approved now
US Wants $300M
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Patreon Podcast Filing
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 11 -- 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 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.
On September
11, the US Attorney's
Office - which
took no
position on
all of the
sentencing
letters being
sealed -
filed a
proposed forfeiture
order for $300
million. Filing on
Patreon here.
Watch
this site.
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this site.
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