By Matthew Russell Lee, Author Amazon Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 12 -- The storm or scam around the Ghislaine Maxwell trial was pulling in two directions. Juror 50's gushing to the media, only after his bosses at the Carlyle Group gave him the green light, raised the specter of a mistrial.
Meanwhile, Judge Nathan ruled that even the filings of Juror 50's lawyer, Todd Spodek who had written to say he was, in fact, the chosen lawyer, would be excluded from the case's docket. Why?
The argument was made that this was all organic, that Juror 50's Instagram account had been seen and so he'd been contacted and decided, with the Carlyle Group's blessing, to go public. But why then had the Instagram accounts, or at least screen shots of it, not been published?
Kurt stopped asking, and published, here and here. thisbeartravels, indeed. Hadn't Team Maxwell asked for all prospective jurors' names so they could check their social media before allowing them on Maxwell's jury? And here? Game on.
But a question he had, after Judge Nathan's order that Juror 50 didn't have standing to weigh in on whether there should even be a inquiry was, why hadn't Juror 50's retained counsel simply filed his motion into the docket?
He clearly had SDNY filing privileges on PACER - he had filed, just for example, his sentencing submissions on Danforth, then the errata thereto as they say. So why let his client's submissions be redacted, much less by Maxwell?
And why wasn't the challenge to Team Maxwell's and DOJ's redactions in the docket? #MaximumMaxwell
The larger question was how the "Scotty David" interviews came about. And now, The Carlyle Group. From #MaximumMaxwell to #MirroringMaxwell.
Inner City Press covered the trial, and all the comes before and after it; #CourtCaseCast and song I, Song 2, Song 3, fifth song, Nov 27 song and now, the Dec 29 verdict song here now Jan 8 Scotty David chatty juror song here
The underlying case is US v. Maxwell, 20-cr-330 (Nathan).
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