By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Jan 27 vlog
SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 20 - A man from Azerbaijan was arrested with an AK-47 style assault rifle surveilling the Brooklyn home of an Iranian journalist, Inner City Press exclusively reported learned on July 29, 2022,
In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York past 5 pm that day, a detention or release proceeding was held by Magistrate Judge Sarah Cave on defendant Khalid Mehdiyev. Inner City Press was the only media there.
On January 27, 2023, Mehdiyev's paymaster was presented, but not arraigned, again before Judge Cave. Vlog here
On February 1, both Amirov and Mehdiyev were on court before District Judge Colleen McMahon.
On March 10, jury selection went past 5 pm and still wasn't finished.
On March 11, opening statements, BOP witness and ... Mehdiyev, about the Russian mob, Guli vor, and Polad. The AUSA says he has two to five hours more - Judge McMahon said tighten it up. Thread here, more / extra on Substack here.
On March 13 Mehdiyev was crossed by Omarov's lawyer about, among many other things, making up the death of his mother and his visa fraud, thread
On March 14 Mehdiyev's mother testified then was cross examined. She denied wanting a green card, and that she told her son on a recorded call that they "had" to get to the US. More on X for Subscribers here and Substack here
On March 17 the trial continued including with the FBI's Iran squad chief testifying that Mehdiyev got paid, $30,000 in cash - thread
On March 18, Masih Alinejad herself testified (Inner City Press thread) - there was no cross examination, and after the charge conference, closing arguments approach...
On March 19, the closing arguments, with the defense targeting the credibility of Mehdiyev - and his mother, thread
On March 20, the same afternoon the jury got the case it found both men guilty on all charges, though Amirov for money laundering only on international promotion, not concealment...
Previously, more on X for Subscribers here and Substack here
The case is USA v. Medhiyev, et al., 1:22-cr-438 (McMahon)
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