by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
2CIR COURTHOUSE, March 17 – When OneCoin crypto fraud defendant Karl Sebastian Greenwood came up for sentencing, his lawyers put all 33 of his sentencing letters under seal. Inner City Press opposed, to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Edgardo Ramos and then to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
On March 17 Second Circuit Judge Alison J. Nathan asked why selective redactions, rather than wholesale sealing, wouldn't be appropriate.
Judge Barrington Parker told Greenwood's lawyer, You haven't convinced me, citing a Circuit decision in unsealing in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, which Inner City Press also covered (and which Judge Nathan oversaw, prior to moving up to the Second Circuit).
He noted the brevity of the District Court's order.
There were other problems with the processing of the case / appeal, but a ruling will be coming. And it is needed - court transparency is at stake, and is in play every day, here in SDNY and elsewhere. Watch this site.
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