Friday, October 31, 2025

De Niro Grandson Death Triggered Detention in SDNY & Sealed Filings Now 5 Coming In


by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY EXCLUSIVE, Oct 30 – Many people are killed by fentanyl these days.

On the morning of July 14, 2023 Inner City Press covered the sentencing to three years of a man for causing a deadly overdose of another, Peter Krasniqi. Only his family, and Inner City Press, were in the courtroom gallery. 

 Later on July 14, a 20-year old woman charged with causing the death of the grandson of actor Robert De Niro was held, with significantly more interest. As in the first case, Inner City Press was there, thread

Since then, with no docketing of this defendant Sophia Marks being released, there are 16 "Sealed Documents Placed in Vault."

On October 30, Inner City Press learned of five defendants under indictment 25-cr-496 - in which Leandro Anthony De Niro-Rodriguez is Victim-3, July 2, 2023.

The first case is US v. Marks, 23-mj-5518 (Wang)

The now related case case is USA v. Nichols, et al., 1:25-cr-496 (Ramos).

 More analysis on Substack here 

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