Friday, June 19, 2026

Felon Pleads Guilty to Keeping Watch at 100 Centre Street Screening as VOSR in SDNY



Felon Pleads Guilty to Keeping Watch at 100 Centre Street Screening as VOSR in SDNY

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 12 – A man sentenced in 2021 to 66 months in prison in a drug case was back on June 12, 2026 on a violatios of supervised release.

US District Court for the Southern District of New York Senior Judge Jed S. Rakoff presided. Inner City Press covered it. 

  The defendant amiably described going through security at 100 Centre Street on the way to a state court proceeding when he found a watch - not his - in the plastic box. His lawyer added that the box had not passed through the "rubber boundary."

  Judge Rakoff asked if this met the NYS definition of intent. The AUSA said yes, the the plea was accepted. Rather than ten minutes for sentencing, it was set for the next week (Judge Rakoff noted he will be sitting by designation on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, June 17).

It emerged that defense counsel Kellman had played a role in drafting, for then NYS Speaker Stanley Fink, the bill to allow Federal judges to preside at marriages in New York State.

 The overall case is USA v. Cotto, et al., 1:18-cr-413 (Rakoff)

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Battle for Open Courts Extends to Maryland Criminal Case from Colorado Civil and Boston Suno AI

SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 12 –  Far too much is sealed in the Federal court system. And the courts do not always make it easy for the press and public to challenge the sealing and redactions. 

   Inner City Press which covers the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York most closely frequently gets documents unsealed in SDNY, from Sam Bankman-Fried's suretors through Michael Avenatti's financial affidavit seeking free counsel to multiple filings in the antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.  

 But in the case of OneCoin crypto fraudster Sebastian Greenwood, Inner City Press had to fight all the way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which in Lee v. Greenwood invalidated that defendant's sealing of all of his sentencing letters.  

    Now in 2026 Inner City Press has taken its unsealing project nationwide. It has an unsealing scheduled in the District of Colorado on June 24; its challenge to AI music platform Suno's sealing of what it trains on was docketed and is pending in the District of Massachusetts.

   On June 12, Inner City Press challenged the attempted total sealing of sentencing letters in USA v. Rappaport in the District of Maryland. Judge Matthew J. Maddox to his credit correctly docketed Inner City Press' challenge, here. What next? Watch this site.

Footnote on FOIA:  In USA v. Greenwood, the Department of Justice took no position on Greenwood's sealing. Now DOJ is trying to withhold all of its Live Nation documents under the Freedom of Information Act, giving rise to my FOIA complaint in SDNY, Lee v. DOJ Antitrust Division. I have also recently sued the Federal Reserve Board under FOIA for withholding all of its questions to high cost lender Enova, which is trying to enter banking by buying Grasshopper Bank.  

Court unsealing is the flip side of FOIA. It is less predictable, and a requester has fewer rights - but it is faster. The two work well together, as will be seen in the Live Nation DOJ Tunney Act process.

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Inner City Press Moves to Unseal Sentencing Letters of Baltimore Real Estate Fraud Attorney Rappaport in MDD

FEDERAL COURT / BALTIMORE, June 12 — Jacob Rappaport, 41, a Towson attorney and former partner at Levin Gann PA, pleaded guilty in federal court on April 22, 2026 to a felony conspiracy charge after federal prosecutors accused him of fraudulently inflating prices in real estate deals to secure more favorable loan terms. A sentencing hearing before United States District Judge Matthew J. Maddox is scheduled for June 23 at 10 a.m. in Baltimore.   

  Rappaport's defense attorney moved to file the sentencing letters entirely under seal, citing medical information, information about minor children, financial information, and sensitive personal information . The motion does not explain why targeted redaction of specific details would be insufficient, as required by Fourth Circuit precedent and the District of Maryland's own Local Rule 105.11.

Inner City Press filed an application with Judge Maddox opposing the wholesale sealing. On June 12, 2026, Judge Maddox docketed the application — formally placing ICP's press access request into the public record of the case. Sentencing is eleven days away. Inner City Press's application cites Lee v. Greenwood, 145 F.4th 248 (2d Cir. 2025), in which the Second Circuit recognized ICP's First Amendment right to be heard on sealing motions and confirmed the right of access to court documents in criminal proceedings. 

The public interest here is specific and concrete. Rappaport is an attorney — an officer of the court — who used his position, his trust account, and his professional relationships to help a client deceive banks about the true price of Baltimore real estate transactions. The Baltimore housing market, already stressed by vacancy and disinvestment - Fair Finance Watch has analyzed disparities in Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data there and elsewhere - was part of the landscape for this scheme.

   What arguments Rappaport's defense makes for leniency — what medical circumstances, what family circumstances, what character letters from the legal community — are matters the public has a right to know, particularly given that a fellow attorney found a replacement lawyer willing to participate in the scheme when the first refused.

Lee v. Greenwood was a Second Circuit case about a trial in New York. That decision is being carried now into the Fourth Circuit. Watch this site.

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As UN Debates Where to Store Archives of Genocides It Has Assisted USUN Mike Waltz Delays FOIA on Rooftop Party Waste

UN GATE, June 12 – Never again? How hollow is the UN Security Council's hand-wringing over genocide, from a body complicit in both Rwanda in 1994 and Srebrenica in 1995, and failing on Ukraine and Gaza?

On June 12 the UNSC met to debate the future of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals — the body that was supposed to close the books on the worst atrocities in Europe and Africa since World War II.  While the UN casts itself as trying to do the right thing, it was complicit in the genocide in Rwanda - not only did the UNSC vote to remove troops and thereby allow it, a remaining UNDP staffer used his white UN four-by-four at part of the genocide.

The UN's failure in Srebrenica is better known - but the UN has cited immunity for both, as for bringing cholera to Haiti.  

On June 12, Rwanda's Justice Minister Emmanuel Ugirashebuja flew in to argue that the archives of the Rwanda tribunal should stay where they are "most historically meaningful." That is what the UN has become under Antonio Guterres: a museum.

Will the Next SG - the current candidates have refused to answer the Press' questionnaire on these topics - close the doors for good, or move it out of New York? A presenter noted, accurately, that the atrocities "resulted from organized plans by senior leaders who abused their authority" and that "hate speech and propaganda laid the foundation." True.

Also true: the UN's own response — paralysis, euphemism, institutional cowardice — laid another kind of foundation. The IRMCT's mandate was extended again. Competing calls for "closure" versus "continued support to national authorities" filled the chamber. What was not debated: why the Council's permanent members, who have veto power and knew what was happening in real time in both Rwanda and Bosnia, have never been held to any standard of accountability for their own role in those failures.   And now, Ukraine and Gaza; Iran.

US Ambassador Mike Waltz, who has done nothing the UN's censorship and ban of Press, has been out of town, skydiving in France, lavishing praise on the UAE as "Little Sparta" without mentions its role supporting Sudanese militia. Mike Waltz paid to print up MUNGA - Make the UN Great Again - again? - caps, presumably with US taxpayer money, as he is presumably paying the UN to use its roof on July 4 for a party. Inner City Press' FOIA request to the State Department is being delayed. 

The UN is dying; Friday tellingly the debate was about where to store the archives.   

Inner City Press, still banned from being able to cover the UNSC from the press stakeout as it did, live tweeting as it now live tweets the courts, is ramping up its coverage of these UN events, good and mostly bad and ugly, as the race or fix for Next SG starts up. Watch this site

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For Next UNSG Guyana Launches Rodrigues Birkett Who Banned Press Now Qs Sent as US Mike Waltz Dodges on Bachelet

SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 13 –  How irrelevant has the UN become under Antonio Guterres and Missions like this month's President of the UN Security Council, Colombia? A year ago in June 2025 Guyana's Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was UNSC President - and banned the Press, never answering even its written questions. Today June 13, even as junketing UN PGA Annalena Baerbock has not seen fit to put Rodrigues-Birkett's candidacy on the PGA website, Inner City Press has sent the Guyana Mission a detailed questionnaire on UN issues for their candidate to fill out.

  Another question: how does the US' shifting relationship with Caracas impact its view of Guyana? While waiting for answers, from the archives:

During a more than two hour UN Security Council meeting presided over by Guyana's Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on June 22, Guterres slumped in his chair, glared and sharpened his pencil. Free UN Coalition for Access (FUNCA) thread here.

  Guyana's month atop the UNSC was a complete failure: they left no mark, and did not answer a single one of the daily written Press questions. A fish rots from the head.

   See the book UN Betrayals, here).

   One of the few other pieces about the races quoted but sure did not criticize Waltz for similarly dodging: "Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was asked at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last week by Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska — one of the letter’s signatories — about Bachelet’s fitness for the job. Waltz responded that he wasn’t in a position to say whether the U.S. would support or oppose her" - so what IS Waltz' position? Front row at at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks' games, tickets which we learned during the Ticketmaster / Live Nation trial cost up to $20,000? Who is paying for his tickets, or "gifting" them?
 [The Knicks collapses on April 20, blowing a lead and losing to the Atlanta Hawks, tweet here]

  Inner City Press would asks USUN and public their response - except that US Mission does not answer request from US Press, like our February 2 UN reform-related message. We hope to have more on this.

  The same piece baldly states, "there was widespread agreement that Guterres performed best in what the U.N. calls the 'interactive dialogue' with General Assembly members." No, he bought it with secret promises to each of the P5 members - and with undisclosed Angolan oil (and it seems CEFC China Energy) money - there's a book on this: United Nations Betrayals: From Election Stolen by Guterres to Bribes and Banning of the Press, here

    UNGA votes have no effect, and there are been much larger margins. And SG Antonio Guterres continues to be allowed to ban the Press that reports on UN waste and corruption. So where is the reform? Even from USUN "reform" man Jeff Bartos, nothing. We hope to have more on this, too.

 This is the culmination of a decade of UN decay under Guterres.The contrast was on display at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington April 14-15. Inner City Press was accredited to the IMF meetings, and in person asked the IMF's Tobias Adrian about Anthropic's Mythos. The next day, after UNCTAD sent Inner City Press an update that it was not allowed to a lower profile "Borrowers' Platform" event with Antonio Guterres, Guterres rudely ignored the staff that pour him water, then pontificated about domination.  But what are Mike Waltz and the others at USUN doing?  Waltz has been skydiving over France, and refusing expedited treatment to Inner City Press' Freedom of Information Act request about his payments to the UN to use its roof for a VIP party, and more, here.  Watch this site.

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Merger Application by Misnamed Bank of Hope Challenged by Fair Finance Watch Now Snail Mail Lies



Merger Application by Misnamed Bank of Hope Challenged by Fair Finance Watch Now Snail Mail Lies

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

FEDERAL COURT, June 12 – How automatic do banks now think merger approvals are? How automatic does the FDIC make them? There is a new test case, before the FDIC, to which Fair Finance Watch has filed:

a timely first comment opposing and requesting an extension of the FDIC's public comment period on the Application by Bank of Hope to acquire SMBC Manubank.

Bank of Hope, it now emerges, did a purported reply . But they did not email it to Fair Finance Watch. They put it in snail mail, two full days after it was dated. They bemoan HMDA data - and it is signed not by a CRA officer or CEO, but by "Chief Risk Officer" Thomas P. Stenger. They view CRA as a risk. As well they should, given their approach.

The application was on the FDIC's website where a public comment period running through March 27 . These comment, and supplements to come, were timely.   

    Fair Finance Watch, which commented to the FDIC that its proposal to eliminate public notice of branch applications violates the CRA, noting the FDIC's rationale that it receives few public comments, hereby timely informs the FDIC that it is troubled by Bank of Hope's lending record and is requesting public hearings and denial of this application. 

  In 2024 Bank of Hope in New York made 12 mortgage loans to whites - but NONE to African Americans. Meanwhile it mad 315 loans to Asians.  

  Nationwide in 2024 Bank of Hope made 33 mortgage loans to whites, none to African Americans, and 533 loans to Asians. 

   More than half of Bank of Hope's loans to Asians nationwide were in New York, versus one third of its loans to whites - and nowhere did it lend to African Americans. Can this comply with CRA and the fair lending laws?


  As it turns out, the FDIC cannot even comply with FOIA. As Fair Finance Watch filed its challenge, Inner City Press submitted a FOIA request to the FDIC seeking the full application and related communications.

  
The FDIC's response was telling: rather than produce a single document, it sent an interim letter claiming the request for the application itself was "premature" and deflecting to its San Francisco Regional Office, while demanding more specificity on the communications request or it would close the file entirely. The FDIC's "premature" dodge is legally dubious. The agency's own regulation, 12 C.F.R. § 303.8(a), concerns records available after "final disposition" of an application — but this application is still pending. More fundamentally, FOIA provides an independent statutory right of access that no internal agency regulation can eliminate.

The FDIC used to allow simple requests for public portions of application by clicking a button on its website. They eliminated that, and now this. It is a race to the bottom. Inner City Press has responded to the FDIC - watch this site.


 FFW notes again in the FDIC's  RIN 3064-AG10: "the FDIC has received a limited number of public comments in response to subpart C applications.... Therefore, the FDIC is proposing to eliminate the public notice and related public comment period from subpart C and to make conforming changes to subpart A of 12 CFR part 303 of the FDIC Rules."  

 See, e.g., Sept 10, 2025: https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/the-fdic-is-undercutting-a-key-element-of-the-cra  

 The Community Reinvestment Act specifies that "the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agency shall (1) assess the institution's record of meeting the credit needs of its entire community, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with the safe and sound operation of such institution; and (2) take such record into account in its evaluation of an application for a deposit facility by such institution."     That is, the only enforcement mechanism of CRA is its consideration on applications for deposit facilities: branches, and proposed mergers like this one. 

   But now the FDIC has moved to eliminate public notice and public comment on banks' proposals to expand.  The above-quoted reasoning is that few comments are filed. So, that is now changing. And so is the FDIC - get worse, daily, on not only CRA but also FOIA.

As of June 13, Inner City Press still had not a single page from the FDIC.

There will be more coming.

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Column Bank NA Helps Fintechs like Mercury and Brez Evade the Community Reinvestment Act so FFW Writes to OCC

FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, June 12 –  The fintech Mercury has put up its signs on a flashy low-rise building on the corner of Delancey and Christie Street on NYC's Lower East Side. In small print it discloses that Mercury is not a bank, but uses Column Bank N.A.  

   So who does the Community Reinvestment Act compliance for this set-up?

   Inner City Press / Fair Finance Watch decided to look into it.    Column's website does not even mention the CRA, unlike nearly every bank. Its regulator the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has essentially stopped enforcing CRA for the past 18 months, intent on handing out new bank charter to crypto firms.

  Fair Finance Watch has commented to the OCC on those charters and the lack of CRA, and on the OCC's decision to eliminate its Weekly Bulletin providing public notice of applications, and many break-downs of its replacement. 

   Fifth Third, in the midst of closing the 76 branches Inner City Press made the Federal Reserve disclose under FOIA while the Fed was rubber stamping 5/3's Comerica acquisition, had a deal with Brex, which also uses Column Bank, N.A. (and artificial intelligence, without disclosure). 

So how to address this Colum Bank NA fintech CRA loophole? Fair Finance Watch has already written to the OCC, cc-ing the FDIC.

The beginning of action is information. So here are a few paragraphs, the beginning of a new project:

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Man from Ecuador From Who Entered US in 2013 Is Detained So Files Habeas Now WDPA Fight



Man from Ecuador From Who Entered US in 2013 Is Detained So Files Habeas Now WDPA Fight

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 12 –A man from Ecuador who entered the US in 2013 has been detained by ICE, now in the Western District of Pennsylvania.

His next friend filed a habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where Inner City Press found it. 


 The case was assigned to Judge Ronnie Abrams.

The US Attorney's Office on June 12 filed that "venue is improper in SDNY."

Later on June 12 Judge Abrams docketed that "in spite of Respondents' argument that this cast should be transferred to WDPA," the only proof of Moshannon is from 90 minutes after the petition was filed. She directed that by Monday June 15 proof should be filed of Petitioner's location at the time the Petition was filed.


The case is Robles v. Francis, et al., 1:26-cv-4985 (Abrams)

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27 Bronxites Indicted on Valentine Ave Death Penalty Mulled now Co-D 5 Years with RISE



27 Bronxites Indicted on Valentine Ave Death Penalty Mulled now Co-D 5 Years with RISE

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 12 – Angel Villafane, previously convicted of a felony, was arrested for having a gun in incidents starting at 97th Street and Second Avenue then 110th Street and the FDR (long barrel firearm)  

  On May 20, 2022 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York  Judge Victor Marrero held a conference. Inner City Press covered it, the only media there.

Jump cut to March 6, 2024 - now it was grown to a 16 defendant indictment: "As alleged, day in and day out, this crew distributed fentanyl, heroin, and crack along several blocks on Valentine Avenue."

Inner City Press went to arraignments including that of Christopher Meadows, who the prosecutor described as an enforcer for the lead named defendant (who was detained on consent).

  Based on medical conditions named in court but which Inner City Press will voluntarily not report, he was ordered bailed on $50,000 bond to his mother's residence in Soundview by Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo. On the day of appeal, the US agreed to release.

On March 20, co-defendant Damel Marcus asked for release on bail, in Magistrates Court. Inner City Press was there, thread

Late in the day came notice that the defense has appealed to Part I, for March 21. Inner City Press was there, thread

On October 4, a bail review and a full-case proceeding, thread

On March 20, counsel filed a critique of slow production of discovery, and of the scope of the alleged conspiracy, now back to 1993, "when many of the defendants either were not born, were in diapers or had never even been to The Bronx."

On March 21, Inner City Press went, from the thread:

Here in 15th floor hallway, at least 50 family members. Defendants were brought from MDC Brooklyn by bus, not van.

 All the family members who have come can't fit in courtroom 15B. Defendants will be split into two groups...

On April 2, referring back to the March 21 conference, Paramus-based retained counsel to co-defendant Calderone wrote in that she opposed Speedy Trial Act time exclusion on his behalf, not of another co-defendant she was also standing in for.

On April 23 co-defendant Banks was presented and detained on consent; the next conference is set for May 16.

On May 15 the US Attorney's Office wrote in that two trials should be set, March 2 and May 4, 2024, saying "should the Government be directed to seek the death penalty," motions would ensue. Directed from Main Justice?

Inner City Press went to the 15th floor courtroom on May 16. The courtroom was entirely full, with defendants in the jury box, CJA lawyers at the tables and in the front row. They spoke in term, some more recently in the case. Judge Marrero floated the idea of having another judge preside over one of two trials. The AUSA was feisty, saying one of the defense lawyers were verging on being "disruptive." She joked back, as to pushing back a trial date, "I wish I was that busy." Several defendants laughed.

On December 2, another guilty plea in the case: " Juan Calderon. Defendant detained. Sentencing set for 3/2/2026 at 10:00 AM before Judge Victor Marrero.

On January 7 after a long bail fight live tweeted by Inner City Press Johana Alcantara who the US says confessed to killing "Gino" with a hot shot in exchange for 20 bags of fentanyl worth $200 was ordered freed to drug treatment.

But on January 8 it was stayed: "ORDER as to Johana Alcantara. The Court schedules a bail modification appeal hearing in the above-captioned matter for January 16, 2026, at 12:00 PM. The Court additionally STAYS the Release Order entered on January 7, 2026, by the Honorable Ona T. Wang, United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York, pending the January 16 hearing (Signed by Judge Victor Marrero on 1/8/26)"

Jump cut to March 2 when co-defendant Calderon who pled guilty asked for an 84 month sentence.

On March 10, before a March 13 sentencing, the US Attorney's Office submitted a one paragraph sentencing letter asking for the same 84 months.

On March 12 co-defendant Hernandez pled guilty in SDNY Mag court, with only Inner City Press in the gallery, to a minimum of 15 years on Counts 5 and the lesser included offense in Court 14. His defense lawyer asked him questions, then when asked if he sought release pre-sentencing said, He'd like to go home, but...

On March 16, also in the Mag court, co-defendant Marcus pled guilty to Count 17 of the S9 Superseding Indictment, with a sentencing control date of June 15.

On March 17, another guilty plea, by Christian Serrano, with a half-dozen supporters in the Mag Court gallery. Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave noted this on the record, for the transcript.

On March 18, yet another guilty plea, by Johnnie Capeles, to Count 22 and a June 16 control date.

On March 19, yes another guilty by, by Jason Rivera, with a June 17 control date.

On March 27, Inner City Press went and covered the sentencing of the self-described first to plead guilty, who had family and supporters there and was sentenced to 84 months, or seven years. Then the remaining defendants had a conference, and set the next one for June 12 at 11 am.

On May 29 co-defendant Rivera was sentenced by Judge Marrero to sixty months consecutive to an 84 month sentence he is already serving. Sentencing was expedited in order to get him out of MDC Brooklyn to another prison.

On June 8 Judge Marrero declined to grant a modification of bail conditions for co-defendant Reynoso, finding "no material change sufficient to warrant the requested relief."

On June 9 counsel to co-defendant Marcus asked for the five year mandatory minimum on June 12.

On June 12 Marcus was sentenced to just that: 60 months, with Bronx RRC for the maximum term allowable and participation in the RISE Program - whose graduation earlier in the week Inner City Press attended and tweeted, here.

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The case is USA v. Villafane, et al., 1:21-cr-93 (Marrero)  

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