UN Briber Francis Lorenzo Gets SDNY Support from DR PR To Corrupt UN of Guterres

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon

UN GATE NOW SDNY, Oct 29 – How corrupt is the United Nations? Francis Lorenzo paid bribes to UN President of the General Assembly John Ashe, and took bribes and laundering them through Carlos Garcia - and now the current Dominican Republic Ambassador to the UN supports him in a letter to the court.

  From Lorenzo's sentencing submission: "Mr. Lorenzo was the Deputy Ambassador for the Dominican Republic to the United Nations. While this title is noble, it still does adequately reflect the service-centered life that Mr. Lorenzo has lived. In 2000, Mr. Lorenzo established the United Nations Association in the Dominican Republic. The primary focus of the organization was to promote the value and principle of the United Nations and highlight the importance of education and technology as a tool for sustainable development. Beyond establishing the United Nations Association in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Lorenzo also served at various times as the organization’s president as well as its vice president. It is important to note that Mr. Lorenzo started this organization for no personal benefit to himself, but rather to serve the people of the Dominican Republic. After creating the United Nations Association in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Lorenzo spent much of his time empowering youth around the globe and raising awareness around issues pertaining to education, people with disability, the elderly, and health care—specifically, Mr. Lorenzo spent a considerable amount of time raising awareness and funds to combat the proliferation of HIV/AIDS. Most recently, Mr. Lorenzo has been working with several organizations in the area of health to bring awareness at the national and regional level about the importance of cancer prevention to save lives. Case 1:15-cr-00706-VSB Document 915 Filed 10/29/19 Page 8 of 41 9 For his good works, Mr. Lorenzo has been recognized at the international, national, regional, and state levels. Below please find a non-exhaustive list of awards received by Mr. Lorenzo: Honor Awarding Body Year International Achievement Award Morris County HispanicAmerican Chamber of Commerce 2016 Joint Legislative Resolution Commending Mr. Lorenzo on Receiving the International Achievement Award2 Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey 2016 Peace Through Education Award3 Montessori Model United Nations 2016 Award of Recognition4 National Council for the Dominican Communities Oversea CONDEX 2013 Humanitarian Award5 Covenant House California 2012 Certificate of Commendation6 Morris County Prosecutor’s Office 2010 Government Advocate of the Year Award Morris County HispanicAmerican Chamber of Commerce 2010 Joint Legislative Commendation7 Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey 2010 Certificate of Recognition8  Timothy Dougherty, Mayor of Morristown, New Jersey 2010 Citation Commending Mr. Lorenzo on Receiving the Government Advocate of the Year9 Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen, United States House Representative 2010 Senate Commendation10 Anthony R. Bucco, New Jersey Senator 2009."

   This as on October 29, while Inner City Press which exposed this UN bribery and the following case by Patrick Ho of CEFC China Energy which tried to buy the oil company of Gulbenkian whose payments to Antonio Guterres were not disclosed by Guterrres remained banned, a former South South News-er stood at the UNSC stakeout, paid by the UN. We'll have more on all this.

Vivian Wang, the money woman for convicted UN briber Ng Lap Seng's South South News, was sentenced to time served on June 26 by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge George B. Daniels, who did not preside over the trial of Ng Lap Seng.

 On August 9, Ng Lap Seng's long shot appeal of his conviction was shot down by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. From the majority decision, this: "Insofar as the district court nevertheless charged an 'official act' quid pro quo for the § 666 crimes, that error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because the jury, having found Ng guilty under the higher McDonnell official act standard, would certainly have found him guilty under a proper instruction omitting that unnecessary standard." That was District Judge Broderick, whose low ceiling-ed courtroom Inner City Press now covers nearly daily, both because banned from the UN for uncovering its corruption and more and more interested in the workings of his Federal court.

 Now Francis Lorenzo, UN briber, has had his sentencing AGAIN pushed back. Here's from the August 30 letter to Judge Broderick: "Re: United States v. Francis Lorenzo, 15 Cr. 706 (VSB) Dear Judge Broderick: With consent of the defendant in the above-captioned matter, the Government respectfully writes to request that sentencing, presently scheduled for September 12, 2019, be adjourned to November 8, 2019, at 11:30 a.m., which the Government understands works for the Court. The adjournment will permit the parties additional time to prepare for sentencing. Respectfully submitted, GEOFFREY S. BERMAN United States Attorney By: s/ Daniel C. Richenthal Daniel C. Richenthal Janis M. Echenberg Douglas S. Zolkind Assistant United States Attorneys."

  And, to show how increasingly corrupt the UN is under Antonio Guterres, who is linked to CEFC China Energy and threw Inner City Press out of the UN for reporting on his links,
a denial of accreditation with no reasoning other than that accreditation had previously been revoked:

"From: malu
Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:23 PM
Subject: U.N. eAccreditation request for Matthew Lee Ref # M5413398 has been declined
To: Inner City Press:

Greetings Matthew Lee from Inner City Press,  Your media accreditation request, with reference no: M5413398, has been declined for the following reason: Media accreditation was withdrawn on 17 August 2018."

  This is Kafka-esque, and corrupt. We will have more, much more, on this.

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In Honduras Magdeleno Is Killed on Video After His Drug Ledgers Here Used In SDNY UN Silent

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon, Thread Video
Honduras - The Source - The Root - etc

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 26 – During the trial that convicted Tony Hernandez, the brother of Honduras' president Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH), on all four counts of guns and narcotics trafficking and false statements, the drug ledgers of one Nery Orlando López Sanabria a/k/a Magdaleno were used by the SDNY prosecutors.

  Here is an Inner City Press tweeted photo of notebook mentioning "JOH," in Spanish.

  Now a week after the verdict, Magdaleno has been murdered in a supposedly maximum security prison in Santa Barbara, Honduras.

  The video are very troubling [WARNING] including the guards letting the killers in, here.

Speculation is that he was killed so as to not produce further evidence against President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Protesters calling for his resignation after the verdict have been tear gassed.  So what will the Office of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman and the wider US Justice Department do? More on Patreon here.

  Inner City Press which covered the trial daily has asked the UN for the comment of SG Antonio Guterres who met with JOH in September 2019 and did not even mention corruption, much less drug trafficking.

 On October 26 after the murder and release of the video, Inner City Press went to (try to) pose the question to Guterres. The response? Video here. Three UN security vehicles, and even a publicly funded NYPD detective, "protecting" Guterres who already wastes untold public funds on security. Disgusting. A protest has been called for, and is needed - @InnerCityPress response here.  More on Patreon here.

  This is all the more the case given the spotting of "UN" vehicles carrying JOH's soldiers near Tegucigalpa here. Inner City Press has noted that the UN uses JOH's troops in Western Sahara.

Nor has Guterres and his spokesman Stephane Dujarric responded to request they belatedly release the report produce the report of the panel Guterres sent to Honduras to in essence back up JOH: Marcie Mersky, Ana Catalina Soberanis, Mirna Cuenta and Javier Cabreja about which Inner City Press asked at the 8 Feb 2018 noon briefing before it was roughed up and banned from the UN, 480 days now. We'll have more on this.

Inner City Press on October 18 asked the defendant's lawyer Omar Malone about this client's post arrest statement, the admitted murders by the cooperating witnesses, and upcoming sentencing submission. Video and answers here.

 The trial began with a bang on October 2 with the charge that already life imprisoned El Chapo Guzman gave the defendant $1 million for this brother, the president. On October 7, cooperating witness and former mayor Alexander Ardon described the meeting, with both El Chapo Guzman and Tony Hernandez present and the cash in plastic bags, see thread and see below.

The trial was before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge P. Kevin Castel and Inner City Press was live tweeting it. See also Patreon here on the fast mention and shut-down of Nikki Haley's name.

    On Sunday October 13 Assistant US Attorney Emil Bove informed Judge Castel that a deal on evidence was reached with Tony Hernandez' lawyers, to modify and presumably expand how much of the defendant's post arrest statement will be seen by the jury; DEA Agent Gonzalez who conducted the interview with not be subject to more cross examination. See Patreon, here.

 Here was the letter: "The Government writes to inform the Court that the parties have reached agreement regarding Government Exhibits 403 and 403-T, which contain excerpts of the defendant’s postarrest statement. (See Tr. 754). Although the Government believes that the defendant waived any argument under the Rule of Completeness by failing to timely object (see id. at 745-47), the Government has agreed in response to defense requests to modify certain segments of the recording (GX 403) and the corresponding transcript (GX 403-T). The Government will publish the modified segments to the jury on Tuesday, October 15. The parties are also in agreement that there will be no further cross-examination of Special Agent Gonzalez.  Respectfully submitted,  GEOFFREY S. BERMAN  United States Attorney By Emil J. Bove III."

 And here the post arrest statement as so far put in to the jury, as uploaded to YouTube by Inner City Press, here. The case is US v. Diaz Morales, 15-cr-00379 (Castel).

In Honduras Jail Magdeleno Is Murdered After His Drug Ledgers Used In SDNY Trial of JOH Brother Tony

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon, Thread Video
Honduras - The Source - The Root - etc

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 26 – During the trial that convicted Tony Hernandez, the brother of Honduras' president Juan Orlando Hernandez, on all four counts of guns and narcotics trafficking and false statements, the drug ledgers of one Nery Orlando López Sanabria a/k/a Magdaleno were used by the SDNY prosecutors.

  Now a week after the verdict, Magdaleno has been murdered in a supposedly maximum security prison in Santa Barbara, Honduras. Speculation is that he was killed so as to not produce further evidence against President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Protesters calling for his resignation after the verdict have been tear gassed.  So what will the Office of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman and the wider US Justice Department do?

  Inner City Press which covered the trial daily has asked the UN for the comment of SG Antonio Guterres who met with JOH in September 2019 and did not even mention corruption, much less drug trafficking. Nor has Guterres and his spokesman Stephane Dujarric responded to request they belatedly release the report produce the report of the panel Guterres sent to Honduras to in essence back up JOH: Marcie Mersky, Ana Catalina Soberanis, Mirna Cuenta and Javier Cabreja about which Inner City Press asked at the 8 Feb 2018 noon briefing before it was roughed up and banned from the UN, 480 days now. We'll have more on this.

Inner City Press on October 18 asked the defendant's lawyer Omar Malone about this client's post arrest statement, the admitted murders by the cooperating witnesses, and upcoming sentencing submission. Video and answers here.

 The trial began with a bang on October 2 with the charge that already life imprisoned El Chapo Guzman gave the defendant $1 million for this brother, the president. On October 7, cooperating witness and former mayor Alexander Ardon described the meeting, with both El Chapo Guzman and Tony Hernandez present and the cash in plastic bags, see thread and see below.

The trial was before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge P. Kevin Castel and Inner City Press was live tweeting it. See also Patreon here on the fast mention and shut-down of Nikki Haley's name.

    On Sunday October 13 Assistant US Attorney Emil Bove informed Judge Castel that a deal on evidence was reached with Tony Hernandez' lawyers, to modify and presumably expand how much of the defendant's post arrest statement will be seen by the jury; DEA Agent Gonzalez who conducted the interview with not be subject to more cross examination. See Patreon, here.

 Here was the letter: "The Government writes to inform the Court that the parties have reached agreement regarding Government Exhibits 403 and 403-T, which contain excerpts of the defendant’s postarrest statement. (See Tr. 754). Although the Government believes that the defendant waived any argument under the Rule of Completeness by failing to timely object (see id. at 745-47), the Government has agreed in response to defense requests to modify certain segments of the recording (GX 403) and the corresponding transcript (GX 403-T). The Government will publish the modified segments to the jury on Tuesday, October 15. The parties are also in agreement that there will be no further cross-examination of Special Agent Gonzalez.  Respectfully submitted,  GEOFFREY S. BERMAN  United States Attorney By Emil J. Bove III."

 And here the post arrest statement as so far put in to the jury, as uploaded to YouTube by Inner City Press, here. The case is US v. Diaz Morales, 15-cr-00379 (Castel).

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Exclusive: UN Linked Fraudster Saint Clair of World Sports Alliance Detained In SDNY But SG Guterres Still Free

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
Honduras - The Source - The Root - etc

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 23 – Asa Saint Clair was questioned for wire fraud by the US authorities at 845 United Nations Plaza last month, for his involvement in a dubious cyber-currency called Igobit, issued through a UN-linked "inter-governmental organization" called the World Sports Alliance.

    Inner City Press, before being banned from the UN by Secretary General amid its questions about his corruption and links to UN briber CEFC China Energy, reported on the World Sports Alliance, including here and here and here, on Burundi.

    On October 23 Inner City Press now covering the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York was the only media in the SDNY Magistrates Court when Asa Saint Clair was brought into the court in shackles. He was arrested in California trying to get on a plane to Madagascar by way of Paris. More on Patreon here.

   Now, despite telling the government he was making $50,000 a month, he was given a publicly funded Federal Defender lawyer, who argued he should be immediately released.

     He still may be. Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman rejected the AUSA's request to limit his use of electronic devices, and like the US Attorney's Office made no connection to the UN itself.

    There is a pattern here: in the Ng Lap Seng case, so recently in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, he went to jail but those he bribed in the UN remain free and in action. The same is true for Patrick Ho of CEFC China Energy, up to the level of Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

   Even in terms of fraudulent coins, Inner City Press has exposed and asked the UN in writing about the use of Guterres' image to sell coins by former UN ambassador of El Salvador Carlos Garcia.  He was shown in the Ng Lap Seng case to be helping with money laundering by Francis Lorenzo, still someone not sentenced by SDNY and its AUSAs Richenthal and Zolkind.

Nor did they ask on UN official Meena Sur, whom Inner City Press publicly exposed as linked to now SDNY-investigatived WSA, here.

And Garcia continued his coin scam with Guterres' image, and now WSA's Saint Clair is about to be bailed - even as his case remains hours later sealed.

 Inner City Press, exclusively covering all this even amid attempt to limit its access and real time reporting, will continue on these cases. Watch this site.

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Rogue Regulator Otting Withholds Merger Notices Since August 17 So All Comment Periods Close

By Matthew R. Lee, Video, FOIA fee denial

SOUTH BRONX, SDNY, Oct 5 – With Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting moving to undermine the US Community Reinvestment Act, on August 21 he engaged in a cynical tour of Jamaica, Queens with Rep. Gregory Meeks while his OCC was also refusing to consider a CRA protest filed less than 30 days after People's Bank's application was filed and that, later, available. See below.

  Now on October 5, 2019, on Otting's OCC website the most recently Weekly Bulletin of pending mergers, each with a 30 day comment periods is dated August 17. That is to say, all of the merger of which Otting's OCC is providing public have comment period which are closed. Those with open comment periods are not disclosed. This is criminal.

  On September 3, Otting rang up another death knell to accountability and judicial review, getting the CSBS' lawsuit about his sure to be ghoulish fintech charter dismissed as not ripe. A D.C. federal judge has again shot down a lawsuit that seeks to block the federal government from granting specialized national bank charters to fintech firms, saying the Conference of State Bank Supervisors is still jumping the gun by suing over a charter that no one has even applied for.  In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich dismissed because the "claims remain unripe.” This is four months after U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York allowed the New York Department of Financial Services to proceed with its challenge to the fintech charter.  In her ruling on Tuesday, Judge Friedrich said she “respectfully” disagrees with Judge Marrero’s decision to the extent it conflicts with either of her dismissal decisions in the CSBS cases.  Inner City Press goes with the SDNY. In DC the OCC is represented in-house by Jonathan V. Gould, Bao Nguyen, Gregory F. Taylor, Hannah Hicks, Peter C. Koch, Ashley W. Walker, Gabriel A. Hindin and Michael K. Morelli -- some of these are involved in trying to exempt the OCC from FOIA by denying fee waivers, even for merger applications. Otting is destroying the OCC, and wants to destroy the CRA. 

  Mere hours after refusing to consider an actual CRA comment, Otting issued this: "Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting today participated in a tour of New York neighborhoods to see firsthand the success of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) activity and discuss how CRA regulations can promote more lending, investment, and services, where they are needed most.  'Here in New York, we saw great examples of community and bank partnerships to conduct CRA activity that helps meet important needs of underserved neighborhoods,' Comptroller Otting said following the tour. 'We also discussed challenges communities, advocates, and bankers face in lending, investing, and providing services that can be addressed in part by modernizing CRA regulations.'" This is fraud.

 In June 2019 Otting denied access to documents about whom he meets with which Inner City Press requested back in January 2019. This while he had made the OCC start rejecting timely CRA comments on mergers and on Fifth Third's lateral move to the less regulated OCC charter, asserting that he has unfettered discretion to consider such comments.

  Now it gets worse - Otting is citing a 30 day comment period as a basis to refuse to consider comments even when by his own OCC's letter it was timely, less than thirty said. Inner City Press / Fair Finance Watch was sent this by the OCC on August 21: "People’s United Bank, National Association, Bridgeport, Connecticut filed its Application with the CCC on July 18, 2019, and published its first public notice of the application on July 17, 2019. The 30-day public comment period ended on August 15, 2019. The 0CC made information concerning the application publicly available in the July 20, 2019 Weekly Bulletin and, on July 23, 2019, posted the public portion of the application to the OCC’s Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. Your comment was submitted on August l6, following the close of the comment period on August 1 As a result, the comment was not timely and the OCC will not consider this comment in its review of the pending application." Do the math. Then impeach Otting.

 On August 15-16, Inner City Press / Fair Finance Watch, less than 30 days after the application was filed, submitted this to the OCC including its Barry Wides in DC: "August 15-16, 2019    

 Office of the Comptroller of the Currency  Northeastern District Office  Deputy Comptroller, Kristin Kiefer  Acting Director for District Licensing, Marva V. Cummings  340 Madison Avenue, Fifth Floor  New York, NY 10173-0002  and Barry Wides, DC

   Re: Timely Initial Comment on Application of People's United Bank to acquire United Bank     Dear Deputy Comptroller Kiefer, Ms. Cummings, Mr. Wides and others in the OCC:     

This is a timely first comment opposing and requesting an extension of the OCC's public comment period on the Application by People's United Bank to acquire United Bank.       The OCC states that "when a public notice is published, the public has 30 days to submit a written comment to the OCC." See here.       This comment is timely. While the "public" notice in the Hartford Courant is behind paywall - we are noting that for the record, to be acted on by the OCC like its now routine late updating of its online Weekly Bulletins - dispositively, the OCC web site says "Filing Status:     Action Date Receipt 2019-07-18." July 18 plus 30 days is August 17. Even if one ignores the filing date for comment period start date, July 17, plus 30 days is August 16. This comment is timely.     

Add to the above, for the record, that the OCC under Comptroller Otting has reversed years of OCC precedent and refused FOIA fee waivers for copies of the application to comment on. This comment is timely,and the lawless policy reversal(s) must be reversed.       

People's United is getting worse and worse.          In the the New York City MSA in 2017, the most recent year for which HMDA data is publicly available - the comment period should be extended until the delayed 2018 data is available - People's United made 83 home purchase loans to whites, only seven to Latinos and only FOUR to African Americans. Its denial rate for African Americans was 2.81 times higher than for whites - worse than its peers, by far. This comment is timely, an evidentiary hearing is needed; on the current record the application should be denied.     For refinance loans in the New York City MSA in 2017, People's United made 85 loans to whites, only five to Latinos and only six to African Americans.  This is systematic redlining; this proposed acquisition could not legitimately be approved and People's United should be referred for prosecution for redlining by the Department of Justice and CFPB.     People's United record is hardly sufficient in the Hartford MSA where it now proposes to acquire United Bank. In 2017 in the Hartford MSA, People's United made 139 home purchase loans to whites and only 10 to African Americans and only five to Latinos. Its denial rate for African Americans was a whopping 4.71 times higher than for whites - worse than its peers, by far.    Again, this is systematic redlining; this proposed acquisition could not legitimately be approved and People's United should be referred for prosecution for redlining by the Department of Justice and CFPB.      

See also, for the record, "People’s United Bank is growing, but at the expense of branches and possibly jobs.  The Bridgeport-based subsidiary of People’s United Financial is looking to acquire the parent company to United Bank in Hartford for roughly $759 million by the end of the year, and executives have confirmed that the merger would result in cuts.  “There is a lot of overlap, and we’ve done quite a bit of homework and due diligence already, but we will finish that work with the United (Bank) team and we will make decisions about which will close,” People’s United CEO Jack Barnes said.          In this context, the comment period should be extended so that public evidentiary hearings can be held, and the application should be denied." Watch this site.

  Now in a promotional brochure about his attack on CRA, Otting has misstated what the CRA statute says, and significantly so. His brochure said that the law requires the regulators to "consider the CRA RATING in connection with certain licensing applications." Uploaded by Inner City Press on Scribd here.

  In fact, the process is that CRA issues are considered on merger and charter conversion and other applications, not just ratings. That is a safe harbor, something repeatedly considered, fought off and rejected. Now fraudulent comment generator Otting is simply changing the law. We'll have more on this. 

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In SDNY Ellison and Mack Case Here Is Mixed Verdict by Jury Not Guilty On Counts 3 and 4 and 7

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Audio ThreadThe Source - XXL - The Root - Vibe, etc

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 3 – In the case of US against Aljermiah Mack and Anthony Ellison, the jury on October 3 returned a mixed verdict. Along with guilty findings on racketeer, Count 1, and Counts 2, 5, 6 and 7, it issued "Not Guilty" rulings on Ellison Counts 3 and 4 and with regard to Nuke Mack and guns, Count 7. After more than an hour, got and published it:

Count 1 Racketeering - Guilty
Count 2 Kidnapping - GUILTY
Counts 3 & 4 Ellison gun - Not guilty
Count 5 (maiming) - Guilty
Count 6 narcotics - Guilty
Court 7 Mack firearm - Not Guilty

  What the verdict may mean for 6ix9ine's bid for both a 5K1 cooperator's letter and "time served" instead of the 47 year mandatory minimum he would otherwise face is not yet known.

On October 2 the jury while deliberating on a verdict asked for information including the testimony of Ellison's then girlfriend Ms. Ramirez and a laptop full of phone records. They will resume deliberating on Thursday October 3 but if they do not reach a verdict that day will return only on Monday. Meanwhile there were thirty in the courtroom and thirty in the hall.

Ellison's defense lawyer Deveraux Cannick told the jury to closely review #6ix9ine's testimony, says he was prepared for hours and hours by the government and still there are holes in his story.

 Cannick emphasizes that #6ix9ine said he only made one call, a Facetime to his daughter. Turns to Cruz claiming he's worthy of your belief. "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't buy it."  Cannick is saying sometimes the government should tear up the 5K1 letter, but doesn't. Here's Inner City Press on a cooperator who after the deal smuggled drugs into private prison and sold them. Judge Gardephe was outraged, gave 4 years

 Government objects to Cannick saying a Kristian Cruz call was in the last six weeks. Judge Engelmayer doesn't rule, tells jury that their recollection will control. Cannick going back and forth between references to #6ix9ine and Cruz

 Cannick: Cruz has no familiarity with Harv. He said, "Harv is not a thief" only in order to prime the pump and get Mel Murda to talk. But where did Mel Murda get his info from? Shotti. But #6ix9ine said "Shotti is a liar. Shotti is a fraud."

Cannick asked why the government didn't take at face value their witness #6ix9ine's view that Shotti was a liar.   Says of course Mel Murda told Cruz whatever he wanted- he needed Cruz' drugs and money. More here.

For now, more on Patreon here.

SDNY Jury In Ellison and Mack Case Had Mixed Verdict Not Guilty On Counts 3 and 4 and 8

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Audio Thread

The Source - XXL - The Root - Vibe, etc

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 3 – In the case of US against Aljermiah Mack and Anthony Ellison, the jury on October 3 returned a mixed verdict. Along with guilty findings on racketeer, Count 1, and Counts 2, 5, 6 and 7, it issued "Not Guilty" rulings on Ellison on Counts 3 and 4 and with regard to Nuke Mack and guns, Count 8.

  What the mixed verdict may mean for 6ix9ine's bid for both a 5K1 cooperator's letter and "time served" instead of the 47 year mandatory minimum he would otherwise face is not yet known.

On October 2 the jury while deliberating on a verdict asked for information including the testimony of Ellison's then girlfriend Ms. Ramirez and a laptop full of phone records. They will resume deliberating on Thursday October 3 but if they do not reach a verdict that day will return only on Monday. Meanwhile there were thirty in the courtroom and thirty in the hall.

Ellison's defense lawyer Deveraux Cannick told the jury to closely review #6ix9ine's testimony, says he was prepared for hours and hours by the government and still there are holes in his story.

 Cannick emphasizes that #6ix9ine said he only made one call, a Facetime to his daughter. Turns to Cruz claiming he's worthy of your belief. "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't buy it."  Cannick is saying sometimes the government should tear up the 5K1 letter, but doesn't. Here's Inner City Press on a cooperator who after the deal smuggled drugs into private prison and sold them. Judge Gardephe was outraged, gave 4 years

 Government objects to Cannick saying a Kristian Cruz call was in the last six weeks. Judge Engelmayer doesn't rule, tells jury that their recollection will control. Cannick going back and forth between references to #6ix9ine and Cruz

 Cannick: Cruz has no familiarity with Harv. He said, "Harv is not a thief" only in order to prime the pump and get Mel Murda to talk. But where did Mel Murda get his info from? Shotti. But #6ix9ine said "Shotti is a liar. Shotti is a fraud."

Cannick asked why the government didn't take at face value their witness #6ix9ine's view that Shotti was a liar.   Says of course Mel Murda told Cruz whatever he wanted- he needed Cruz' drugs and money. More here.

For now, more on Patreon here.