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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 11 – Victor Mones Coro is charged with brokering private passenger air travel for Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah - and was given his discovery late by the US, mixed with other DHS info, see report on November 11 filing, below.
On November 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Magistrates Court Alejandro Marin, described as having access to Venezuelan private planes, El Aissami and Venezuela's minister of crypto-currency, was ordered detained. It was not announced, but Inner City Press found it, and tweeted: with no announcement in advance, there is a defendant in SDNY Magistrates Court that DOJ is seeking to detain as a flight risk, he flies private plane and, AUSA says, knows Venezuela's minister of crypto-currency.
They keep calling him Marin - seems it is Alejandro Marin, witness against Venezuelans Vice President El Aissami and his alleged frontman, businessman Samark Lopez - now accused of lying. Inner City Press can report: he is being ordered detained .
We'll have more on this. In October, Alvin K. Hellerstein held a publicly-noticed proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.
It emerged that AUSA Amanda Houle has made ex parte sealed filings with Judge Hellerstein, with not a wisp of them in the docket.
There was a discussion of showing some but not all of the information to Orsini's lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, on an "attorney's eyes only" basis. Shroff, to her credit, pushed back.
On October 28, Judge Hellerstein held another proceeding after the US Attorney's Office late-produced some eight terabytes of information, more than double the volume it produced before one of the co-defendant pleaded guilty. This is post the US v. Nejad case Inner City Press has reported on and in which it anticipates making a filing - watch this site.
While Shroff is still digging through the terabytes, attorney Christine Chung was mulling withdrawing Victor Mones Coro's plea.
Mones moved to withdraw the plea; the Court accepted the withdrawal of plea.
Now on November 11, Mones has requested sanctions, stating that on October 25 the US Attorney's Office turned over a hard drive containing, erroneously, "confidential material regarding another investigation that DHS had mistakenly copied onto the drive." We'll have more on this.
In the interest of increased transparency, here is the October 28 transcript, on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud, here.
And Inner City Press' filing to further unseal in Nejad has been docketed.
This case is US v. Orsini Quintero, 19-cr-144 (Hellerstein)
