By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
SDNY / MDC, April 4 -- Saturday from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Larry Ray's lawyers were supposed to write in to the judge, and the docket, about whether Ray would testify. But nothing went in.
Kurt Wheelock checked: nothing. Nothing.
Monday Ray put on his defense, and it was short. A cell site expert at $400 an hour, paid for by the public; his My Cousin Vinny lawyer, Glenn Ripa. Then it was over and the closing argument began.
The Assistant US Attorney played videos of abuse, and described again and again Ray and Isabella Pollok torturing Claudia Drury overnight in the Gregory Hotel, and eating take-out hamburgers from a diner across the street as they did it. They also tortured her at the Times Hotel.
So who were these men - and at least two women - who exploited her? Next up in #JohnListGone was the celebrity dating coach, named on Patreon here.
[It, like a song about Lev Parnas was also covered, behind a paywall, by New York Magazine which had this to say about Inner City Press' covered in late 2021 of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, book here via one of the companies with an executive on the John list.]
When Inner City Press for investigative reporting was roughed up and thrown out onto First Avenue from covering the United Nations of/by UNSG Antonio Guterres, many did nothing. But as we've previously noted, the First Amendment stops at First Avenue. We'll have more on this, here and on other platforms.
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