By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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EDNY COURTHOUSE, August 8 – What is it with musicians and the Eastern District of New York prosecutors, or at least their press office?
On August 8 that Office wanted coverage of their bid to remand Fetty Wap a/k/a Willie Junior Maxwell II - but only on their terms.
Before a presentment at the Central Islip courthouse, for which there was no press or public call-in line, the pump was primed. But if a media misunderstood the instructions, and dared report the actions of the prosecutors, henceforth it would be excluded from the Office (publicly-funded) information, and its questions not answered. So much for due process - by a prosecutor's office.
Instead, this: "The musician, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on Monday morning and indicted in federal court in the Eastern District of New York, according to John Marzulli, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney for Eastern New York." Indicted? That happened in the past. "U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke revoked Fetty Wap's bond on Monday afternoon, meaning he will remain in jail, Marzulli told [the] News." Speaking to some, not others.
Long after others got the apparently priceless detention memo, Inner City Press puzzled within it over this line / crime: "after John Doe called the defendant a rat, the defendant responded by saying, 'Your man is a rat.'" Detention memo on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here.
Questions about this and other EDNY prosecutions will not be answered by the Office's ex-journalist spokesman John Marzulli. We'll have more on this.
More from the selectively distributed, created with public funds detention memo: "According to John Doe, the Facetime call occurred on December 11, 2021, and in the call the defendant possessed a gun, threatened to kill him, and called an individual a 'rat,' despite the fact that this was a direct violation of both state law and the conditions of his release."
This was prepared without any assistance or answers from Eastern District of New York US Attorney's Office spokesman John Marzulli, ex-Daily News, who without hearing or appeal on August 8, 2022 decreed that said "his" / EDNY's publicly-funded information will henceforth go to some (including outside of New York) but not others, or other, like NYC-based Inner City Press. We'll have more on this.
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