By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 30 – Pedro Rivera was charged in a multi-defendant drug case and on February 16, 2023 came to plead guilty before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron. Inner City Press was there.
Judge Aaron asked about education - GED - and other matters. The plea agreement has a stipulated guideline range of 100 to 125 months.
Sentencing will be on September 12 at 2 pm, before the assigned District Judge Colleen McMahon.
Back on December 15, 2022, Judge McMahon held a so-call Curcio hearing on and with Rivera.
Judge McMahon asked him of based on a letter to her dated November 17, 2022, if he understood "that Mr. Telesforo Del Valle, your lawyer, is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation that's being conducted by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the same people who are prosecuting you?"
Rivera said "yes" and waived the conflict.
That case is US v. Rivera, 22-cr-82 (McMahon)
Now on March 30, Del Valle has been arrested: "unsealing of charges against DIONISIO FIGUEROA, a/k/a “Dionicio,” an employee of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (“the SDNY District Court”), and TELESFORO DEL VALLE, JR., a/k/a “Ted,” a criminal defense attorney practicing in the SDNY District Court and elsewhere, for their participation in a scheme in which FIGUEROA referred criminal defendants to DEL VALLE and encouraged those defendants to retain DEL VALLE as counsel in exchange for cash payments from DEL VALLE to FIGUEROA. FIGUEROA was arrested, and DEL VALLE surrendered earlier today, and both will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Andrew E. Krause in the SDNY District courthouse in White Plains, New York." We'll have more on this.
This case is 23-cr-____
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