by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 15 – Adama Sow and Abdulai Jalloh were arrested on November 15 and charged with trafficking in counterfeit goods.
They were presented in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrates Court and released on $1 million and $500,000 bond respectively. Inner City Press was there, the only media in the SDNY Mag Court.
Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger asked why the bond was so high and was told of multiple storage units full of counterfeit goods.
Ms. Sow declined to sign a financial affidavit; Federal Defenders represented her only for presentment. Reference was made to a passport from Guinea, which Sow visited for three weeks in the past year.
Mr. Jalloh was the last case of the day. A Fulani interpreter was brought in. The AUSA added that the goods in the related cases are worth $237 million. But there are not photographs in the two indictments.
It being 5:30 pm, Jalloh will have to return to SDNY on November 16 for installation of his GPS location monitoring bracelet.
The cases as US v. Sow, 23-cr-593 and US v. Jalloh, 23-cr-592 (Crotty / Lehrburger)
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