By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY MAG COURT, Feb 12 - In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on December 20, a detention or bond proceeding was held by Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein on a man charged with hacking into the taxi assignment system at JFK Airport.
Inner City Press was present.
The Assistant US Attorney told Judge Gorenstein his Office agreed to release on bond of $100,000, with computer monitoring software, while noting Leyman has an app on his phone to check his diabetes.
Lead- and co-defendant Daniel Abayev was also released on $100,000 bond.
Jump cut to January 23, 2024 when defendant Peter Lehman asked for no jail time but home confinement so that "the loans on his taxi, taxi medallion and delivery truck are not all foreclosed on."
On January 29, named defendant Daniel Abayev asked for 12 months of home confinement, arguing that "the hacker who hacked the Port Authority computer system did so simply by putting up an antennae outside JFK Airport and infiltrating the system by way of an unsecured email system."
On February 12, Judge Paul Crotty sentenced Lehman to 24 months, and Abayev to 48 months. Abayev's counsel asked that surrender be delayed to June 21 and it was, while his request to seal a document, no trace of which appears in the docket, was granted.
The case is US v. Abayev, et al., 22-cr-655 (Crotty)
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