SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 30 – Unsealing
wrongful hidden court filings is a task Inner City Press
has undertaken first in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York, most recently in the Live
Nation trial,
and in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in the OneCoin
/ Sebastian Greenwood case.
Now, Inner City Press has sought
unsealing in the District for the District of Columbia and
the Northern District of Illinois, and is looking at the
District for the US Virgin Islands. These are
unique cases.
In DDC, Inner City Press noted 50 "sz"
(seizure) cases, and asked Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui
who had said he'd unseal one of his cases - it hasn't
happened yet - to do so. Judge Faruqui to his credit
referred Inner City Press to the Special Assistant to
Chief Judge James E. Boasberg, Lisa Klem, with whom it has
spoken by phone, first about the January 6 cases and now
about these "sz" cases.
Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh
has recently unsealed
three cases. But more than 70 remain, some of them sure to
relate to ships and other items already
seized.
In the Northern District of Illinois, Inner
City Press has come across entirely sealed dockets. This
week it wrote to NDIL Magistrate Judges Maria G.
Valdez and M. David Weisman about their cases, both
entitled US v. Suppressed:
"The pattern of filings is as follows: a
sealed motion and order were entered on May 6, 2024;
renewed on October 31, 2024; renewed again on May 1, 2025;
renewed again on October 28, 2025; and most recently
renewed on April 24 and 28, 2026. Publicly, every docket
entry is sealed." We await response, and
action.
In the District for the US Virgin
Islands, there is a line of cases that are neither -cr-
(criminal) nor -cv- (civil) but rather -po- with docket
numbers but no documents available. Following the Court's
instructions, Inner City Press has raised it to Glenda L.
Lake, Esq., Clerk of Court as Public Information
Officer.
Inner City Press will not rest. Watch
this site.
