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EDNY COURTHOUSE, August 11 –  Russian hacker Dmitry Ukrainskiy was to have been arraigned before U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes on August 10 at 9 am.

It was to be by Zoom from the Metropolitan Detention Center, also in Brooklyn. There was a public call-in line, which Inner City Press called into.  

But the arraignment did not take place. Despite the docket saying the arraignment was by Zoom, authorities had put Ukrainskiy on a bus from the MDC over to EDNY in Cadman Plaza. It was stuck in traffic, apparently -- the arraigned was canceled, and no new date announced.  

Inner City Press e-mailed EDNY U.S. Attorney Breon Peace's spokesman John Marzuli before 11 am, "This is a Press request for an on-the-record statement by EDNY why the scheduled arraignment this morning of  Dmitry Ukrainskiy did not occur (and a request to be informed when it is rescheduled, as with the Jordan/Washington, below).   [See,   ORDER as to Dmitry Ukrainskiy Arraignment on Indictment previously scheduled for 8/10/2022 at 09:00 AM via video before Magistrate Judge Reyes is adjourned due to the fact that the defendant was not present for the video hearing.]    Same request(s) on Jordan and Washington status conference that didn't happen today at 9 am.  Why is "Press Guidance" not placed on the EDNY website for all, given that it is a compilation of public information compiled with public funds?  Not having basic information that is given to other media inevitable impacts coverage.   Again, below unresponded to requests, including for reconsideration, reiterated." 

 Twenty four hours later, no answer at all, neither from Marzulli nor his associate Danielle Blustein Hass on either case, nor a new (China) one, here. Jordan and Washington are charged with murdering Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay; one imagines that Marzulli sent a heads-up to some but not all media which asked. Why isn't this publicly produced and paid for information made available?  

Ukrainskiy was extradited, after delay, from Thailand, like Viktor Bout before him. This is the second time his arraignment has been screwed up in EDNY.

Now, docketed on August 11, a third attempt is set: "SCHEDULING ORDER as to Dmitry Ukrainskiy Video Arraignment on Indictment rescheduled for 8/15/2022 at 09:00 AM before Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes, Jr."

We await answers, to all of the above.

Ongoing disclosure: 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 have requested reconsideration, still unacted on. We'll have more on this.

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