| Indicted
UAE Plant Barrack
Trial Has Expert
on Yemen and US
Visas to Princes
and Iran for UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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EDNY Courthouse,
Sept 22 – Thomas Barrack and
Matthew Grimes, indicted for
illegal lobbying for the
United Arab Emirates, were
arraigned on July 26, 2021
before U.S. District Court for
the Eastern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Sanket
Bulsara. Inner City Press live
tweeted it here
(and podcast here)
On September 21,
2022, Day 1 of the trial,
Inner City Press went to EDNY
in Brooklyn. After
descriptions of Barrack's
meetings with UAE handlers, in
Morocco, Corsica and
elsewhere, counsel for Matthew
Grimes said his client was
just an assistant, getting
coffee and smoothies for his
boss and taking photos of
meeting. Sure, he vacations
with Al Malik Alshahhi. But he
was serving Colony Capital,
his lawyer said.
Next up, as first
witness, was an expert in
Middle East affairs. A map was
proffered as an exhibit, but
it couldn't be seen in the
overflow courtroom. And Inner
City Press couldn't yet live
tweet from there. Sept 21
Cadman Plaza vlog, here.
On September 22
the expert Chris Davidson was
cross examined, about UAE
foreign policy on Libya (pro
Haftar), Yemen (bombing) and
Egypt (overthrow Morsi). The
defense tried to trip him up
on the "ADQ," which he heard
as "EDQ."
Then the US State
Department's Matthew McGuire,
about visas given to the UAE
officials, and how even Iran
gets visas to come to the UN.
At the end Judge
Cogan told the jury, during the
break, not to use Twitter or "My
Space, do we still have it?" And
still no action by EDNY D.E. on
getting similar access as
others. Sept 22 Cadman Plaza
vlog here.
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