EASTERN
FRONT BY REMOTE, March 15 -- The
war on Ukraine was everywhere, at least
in the media, at least in NYC, Kurt's
world. The Russians were encircling Kyev;
they were firing rockets at buildings,
seemingly at random. Zelenskyy, now a
bigger figure in US politics than Joe
Manchin, would be addressing the US
Congress on Wednesday.
Amid
this Kurt returned to the SDNY and
there saw other refugees so to speak
from the 1 Malaysia Development
Berhad, who'd pulled back from the
Eastern District court, the Eastern
front so to speak. One told Kurt, no
one is interested in that case
anymore, it's all Ukraine Ukraine
Ukraine.
Billions
stolen and nobody cared anymore? The
UN keeping it and nobody had ever
really cared? Or taking it seriously?
Or thought there was any prospect of
the Malaysians getting it back?
Kurt
wondered what Michael Randall Long was
up to. He wanted to talk to Long about
maybe representing him in the Second
Circuit to oppose the appeal taken to
his win in unsealing the financial
information of the sex-abusing doctor
Ricardo Cruciani. But Long was out on
his own with his Malaysia client,
encircling the UN so to speak. Maybe
he was just in a coffee shop near
there.
In SDNY the news was this Larry
Ray, who'd squired Mikhail Gorbachev
around before turning seemingly normal
Sarah Lawrence College students into
prostitutes and slaves. The trial
started late and Kurt went up to the
24th floor to try to find out why. He
was told, uh, Ray is now on his way.
Had Ray tried to stay in his
cell, as had happened for one of the
last pre-trial conferences, when Ray
tried to fire the Federal Defenders?
It emerged that Ray had had a
seizure, or at least the Federal
Defenders said so. Was it uncharitable
to doubt it? Ray was a master of
manipulation if nothing else. The
prosecutors showed the jury a video of
Claudia Drury in a sweatshirt crying
and looking into Larry's cell phone
camera, repeating, I don't want to
keep damaging your things.
Ray demanded, But what are your
going to do about it? Prostitution, it
seemed, would be the answer. Drury had
supposed to take the witness stand
today.
But at the lunch break an
ambulance was called for Ray --
"Twenty Four Bravo!" Kurt heard -- and
the afternoon session was canceled, to
be made up in some other way, the
judge said. Kurt would be stuck on the
Southern front for a while, following
the Eastern or the Donbas by remote.
#TheWeaselsOfWallStreet.
Kurt had first heard
of Jho Low while still in
the UN, before he was thrown
out. Jho Low appeared at a
UN press conference in front
of the ubiquitous and now
defiled logo.
#TheWeaselOfWallStreet, 1st
in a new series
Inner City Press is also covering
US v. Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the
self-rapped Crocodile of Wall Street, a
story here,
song here
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