| Tom Barrack on Deck As
Brady Cassis Ranges From
Disneyworld to DOJ, Grimes in
Cadman Plaza
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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Honduras
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Trial book - NY
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Literary EDNY,
Oct 21 – After weeks of
trial and a day off when two
jurors were sick, on October
21 Barrack was supposed to
take the stand. Kurt ran from
Borough Hall to EDNY, using
his temporary press pass to
take his laptop in.
Up in Judge
Cogan's eighth floor courtroom
the gallery was more full than
usual. Barrack's lawyer was
putting a Paul Hastings lawyer
named Brady Cassis on the
stand. And he started with a
joke.
He asked,
Have you ever been to
Disneyworld?
Cassis said he had.
And what
did you hear while you were
there? That I'd
been chosen as a finalist for
the game show Jeopardy, Cassis
said. The jurors laughed.
From that
the question led Cassis
through a stint as a "pintern"
at COJ's Criminal Division,
then Steptoe & Johnson and
Paul Hastings. He'd been
present for and taken notes at
Barrack's interview by the FBI
on June 20, 2019.
After a
fight at the sidebar about
whether the notes Cassis had
typed on his laptop could come
in - they did - he walked
through the notes.
The point
seemed to be that he hadn't
written down that the FBI
agent had asked about any
special app Barrack had used
with his UAE contacts. The
notes veered from Jared
Kushner through Bannon to the
Emirates' ruler MBZ. But by
day's end, still no
Barrack.
Kurt went out
onto Cadman Plaza with his
phone but not his larger
camera, left back in the SDNY
Press Room. With a handful of
other journalists, he waited
for Barrack. But first out the
door was Grimes. He jogged
after and asked, How do you
think it's going, Mr. Grimes?"
He called him
Mister, even though on Twitter
he called him Mister Smoothie,
the beverage preparation of
which his lawyer Abbe Lowell
said was his main job at
Colony Capital, disproved by
emails.
Grimes didn't answer, and Kurt
added some commentary or
invective.
Then, after
ten minutes or more, Barrack
came out. He was asked, Are
you going to testify? He said
grandly, "Have a good weekend,
guys." Kurt intended to.
***
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