Woman
Detained For Catfishing Unnamed CEO Had
Mount Sinai Doctor ID, Now New Lawyer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
September 16 – With the name
of the targeted CEO not
public, on September 1 the
U.S. Attorney for the Southern
District of New York announced
"the unsealing of
a three-count Indictment
charging defendant SAKOYA
BLACKWOOD with interstate
communications with the intent
to extort, cyberstalking, and
extortion. The case has
been assigned to U.S. District
Judge Jesse M. Furman."
On September 1
Judge Furman held an
arraignment and bail
proceeding. With exhibits
still withheld in full, a
detention letter was filed, on
Patreon here.
Inner City Press went and live
tweeted it here
and below.
After the
proceeding, the prosecutors
filed a redacted copy of the
defendant's various IDs,
including licenses from NYS,
Arizona and California (and an
NYC ID with address in
Brooklyn - a mail drop -
redacted) -- and a Mount Sinai
doctor's ID and pass, in the
unredacted name "Jessica
Bottomly, M.D." How did
Mount Sinai allow this? How
did this doctor treat? And, of
course, who are the CEO(s)?
For now, we note
that Sakoya Blackwood (Fews) appears
as a 2006 graduate of Evander
Childs High School in The
Bronx.
And, after the
assigned Federal Defender
sought to be relieved in a
sealed letter, now a new
lawyer, docketed on September
16: "NOTICE OF ATTORNEY
APPEARANCE: Anna Maria Estevao
appearing for Sakoya
Blackwood. Appearance Type:
CJA Appointment." Watch this
site.
From September 1:
Judge Furman: We're here for
arraignment and bail appeal.
Blackwood: I
plead not guilty. Judge: Have
you notified Victim-1?
AUSA Bracewell:
Yes, Victim-1's lawyer...We've
seized laptops and
tablets. AUSA: There was
a post arrest interview, it
was recorded on video. She
then invoked... Her messages
were saved on Google.
Federal Defender:
There are 12 seized devices.
Judge: Motions by Nov 18. US
by Dec 8. Next here on Nov 22,
11 am. Now on bail. [It is US
appealing]
AUSA: She used
different identities...
AUSA: She uses
VOIP, her cell is in her
mother's name, the IP address
in her brother's. She has no
legal status. She was in
Californis representing
herself as a
pediatrician
AUSA: She was
operating off the grid in a
unique way. She is a flight
risk. We are asking to seal
our exhibits.
AUSA: All she
needs to continue is an
Internet connection. FD: We
agree with Judge Willis that
she should be released.
Pre-Trial mis-wrote their
report. She is a domestic
violence victim.
FD: She gets
child support. Judge:
What about the Brooklyn
address on her NYC ID?
FD: It's a mail
drop. It's related to intimate
partner violence, to receive
confidential mail.
Judge: If she lives in The
Bronx, why is the mail drop in
Brooklyn?
FD: Brooklyn is
unknown to her abuser. She is
trying to get a green card.
She has no ties in
Jamaica. Judge: It seems
her family either didn't know
she was getting mail in other
people's names or didn't care.
FD: Making fake
profiles is easy. The US does
it to entrap [short eyes]. She
didn't use TOR.
[Judge Furman
knows of TOR from the Joshua
Schulte Wikileaks Vault 7
trial ("Brutal Kangaroo" book here).
Judge: If
convicted, she would be
deported to Jamaica. Here's my
ruling: there's an
overwhelming case for
detention. The incentive to
flee, inclination to
impersonate, etc. She will be
detained.
The case is US v.
Blackwood, 22-cr-460
(Furman)
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