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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 21 –
The impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic on small business, in
this case a small criminal
defense law practice, was
revealed on April 21 when
lawyer Bryan Matthew Konoski
asked to be relieved of his
assignment to represent Tyler
Toro.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman asked
Konoski to explain why. He
replied that his firm Treyvus
& Konoski PC has had to
lay off its secretaries and
paralegals, and it is
difficult to represent clients
like Tyler Toro without them.
Konoski was already being
assisted pro bono by former
Federal Defender Sabrina
Shroff; on April 21 Judge
Berman who is inquiring into
how Tyler Toro might be
released from custody about
the Coronavirus' spread also
appointed the CJA lawyer on
duty, Gerald J. Chiara. He
graciously agreed to work on
the case in whatever way is
useful.
Shroff pointed out the
disparity of, for example,
Michael Cohen being released
still owing two years on his
sentence, while Tyler Toro
remains detained.
Judge Berman
implored Assistant US Attorney
Elizabeth Anna Hanft to seek
information from the Bureau of
Prisons, since they both work
for the Justice Department --
a push echoed later on April
21 by EDNY Magistrate Judge
James Orenstein, here. This
SDNY case, which Inner City
Press will continue to cover,
is US v. Toro, 18-cr-218
(Berman).
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