| Booth
Charged With Thai Stock Boiler Room Was
Found Guilty Now Gets 10 Years
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 11 –
Robert Booth was on trial for
securities fraud, specifically
for his role in an indicted
boiler room conspiracy
involving Thailand, Cyprus and
elsewhere.
On April 18, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge Jed
S. Rakoff presided over the
first day of Booth's trial.
Inner City Press was
there.
A witness with a
heavy Australian accent
described speaking by phone
with, and investing with, a
John Summers and a Robert
Miller.
He acknowledged
on cross examination he had
never seen, or to his
knowledge spoken with, the
defendant Robert Booth, a/k/a
Trevor Nicholas, sitting in
the courtroom.
Booth's lawyer
inquired into the witnesses
recent discussion with the
prosecutors, and if the US
Attorney's Office hadn't been
more interested in Robert
Miller than Robert Booth. This
gave rise to an objection,
which was sustained.
On April 19, the
Assistant US Attorney
conducted direct examination
of the HSI Special Agent who
arrested Booth at JFK airport
on August 26, 2021 and seized
his phone and IDs.
On cross
examination, Booth's lawyer
got the agent to admit the
phone and papers had been on
the table in front of Booth.
But Booth told the agent that
they were his, and the agent
said no one else could access
the secure interview booth.
Move on, Judge Rakoff said. He
kept it moving.
On April 20 in
court, another agent testified
about Cellebrite Premium,
saying it is $1000 a search
and his agency now has 25
machines.
On April
21, the first of two
cooperating witnesses
testified. The second, Jerome
Austin, did not appear in
Magistrates Court where Inner
City Press awaited to cover
his plea. Rather, he went
before the Part I Judge J.
Paul Oetken and was released
on $50,000 bond with an August
23 sentencing before Judge
Rakoff. He will testify on
Monday, April 25.
Judge
Rakoff said closing arguments
could begin on the afternoon
of Tuesday April 26; he noted
that he would sit by
designation on the Second
Circuit Court of Appeals on
Wednesday, April 27.
He did hear cases
there that day - and this:
"ROBERT LENARD BOOTH, a/k/a
“Trevor Nicholas,” was found
guilty on all counts of a
three-count Indictment."
On August 11, he
got ten years: "ROBERT LENARD
BOOTH, a/k/a “Trevor
Nicholas,” was sentenced to
ten years in prison for
defrauding investors of almost
$2 million and laundering the
proceeds as part of an
international boiler room
scheme. Back in April, a
jury convicted BOOTH of
conspiracies to commit
securities fraud, wire fraud
and money laundering.
U.S. District Judge Jed S.
Rakoff imposed the sentence in
Manhattan federal court."
This case is US
v. Booth, et al., 21-cr-652
(Rakoff).
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