| Gillier
Trial For Fraud on Plane Part Companies
Moves Ahead Now Evidence of Flight
Disputed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 19 – Stefan Gillier, a
Belgian citizen, was charged
with defrauding airplane parts
manufacturers out of millions
of dollars. Now he has health
problems in
detention.
On
September 30 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Richard M. Berman held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Gillier's
lawyer said his client was
recently moved from the MCC to
the MDC in Brooklyn (unlike,
say, accusing CIA leaker
Joshua Schulte, as Inner City
Press first reported).
In the MDC,
his lawyer said, Gillier
cannot be a salt free diet. He
washed the salt off food when
he can, and foregoes some meat
that is too salty.
Judge Berman said defense
motions were due by November
10.
On October 6,
2021, the case was reassigned
to Judge Paul A. Engelmayer.
He scheduled trial for July 5,
2022 - then, September 13,
2022.
On September 6,
Gilliers lawyer wrote to Judge
Engelmayer that "this morning,
I received a CORRLINKS message
from Mr. Gillier relaying that
he had been tested on Friday
and was moved to the 'Maras
Unit (83), highest security
unit here'" - with no laptop.
A delay was requested.
On September 7,
after a telephone conference
that Inner City Press covered,
counsel wrote in again, that
they scheduled a legal call
through "the Skedda online
booking system." But it hasn't
been working and Judge
Engelmayer's intervention with
the Legal Department of MDC
Brooklyn was sought.
The intervention
will be coming: "Updates
regarding setting up a legal
call with Stefan Gillier.
ENDORSEMENT: The Court will
contact the MDC directly to
underscore its order that a
substantially longer call with
Mr. Gillier and his counsel be
arranged for Friday. The Court
directs the government to
convey this message to the MDC
in no uncertain terms. SO
ORDERED."
On September 15,
with Gillier on trial wearing
headphones for interpretation
and two US Marshals guarding
him, Inner City Press was in
the courtroom when his payment
through Bank of Montreal for a
virtual office in Manhattan
was detailed, apparently for
venue. His counsel did not
cross examine, then with the
jury out on break asked to
speak with the judge on a
point of personal privilege.
After the discussion, it
turned out no more public
read-out was required. The
trial continues.
On September 17,
the prosecutors asked Judge
Engelmayer to allow them to
present "Evidence of Flight
and Continued Absence." This
include an order of attachment
executed at Gillier's
warehouse in Kansas, and a
flight on Air Canada on June
15, 2006.
Gillier was
arrested in Italy on May 26,
2019, and he was extradited to
the US on June 26, 2022. The
defense says he had no reason
to return to the US, so it
does not reflect consciousness
of guilt. Watch this
site.
The case is
US v. Gillier, 11-cr-409
(Engelmayer)
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