| Ex K&L
Gates' Willie Dennis After Conviction Pro
Se For Harassment Wants and Gets Counsel
By Matthew Russell
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SDNY COURTROOM,
Oct 26 – In the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York on
November 19, 2021 a detention
proceeding was held by
Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang
on a defending brought in from
the Dominican Republic the
night before.
Willie E. Dennis,
formerly a lawyer at K&L
Gates, was charged with cyber
stalking. At first the US
Attorney's Office was OK with
his release, but them things
switched. Inner City Press
live tweeted it below.
On October 13,
2022 Willie Dennis was on
trial, sitting alone at the
defense table with five at the
prosecutors' table in front of
him. One was reading his
threatening emails to a
K&L Gates target, who said
he was terrified for his wife
and children.
Slowly the
gallery filled with lawyers
for the next case, about
Bernie Madoff. Some of them
looked amused, then concerned.
One asked, How's that on the
stand?
Dennis made
objections, and got sidebars.
He was denied one at the end,
but was told he can raise his
issues on cross-examination.
When the jurors left, so did
the two US Marshals in the
back row, as if on alert.
Dennis put on his winter coat
and arranged his papers on the
table, soon to be used for the
left over Bernie Madoff case.
On October 14
conducting cross examination,
Dennis asked about how he had
been locked out of his email
and computer files at 1:44 am
and if K&L Gates had ever
done that before. Once, it was
said, not in the New York
office.
In the docket,
heavily redacted, is an email
from Willie Davis arguing that
he is being prosecuted because
he exposed the "penetration of
KL Gates' network servers in
Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong
and Seattle by Chinese
Communist Party agents." Photo
here.
On October 17,"
conviction in federal court of
WILLIE DENNIS for
cyberstalking three victims,
all his former colleagues at a
global law firm (the “Law
Firm”). The jury
convicted DENNIS today
following a one-week trial
before U.S. District Judge Jed
S. Rakoff."
On October 26,
Judge Rakoff granted a request
from Willie Dennis' brother
Jeffrey to appoint counsel for
him; the brother said Willie
Davis is in Brooklyn Hospital
for heart surgery. He wants
his laptop - but now, it must
be through counsel, in joint
telephone calls to chambers.
We will continue to cover the
case to sentencing.
From November
2021 and since: Willie E.
Davis is currently in FBI
custody in 290 Broadway. He
has been assigned a Federal
Defender, who has spoken 3 or
4 times today with Dennis by
phone.
Judge Wang: Why
is this not in person? AUSA:
He arrived from outside the
US, we don't know his vax
status.
US says:
"DENNIS, a U.S. citizen, was
arrested this week in the
Dominican Republic... He
engaged in a campaign of
harassment, intimidation, and
threats against multiple
individuals, including other
partners, who worked at the
[K&L Gate Law] Firm."
Dennis owns a
multi-family building, and
property in the Dominican
Republic, but he has debts. He
is being given a
publicly-funded Federal
Defender.
AUSA: He was
arrested in the Dominican
Republic on Nov 16 and
arrested in the US yesterday.
Judge Wang: You are charged
with four counts of
cyber-stalking.
Judge Wang took a
break and returned, to rule:
"I am accepting recommendation
he be detained until fitted
with a bracelet or co-signers
can sign the bond."
Jump cut to
August 15, 2022 when the case,
reassigned to Judge Jed S.
Rakoff, had on short notice a
phone conference that pointed
to an in-person one: "Minute
Entry for proceedings held
before Judge Jed S. Rakoff:
Telephone Conference as to
Willie Dennis held on
8/15/2022. Present were the
defendant and his consulting
counsel, Anthony Cecutti and
Kastine Thiele, AUSA Rushmi
Bhaskaran for the government
and a court reporter. The
Court sets a conference in
courtroom 14B to consider the
defendant's application to
relieve consulting appointed
counsel and substitute in new
consulting assigned counsel."
Inner City Press
went and live tweeted it here.
On October 7, two subpoenas were
quashed: "Present for Lawrence Pratt was
counsel Hadassah Waxman. After argument,
attorney Waxman's motion to quash the subpoena
for her client is granted. Present pro se was
Michael Mueller, counsel for defendant Willie
Dennis's ex-wife. After argument attorney
Mueller's motion to quash the subpoena is
granted."
This case is US
v. Dennis, 20-cr-623 (Rakoff)
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