In
SDNY Mag Court
Counterfeit Trafficking
Defendant Was Freed & Now
2 Years Probation
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 1 – Hai Long Huang was
arrested at 6:05 am on October
29, 2019, on a charge of
trafficking counterfeit goods,
and showed up just before 6 pm
in the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District Court
of New York
Magistrates
Court, in
shackles and
with a Federal
Defender.
He was charged
with a scheme
to traffic
counterfeit Timberland
and UGG boots, and
with selling
such boots to
an undercover
agent at the
historic corner of
Delancey
Street and
Suffolk Street
on the
Lower East
Side of
Manhattan.
Huang's
was the last
case of the
day, and to
his credit
SDNY
Magistrate
Judge James L.
Cott after
disappearing
into his
robing room
with the
prosecutors
and Federal
Defender and
another,
emerged to say
on the record
that because
of the hour,
no written
Pre-Trial
Services
report was
ready. The
report was
given orally
and will be
memorialized
in writing
later. Okay,
then.
Huang was
freed on a
bail package:
$75,000
personal
recognizance
bond to be
signed by
another
financial
responsible
person in a
week's time,
passport
already
surrendered,
travel
restricted to
the Southern
and Eastern
Districts of
New York.
Consular
notification
was given.
One of the
participant
remarked to
Inner City
Press as the
SDNY Mag Court
was locked up
for the night,
You must have
bigger cases
to cover than
this.
Well,
no. Inner City
Press
continued to
follow the
case. On
February 1, 2022,
Huang appeared
for sentencing
before
District Judge
Naomi Reice
Buchwald, and
Inner City
Press covered
it. The
defense lawyer
argued
persuasively
that Huang was
a hard worker.
Judge Buchwald
cited that
three of
his four children
are in college,
and sentenced him
to two years
probation and to pay
$150,000. It
was a show of
mercy, or of
individualized
justice.
It's
US v. Huang,
19-cr-853
(Buchwald)
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