| In SDNY Man Accused Of Fake
Beto and Bernie Websites Pleads Not Guilty
With Alzheimers
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 6 – An 80-year old man
charged with defrauding
political donors of $250,000
with fake website for Bernie
Sanders and now former
Presidential candidate Beto
O'Rourke, John Pierre Dupont,
was presented and entered not
guilty pleas late on November
6 in the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Magistrates Court,
before chief Magistrate Judge
Gabriel W.
Gorenstein.
Inner City
Press was the only media - the
only person - in the Mag Court
gallery.
Dupont appeared disheveled and
his court-appointed lawyer
said he has Alzheimer's and
kidney failure. He was also
arraigned for bail jumping,
having failed to appear then
been detained in Arizona and
Oklahoma and finally
transferred to New York.
Dupont did not argue to be
released on bond, but did
request and receive medical
order from Judge Gorenstein.
His lawyer asked that he be
taken to a real hospital and
not just treated inside the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center.
The indictment for wire fraud
and identity theft, signed
under seal by SDNY Magistrate
Judge Katharine H. Parker on
June 13 and unsealed on
November 6, said that the
defendant also goes by the
aliases John Gary Rinaldo and
John Gary.
The second case, for bail
jumping, was not yet in PACER
when Inner City Press checked
after the arraignment. It has
been assigned to SDNY Judge
Edgardo Ramos, currently
presiding of a trial
concerning the purported
crypto currency OneCoin.
Dupont's wire fraud case is US
v. Dupont, 19-cr-444
(Berman). More on
Patreon here.
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