| In SDNY Kenyatta Pleads To
Loansharking For 37 Month Deal Off Sealed 2017
Wiretaps
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 17 – Charles
Kenyatta was indicted for
narcotics and loansharking
conspiracy in July 2019, a
sealed indictment and arrest
warrant signed by
then-Magistrate Judge Henry B.
Pitman of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York.
The
discovery materials in his
case, it emerged, included
Title III wiretaps that had
been authorized by District
Judge William H. Pauley III on
November 30, 2017. They had
been ordered sealed on
December 18, 2017 by
then-District Judge Richard J.
Sullivan.
On January 17
Kenyatta re-appeared in the
Magistrates Court, this time
to plead guilty to a single
county, "extortionate
extension of credit."
He said it
happened in 2019, then
modified it to include 2017
and 2018 after questioning by
Assistant US Attorney Aline
Flodr and then Magistrate
Judge Katharine H. Parker.
For
this loansharking he received
a plea agreement from the US
Attorney's Office with a
sentencing guideline of 37 to
46 months imprisonment, and a
fine range of $10,000 to
$95,000. He will be sentenced
by Chief Judge Coleen McMahon,
along no date has yet been
set. The case is US v.
Kenyatta, 19-cr-496 (McMahon /
Parker).
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