Manhattan
Man Accused of
Aid to
Pakistan
Terror Group
Presented
Without
Transparency
in SDNY Two Days
After Taliban Suspect
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope
video, II
III
NEW YORK CITY,
February 8 – The US Attorney
for the Southern District of
New York arrested and
apparently presented in the US
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
a Manhattan man for trying and
conpiring to assist Pakistan
based listed terrorist group Lashkar
e-Tayyiba. He
is "JESUS WILFREDO
ENCARNACION, a/k/a
“Jihadistsoldgier,”
“Jihadinhear,” “Jihadinheart,”
“Lionofthegood,” arrested last
night at John F. Kennedy
International Airport in
Queens, New York.
ENCARNACION was charged by a
criminal Complaint earlier
today with attempting and
conspiring to provide material
support to Lashkar e-Tayyiba
(“LeT”), a Pakistan-based
designated foreign terrorist
organization responsible for
multiple high-profile attacks,
including the infamous Mumbai
attacks in November
2008. ENCARNACION is
expected to be presented later
today before Magistrate Judge
Henry B. Pitman in Manhattan
federal court." As we've noted
before, it is not transparent
enough when and where these
presentments occur and can be
reported on. Manhattan U.S.
Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman
said: “As alleged, Jesus
Encarnacion, a Manhattan man,
plotted to travel to Pakistan
to join and train with the
terrorist organization Lashkar
e-Tayyiba, which is infamous
around the world for
perpetrating the lethal 2008
Mumbai terror attacks and
other atrocities. The
excellent work of the FBI and
NYPD stopped Encarnacion’s
alleged plan to support this
deadly terrorist organization
before he took flight, and now
he will face federal terrorism
charges." The day before on
February 7 the US Attorney
presented before Judge Ona
Wang an ongoing gaming
promoter, for defrauding his
investors. Inner City Press
was in the courthouse all
afternoon, covering among
other things the sentencing of
a man already held four years
in jail, but did not receive
notice until it left, with no
way to know when the
presentment would be. Here's
from the press release:
"Geoffrey S. Berman, the
United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York,
and William F. Sweeney Jr.,
the Assistant
Director-in-Charge of the New
York Field Office of the
Federal Bureau of
Investigation (“FBI”),
announced today that ROBERT
ALEXANDER was arrested this
morning on securities fraud
and wire fraud charges
stemming from his
participation in a scheme to
defraud investors by
soliciting investments in his
online gaming company (the
“Company”) through false
representations and using
investor funds for his own
personal
use.
ALEXANDER is expected to be
presented today in Manhattan
federal court before the U.S.
Magistrate Judge Ona T.
Wang. U.S. Attorney
Geoffrey S. Berman said:
“As alleged, Robert Alexander
lied to investors in his
online gaming company,
fabricating information about
his professional background
and promising to use investor
money solely to further the
aims of the business.
Instead, Alexander allegedly
used more than $1.3 million in
investor funds on, among other
things, gambling excursions,
entertainment venues, and
other personal expenses. As
this arrest demonstrates,
fraud on investors is no
game." No game indeed. While
the US government seeks a way
to draw down its military
forces in Afghanistan, on
February 6 the US Attorney for
the Southern District of New
York unsealed the indictment
of, and presented in the SDNY,
Afghan national Haji Abdul
Sattar Barakzai a/k/a Manaf
for allegedly supporting the
Taliban with heroin imports
and sales. Inner City Press,
covering the SDNY - on this
day, a sentencing
for crack sales and two
police
brutality cases about to
go to the jury - went the
courtroom of the assigned
judge, Paul Crotty, but it was
locked.
Down in
courtroom 5A they said, Manaf
is finished, it was done.
Here's from the arrest
warrant: "From at least in or
about January 2018, up to and
including in or about
September 2018, in Afghanistan
and elsewhere, and in an
offense begun and committed
outside the jurisdiction of
any particular state or
district of the United States,
HAJI ABDUL SATAR ABDUL MANAF,
a/k/a "Haji Abdul Sattar
Barakzai," the defendant, who
is expected to be first
brought to and arrested in the
Southern District of New York,
knowingly and intentionally
did engage in conduct that
would be punishable under
Section 841(a) of Title 21,
United States Code, if
committed within the
jurisdiction of the United
States, to wit, the
manufacture, distribution, and
possession with intent to
manufacture and distribute, of
one kilogram and more of
mixtures and substances
containing a detectable amount
of heroin, knowing and
intending to provide, directly
and indirectly, something of
pecuniary value to a person
and organization that has
engaged and engages in
terrorism and terrorist
activity, to wit, the Taliban
and its members, operatives,
and associates, having
knowledge that said persons
and organizations have engaged
in and engage in terrorism and
terrorist activity, which
activity violates the criminal
laws of the United States,
occurs in and affects foreign
commerce, and causes and is
designed to cause death and
serious bodily injury to
nationals of the United States
while the nationals are
outside of the United States."
Upcoming in the
SDNY is a just-filed complaint
by the Bangladesh Central Bank
for the $81 million hacking of
its funds, which were then
wired through the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, a case
that Inner City Press will
cover. Times change. Watch
this site.
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