| In SDNY Defendant Is Subject
of Secret Application Docket Number Not Given
to Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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Times (UK) Honduras
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 27 – How secretive is the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Court? On November
27 a defendant was brought in
with no docket number
given.
Assistant US Attorneys Michael
Longyear and a colleague said
quietly to Magistrate Judge
Robert W. Lehrburger that they
had made a "written
application" in connection
with the arraignment which
they did not describe.
Judge Lehrburger paused then
said he was granting the
written application, which he
also did not describe. Inner
City Press went to the office
it has been directed to go
with question and asked for
the docket number.
A staff
member began to inquire, when
it appears clear that AUSA
Longyear said no, don't tell
him. Judge Lehrburger's
deputy, who one would assume
must have the "mj" or
Magistrates Court number, told
Inner City Press there was no
number, one would have to
inquire with a District Judge,
whose door was locked.
Perhaps this defendant, who
Inner City Press is not in
this report naming, is a
cooperator. Perhaps he - or
she, we'll say - is the first
of a still sealed indictment.
But this type of bait and
switch faux transparency,
secret applications and cases
in a supposedly open Federal
courtroom, cannot be accepted.
Meanwhile Inner City Press
after for weeks asking the US
Attorney's Office for it
public exhibits in the OneCoin
/ US v. Mark Scott trial, as
were provided in recent trails
involving rapper 6ix9ine and
Honduras, has had to file a
Freedom of Information Act
request for that, and about
death eligible cases being
handed by the US Attorney's
Office. Watch this site.
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