| In SDNY The Case Of The
Swapped Out Lithograph Traces Back to 2009
Meth Release
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 31 – Valdin Kadric was
arrested in 2009 as part of a
New Jersey based meth ring.
In 2011 he was
quoted benefiting from a New
Jersey law sponsored by NJ
Senator Ray Lesniak would
allow 1,000 inmates with
addictions to leave prison two
years early by completing a
substance abuse treatment
course. Valdin Kadric said he
was incarcerated many times
because of his drug use before
seeking treatment. He said the
bill is a huge step for
prisoners who are addicts
trying to return to
society.”
Now
in 2019 Valdin Kadric a/k/a
Valdin O'Donnell is charged
with transporting a stolen
lithograph from New Jersey to
New York, for auction. He was
initially charged with
aggrevated identity theft as
well, involving bank accounts
in Germany and a rented
Porsche in Hawaii.
But
Assistant US Attorney Tara La
Morte before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Stewart D.
Aaron on December 30, where
Valdin waived his right to be
indicted by a grand jury and
consented to an information -
with only the one count,
Interstate Transportation of
Stolen Property.
As to the lithograph, the May
1 complaint said that it was
purchased an Auction House-1
in 2002, and thereafter
displayed in Victim-1's
residence in New Jersey.
Valdin lived there from 2009,
with Individual-1 until 2015,
then without Individual-1
until 2017.
In 2018 Auction House-1 found
that the lithgraph had been
switched out for a forgery -
by October 2018 it was
consigned for sale at Auction
House-2 by Consigner-1.
Meanwhile Valdin was using an
ATM in Germany and renting a
Porsche in Honolulu. The rest
is history. The case is
US v. O'Donnell,
19-mj-4222 (Aaron).
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