| In SDNY Chinese National
Charged With Money Laundering Gets Free
Milbank and Bail
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 24 -- It was past 6 p.m.
back on February 19 when two
defendants both with a Chinese
interpreter were brought into
the Magistrates Court of the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
One of the two
had the white shoe law firm
Milbank, in the person of
Katherine R. Goldstein to
represent him. He faced and
faces money laundering charges
but filed a financial
affidavit seeking to have the
government and tax payers fund
Milbank's representation.
SDNY
Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses
noted that the defendant owns
a house worth between $600,000
and $700,000 dollars. She said
his savings account, the
balance of which she did not
disclose, was disconcertingly
high for a person like him
with employment listed as a
technician in a nail salon.
His provisional Milbank
counsel, partner
Katherine
Goldstein, did
not explain
these
finances.
Now
on February
24 Inner City
Press can
report that
the case has
belatedly gone
into PACER, as
12-mj-1741,
and that Goldstein
got another
questionably
indigent client on
February 24,
the brother on
Honduras' President, Tony
Hernandez, here.
Inner City Press said it would
have more about this case. And
now we have the name of the
two defendants: Zhao Chen
Hong, represented by Goldstein
and released on $100,000 bond,
and "FNU LNU a/k/a Haitoo
Mai," with Federal Defender
Jennifer Willis, released for
$75,000. The case(s) have yet
to be assigned. They are US v.
FNU LNU 20-mg-1541 (Moses /
Lehrburger).
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