| In Drug Case of Venezuela
and Turkey US Attorney Gave Discovery Late
Post Nejad Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Transcript
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 28 – Michols Orsini
Quintero is charged with being
a drug king pin in Venezuela,
Turkey, Russia and the
Dominican Republic.
Now the
Department of Justice wants to
withhold information about a
cooperating witness, not only
from the press and public, but
even from the defense.
On September 23
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District Alvin K.
Hellerstein held a
publicly-noticed proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
It emerged
that AUSA Amanda Houle has
made ex parte sealed filings
with Judge Hellerstein, with
not a wisp of them in the
docket.
There was a
discussion of showing some but
not all of the information to
Orsini's lawyer, Sabrina
Shroff, on an "attorney's eyes
only" basis. Shroff, to her
credit, pushed back.
Now on
October 28, Judge Hellerstein
held another proceeding after
the US Attorney's Office
late-produced some eight
terabytes of information, more
than double the volume it
produced before one of the
co-defendant pleaded guilty.
This is post the US v. Nejad
case Inner City Press has
reported on and in which it
anticipates making a filing -
watch this site.
While
Shroff is still digging
through the terabytes,
attorney Christine Chung is
mulling withdrawing Victor
Mones Coro's plea. Judge
Hellerstein said he won't give
"piecemeal" relief. Nor did he
award sanctions. But
irregularities in the US
Attorney's Office's provision
of information continue to be
exposed. In the interest of
increased transparency, here
is the October 28 transcript,
on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud,
here.
The case is US v.
Orsini Quintero, 19-cr-144
(Hellerstein)
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