| In Drug Case of Venezuela VP
Mones Wants Sanctions As Another US Probe
Dumped In
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Transcript
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COURTHOUSE, Nov 11 –
Michols Orsini Quintero is
charged with being a drug king
pin in Venezuela, Turkey,
Russia and the Dominican
Republic.
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.
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
was mulling withdrawing
Victor Mones Coro's plea.
Mones moved to
withdraw the plea; the Court
accepted the withdrawal of
plea.
Now on
November 11, Mones has
requested sanctions, stating
that on October 25 the US
Attorney's Office turned over
a hard drive containing,
erroneously, "confidential
material regarding another
investigation that DHS had
mistakenly copied onto the
drive." We'll have more on
this.
In the interest
of increased transparency, here
is the October 28 transcript,
on Inner City Press'
DocumentCloud, here.
And Inner City
Press' filing to further
unseal in Nejad has been
docketed.
This case is US
v. Orsini Quintero, 19-cr-144
(Hellerstein)
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