| In SDNY Man From Ghana Was
Remanded To MCC For Bank Fraud But Ordered
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 13 -- The last case of
what's been called the
Coronavirus Week of the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
involved a defendant from
Ghana named Duodo.
His
Federal Defender Clay Kaminsky
pleaded that he not be
remanded to the Metropolitan
Correctional Center, given the
ban on lawyer visits and the
possible further
lockdown.
But SDNY
Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang
said there was clearly a risk
of flight. She asked if he
could live with a relative
rather than alone. The Federal
Defender found a relative in
Albany, willing to drive down
and pick him up.
But it was too late to put on
a GPS bracelet, as it is
called.
Those remaining
in the SDNY Magistrates Court
at 6 pm on Friday, other than
Inner City Press (see its
Coronavirus and SDNY scoop here),
were entirely law enforcement
and Assistant US Attorneys,
ranging from Elizabeth
Espinosa through Matthew
Hellman to Danielle Sassoon.
They waited to get warrants
signed, and some laughed when
the Federal Defender told
Judge Wang she could and
should free Duodo. She did
not.
A bail
hearing was set for Monday,
March 16 at 10 am, with the US
represented by AUSA Jun Xiang.
Inner City Press can now
report that Mack Duodo has
been ordered freed on $50,000
bond, with "no possession of
personal identifying
information of others, no new
bank accounts without approval
of Pre Trial Services and no
access to the Internet."
The case is US v. Duodo,
20-mj-2797 (Wang).
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