| In SDNY Carpenters Union Case
Web-Only Reporting Sought As Crotty Signs
Protective Order
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 10 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed, on
June 27
before
Magistrate
Judge Robert
Lehrburger one
got unsealed, and
one of the two
defendants
after argument
got released
on $500,000
bond but
will home
detention and
no cell phone.
On July 10 a
modification was
proposed: no
more in-person
reporting, web
only.
SDNY Judge
Paul A.
Crotty to whom
the case is
assigned
suggested that
Pre Trial
Services send
me a letter he said
he will "so
order;"
he said he'll
be around most
of the summer
so if
intervention
is needed just
let him know.
He's signed
off on a
protective
order.
Back on
June 27 it was
announced:
"unsealing of
an Indictment
charging
leaders of two
local chapters
of the United
Brotherhood of
Carpenters and
Joiners of
America (the
“Union”) with
accepting tens
of thousands
of dollars in
cash bribes in
return for
guaranteeing
admission to
hundreds of
prospective
union
members.
SALVATORE
TAGLIAFERRO,
the president
of the Local
926 chapter of
the Union, and
JOHN DEFALCO,
the vice
president of
the Local 157
chapter of the
Union, were
each charged
with one count
of honest
services wire
fraud, one
count of
conversion of
union assets,
and one count
of conspiracy,
in connection
with their
involvement in
a scheme to
solicit cash
bribes in
exchange for
union
membership.
DEFALCO was
also charged
with one count
of witness
tampering and
one count of
obstruction of
justice, in
connection
with his
attempts to
interfere with
the
investigation
of the
scheme.
TAGLIAFERRO
and DEFALCO,
who were
arrested this
morning, are
expected to be
presented
later today."
Inner City Press
asked, but presentments
are not
scheduled.
This one occurred
after 2:30 pm
and it was a
doozy. The
government
represented by
Assistant U.S.
Attorneys
Jarrod
Schaeffer and
Thomas McKay
emphasized the
DeFalco tried
to obstruct
the
investigation,
urging people
to lie, using
burner cell
phones and
"spoofers."
Judge
Lehrburger
after a break
allowed
DeFalco out on
$500,000 bond
but he can
only have a
"stationary"
job and no
cell phone.
Install a land
line, he
ordered,
giving DeFalco
two weeks. 2:
On
July 10 before
Judge Crotty,
it was Tagliaferro's
lawyer Richard
Rosenberg
requesting the
web-only reporting.
Earlier
on June 27 a
defendant pled
guilty to wire
fraud for
embezzlement
and the case
number was
given:
19-mj-2954.
Cynthia
Jordan, now
61, was
arrested in
March for
stealing from
the Wall
Street firm in
which she
worked in the
accounting
department, to
the tune of
$688,142. Only
$73,000 of
this was by
wire
transfers, it
emerged in the
Mag Court with
Inner City
Press the only
media present.
There were
also 59 false
overtime
payments, 111
paychecks and
other hard
copy checks.
But it's all
under wire
fraud. The
maximum
sentence in 20
years in
prison but
there is a
plea
agreement,
with the
sentencing set
for October 3.
Inner City
Press will
continuing to
follow this
and other Mag
Court cases.
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On June
25 Magistrate
Judge
Lehrburger
ordered
detained a
defendant named
Martinez charged
with 33
kilograms of
cocaine, a
first name -
Eliot - and
a case number
were provided:
19-mj-5950.
But by 5 pm,
even after Judge
Lehrburger
had detained
Mr. Martinez
and set a July
8 hearing,
PACER said
"Cannot find
case
19-mj-5950."
So Inner City
Press reports:
Judge
Lehrburger
said he did
not find a
risk of
flight, but
given the
heavy weight
of coke, and
that Martinez
violated the
terms of his
probation in
New Jersey, he
would be
detained. This
came four
hours after an
appearance
before Judge
Castel of a
defendant
accused of offenses
against
children, a
defendant who
unlike
Martinez was
allowed free
on bond, to
his mother's
house in
Freehold, New
Jersey...
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