| Man
Charged With Taliban Support Arraigned in
SDNY With Baby and Long Time Queens Lawyer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 29 – After
having
been
arrested
and taken off
a Qatar
Airways flight
at JFK airport,
Delowar
Mohammed
Hossain was presented
on July 26
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Stewart Aaron,
charged with
one count of
attempted
provision of
material
support for
terrorism. He
was adjudged
eligible for
free counsel
as was
assigned
experienced
Federal
Defender Amy
Gallicchio.
The US
government
sought, and
got,
detention,
without
prejudice to a
later
application
for release on
bond. The
preliminary
hearing was
set 30 days
out, for
August 26.
Inner City
Press wrote
that it would
have more on
this case,
which had been
assigned the
number
19-mj-6978.
Now
on August 29
Hossain was
brought, still
in chains,
into the 23rd
floor
courtroom of
SDNY Judge
Sidney H.
Stein. His new
lawyer,
retained, was
Steve Zissou.
He began by
informing
Judge Stein
that he last
appeared
before him in
1999, on a
case from
1978. Judge
Stein
deadpanned,
And you still
remember the
day.
(The
case, Inner
City Press can
report, was
USA v.
Chang-Sun,
78-cr-254,
re-assisgned
to Judge Stein
on March 18,
1999, from
which
then-Judge
PACER sayeth
not. Hossain's
case is now
19-cr-606; it
was wheeled
out to Judge
Stein by SDNY
Magistrate
Judge
Katharine H.
Parker on
August 26, the
thirtieth day
after
Hossain's
presentment.)
The August 29
proceeding
went quickly.
In the gallery
with six adult
family members
or supporters,
and one baby
with him
Hossain
smiled. Judge
Stein directed
that the
government
provide all
discovery by
September 30.
He set the
next
conference
date for
October 30 at
2:30 pm, by
which time
Zissou is to
say what
motion he
might or might
not file.
Hossein
was taken back
in shackles
into the
holding cell.
Later his
supporters
came out onto
Pearl Street.
We will
continue to
follow this
case - and
whether
diplomat
Zalmay
Khalilzad's
efforts to
find some
agreement
between the
Taliban and
the Trump
Administration
have any
impact on the
case.
While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.are
sealed or have
no case number
given, on July 17
before
Magistrate
Judge Kevin N. Fox,
things got
more dramatic.
In a case
that, hours
after the
defendants
were ordered
released on
bail remained listed
as "sealed,"
Munif Ahmed stands
accused of conspiracy
to distribute
large
quantities of
drugs
from China and
with telling
the now cooperating
witness,
"Don't f*ck
with me."
The
government
argued that
Ahmed is a
risk to flee
to Yemen; his
Criminal
Justice Act
lawyer said
no, blood
clots in his
legs prevent
him from
flying. Then
there was the
matter of
where Mr.
Ahmed lives -
on Anderson
Avenue in the
Bronx with his
uncle or in
the store on
West 168th
Street which
he lists on
his ID. This
was ascribed
to not having
an interpreter
during the
interview with
pre trial
services.
Ahmed
was ordered
released on a
$250,000 bond
with $30,000
in cash or
property. His
co-defendant
who called "Mr
Lazzaro"
before turning
himself in
must put up
$40,000 cash.
He drive Uber;
Inner City
Press predicts
he or Mr.
Lazzaro or his
associate will
move to relax
the conditions
of release to
extend beyond
the Southern
and Eastern
Districts of
New York.
Watch this
site.
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