| In SDNY Patel For Secret Bid
On Super Storm Sandy Tunnel Faces Surrender
Amid Vaccine
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 27 -- A defendant named
Paresh Patel was quietly
presented in and immediately
released by the Magistrates
Court of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York on
February 18, 2020.
He waived
indictment and Assistant US
Attorney Ryan Finkel agreed he
could be immediately released
and travel to Florida.
Then Inner City Press, which
was the only media in the
Magistrates Court that evening
reported the crime with which
Patel is charged: obstructing
a federal grand jury
investigation into bid rigging
and fraud in connection with
contracts awarded by the MTA
for Superstorm Sandy-related
repairs.
It turns out that Patel set up
an engineering consulting firm
named Satkirti Consulting
Engineering LLC, registered in
the name of Patel's daughter.
The company bid on the
Joralemon Tube Project, for
the 4 and 5 train travel
between Manhattan and
Brooklyn.
So
why now was the US Attorney's
Office processing Patel so
quietly, with release on
consent and information
withheld the day of
presentment so it presumably
would be reported?
Now facing
his surrender to prison, Judge
Wood on April 27 issued this:
"ORDER as to Paresh Patel: The
Court notes the availability
of COVID-19 vaccines to
federal inmates, and hence the
risk of being infected by that
disease in federal prison is
greatly diminished from the
time of Mr. Patel's
sentencing. The Court hereby
schedules a remote conference
on May 5, 2021, at 12:00 p.m.
to address surrender. The
Court will issue a separate
Order with dial-in
information. (Status
Conference set for 5/5/2021 at
12:00 PM before Judge Kimba M.
Wood)."
Inner City Press
followed up, and will continue
to follow up. The case is US
v. Patel, 20-cr-142 (Wood /
Moses).
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