| Indicted Commodities Trader
Smothermon Caused 200 To Be Laid Off Now Trial
Nov 1
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 5 – When the US arrested
commodities trader David
Smothermon in November 2018
misstating the value and
income of a firm, it did not
name the company.
In a June
11, 2019 proceeding before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District Judge
Alvin K.
Hellerstein,
however,
Assistant US
Attorney
Kristy J.
Greenberg said
it clearly,
blaming
the layoff of
200 people at
Trammo AG on
Smothermon.
Judge
Hellerstein
asked how long
the layoff
lasted.
AUSA Greenberg
said it left
ended - the
facility shut
down.
Smothermon's
lawyer Terry
W. Yates said
it will taken
him 90 days to
review the
75,000
documents the
government
says they
have.
Judge
Hellerstein
set a return
date on
September 20
and told Yates
to be ready at
that time to
declare his
motions or to
waive them; he
said he aims
to set a trial
date at that
time. Inner
City Press was
the only media
in the
courtroom on
June 11, and
will continue
to cover the
case, USA v.
Smothermon,
19-cr-382
(Hellerstein).
More on
Patreon, here.
And
now in October
2021, in the
run up to
trial
scheduled to
start November
1, Smothermon
has filed with
Judge
Hellerstein to
allow his
expert Kent
Bayazitoglu to
be in the
courtroom for
other
witnesses,
despite FRE
615 (which is
blocking
journalist
John Carreyrou
from attending
and covering
the Elizabeth
Holmes /
Theranos as
Inner City
Press covered
here).
And
the
prosecutors
have filed a
motion in
limine to try
to block
evidence of
the
defendant's
son's cerebral
palsy. Inner
City Press
aims to cover
the trial.
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