| In SDNY Tekashi 6ix 9ine
Co-Defendant Kooda B Pleads To Count 9 To Turn
Self In June 17 Fuguan Echo
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon,
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 3 – When Fuguan Lovick
appeared in court shackled on
May 9 to plea guilty in the
Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods case
best known for the involvement
of rapper Tekashi 6ix 9ine
a/k/a Daniel Hernandez, it
began as a routine
allocution. Then Lovick
implied, at least temporarily,
that it was self defense. See
below.
On June 3
a related guilty plea went
more smoothly, a simple
"Minute Entry for proceedings
held before Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer:Change of Plea
Hearing as to Kintea McKenzie
held on 6/3/2019., Plea
entered by Kintea McKenzie
(11) Count 8s Not Guilty.
Defendant present (on bond)
with attorney, Lisa Scolari.
AUSA Michael Longyear present.
Court reporter present.
Defendant sworn, changes plea
of not guilty to GUILTY on
Count 8s. Bond continued to
June 17, 2019 at 2:00 PM. The
defendant is to self-surrender
to the USMS at this date and
time. See transcript. Plea
entered by Kintea McKenzie
(11) Guilty as to Count 8s.
Sentencing set for 10/4/2019
at 10:30 AM in Courtroom 1305,
40 Centre Street, New York, NY
10007 before Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer. (ajs)."
The U.S.
Attorney's Office "announced
that KINTEA MCKENZIE, a/k/a
“Kooda B,” pled guilty today
in Manhattan federal court in
connection with a shooting
outside a hotel in Times
Square on June 2, 2018, in
furtherance of the Nine Trey
Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey”)
criminal enterprise.
U.S. District Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer accepted the
defendant’s guilty
plea.
U.S. Attorney
Geoffrey S. Berman said:
“Today, Kintea McKenzie
admitted his responsibility
for a brazen shooting in
bustling Times Square.
In coordination with Tekashi
6ix 9ine and other Nine Trey
gang members, McKenzie
arranged to have another
individual shoot at a rival
gang member. We continue
our daily work with our law
enforcement partners to keep
our communities safe and to
vigorously investigate acts of
violence committed by gang
members.”
As alleged in the
Indictment and statements made
in open court: Nine Trey was a
criminal enterprise involved
in committing numerous acts of
violence, including shootings,
robberies, and assaults in and
around Manhattan and
Brooklyn. Members and
associates of Nine Trey
engaged in violence to
retaliate against rival gangs,
to promote the standing and
reputation of Nine Trey, and
to protect the gang’s
narcotics business. On
or about June 2, 2018,
MCKENZIE agreed to accept
money from Daniel Hernandez,
a/k/a “Tekashi 6ix 9ine,” to
shoot at a rival gang member
and rapper who was staying at
a hotel in Times
Square. MCKENZIE
helped to organize the
shooting in order to scare
that rival gang member." We'll
continue to cover this.
Back on May 9
when Lovick, also known as Fu
Banga, offered his own
description of what he did on
April 21, 2018 at the Barclays
Center in Brooklyn, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer did
not accept it.
Lovick said that
outside the door of a boxer, a
group ran at him; he drew a
gun and fired it into the air
to make them step
back.
Judge Engelmayer
said this allocution wouldn't
do, with its implication of
self defense and failure to
mention the Nine Trey Gangsta
Blood organization. He urged
Lovick, still in chains, to
spend ten minutes with his
defense lawyer Jeffrey G.
Pittell to discuss a prepared
allocation which would jibe
with counts six and seven of
the superseding indictment to
which he was ostensibly
pleading
guilty.
Pittell, with
whom Inner City Press spoke
just outside the courtroom,
had previously filed a motion
to suppress and to dismiss. He
had an interesting argument
that the New York State crime
of menacing - trying to cause
the fear of bodily harm -
would not fit even the
superseding lesser included
charge to which Lovick was
pleading guilty. Pittell told
Inner City Press this is an
issue of first
impression.
But as Judge
Engelmayer put it when after
two breaks he accepted
Lovick's guilty plea, lawyers
can always make arguments but
it was his view that there was
no real claim of self-defense
in this case. Pittell referred
to a video of the incident but
Judge Engelmayer said he had
not seen it. Venue was also
questioned; that too was
smoothed over.
As more and more
of the initial defendants in
the overall USA v. Jones
/ Tekashi 6ix 9ine case
plead guilty, to some the
remaining question is the
pleading-out of the
defendant(s) who are NOT
affiliated with the Nine Trey
Gangsta Bloods. Inner City
Press will continue to cover
this case. For now, a bit more
on Patreon, here.
For more on this case, including
the April 30, 2019 multiple defendant discovery
conference before Judge Engelmayer, click here.
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