Elendu Charged With South
Korea Law Firm Scam Got New Lawyer Now Pleads
Guilty
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 11 – Ikechukwu Elendu is
charged with defrauding, among
others, a South Korean law
firm and a Sint Maarten health
services
company.
On October
9, 2020 U.S. District Judge
for the Southern District of
New York Denise L. Cote held a
change of counsel proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Outgoing counsel
promised to held the incoming,
Anthony Cecutti. Judge Cote
asked if he will be free for
the scheduled trial on June
28, 2021.
He said yes.
Jump cut to
August 6, 2021. There was no
trial, amid COVID. And now
Elendu was pleading guilty,
allocuting to setting up
accounts at Chase and Fremont
Bank, FDIC insured.
The case is US v.
Elendu, 20-cr-179 (Cote)
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