| Alleged Racehorse Druggers
Appear in SDNY With Doctor Fishman Timing
Protest Overruled
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 30 -- In what was called
a racehorse doping take-down,
the US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
on the morning of March 9
announced more than a dozen
arrests.
Inner City Press
went to cover the presentments
in the SDNY Magistrates Courts
and personally witnessed 11 of
them, all given bail packages
and released: " Defendants up
now, arrested 4-5 am in race
horse drug adulteration
conspiracy case: Alexander
Chan (Federal Defender),
Christopher Marino, Henry
Argueta, Kristian Rhein
(retained, R), Michael
Tannuzzo, Nicholas Surick (R),
Rebecca Linke and Ross Cohen
(R)."
Now on June
30, Judge Vyskocil held
another proceeding in the
case, which Inner City Press
covered. While much of the
back and forth was
deferential, the lawyer for
Doctor Seth Fishman opposed
exclusion of time for purposes
of the Speedy Trial Act.
This drew looks. But it
is the defendant's right.
Judge Vyskocil granted the
exclusion of time,w with all
parties to re-appear on
November 19. The case is US
v. Navarro et
al., 20-cr-160
(Viskocil).
Back in
March , two masterminds were
not presented, at least in New
York - apparently, they were
presented in Federal court in
Florida. Most defendants got
released the same day by
signing a $100,000 bond, in
some cases $40,000 or $50,000.
They were told
not to communicate with
co-defendants, or to be in the
presence of racehorses without
their owners, or the owners of
the premises they are stabled
in. Here
was Inner City Press' live
tweeted thread.
Now on
April 2 all 19 defendants -
only two of them present on
the phone - were arraigned by
the assigned District Judge,
Mary Kay Viskocil. The phone
was used due to Coronavirus;
at one point, someone on the
call said he had just taken a
shower.
The
defense lawyers or some of
them asked to have Emma
Greenwood appointed as
Coordinating Discovery
Attorney. But the lawyer for
Seth Fishman said while he
would not oppose it, Fishman
would do his own coordinating.
An issue
arose about conditions of
informing licensing
authorities - both
thoroughbred and statndard
bred - and how stables owners
will police the conditions.
New filings are anticipated.
The next
conference was set for June
30; Judge Viskocil put off any
decision on severance of cases
at least until then. She made
a point of saying no one could
photograph (how?), record or
rebroadcast the proceeding,
which of course Inner City
Press obeyed. But at what
point will these shifts to
phone calls and, it seems from
the Magistratres Court, video
/ Skype make these
restrictions entirely
obsolete? Inner City Press is
pursing all these issues. This
19 defendant case is US v.
Navarro et al., 20-cr-160
(Viskocil).
But what of
Amr Abdelaziz of Phoenix
Thoroughbreds, who used horses
to launder money from OneCoin
about which the SDNY
prosecutors were so concerned
until, like with the UN, they
weren't? Watch this site.
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