| Indicted Commodities Trader
Smothermon Caused 200 To Be Laid Off Now Cases
Stayed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 22 – 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.
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 ws
blocking
journalist
John Carreyrou
from attending
and covering
the Elizabeth
Holmes /
Theranos as
Inner City
Press covered
here).
And
the
prosecutors
filed a motion
in limine to
try to block
evidence of
the
defendant's
son's cerebral
palsy. Inner
City Press
still aims to
cover the
trial - but it
has reported
been stayed
pending a
resolution of
a related
issue in a
related case
by the US
Supreme Court.
On
September 20,
2022, a
related civil
case was heard
by SDNY Judge
Edgardo Ramos,
these days
presiding over
the US v.
Trevor Milton
trial. After
hearing of the
stay in the
criminal case,
Judge Ramos
agreed to stay
this civil
case, but
asked for an
update with 48
hours of the
Supreme Court
decision.
This
civil case is
Trammo, Inc.
v. Smothermon,
22-cv-4446
(Ramos)
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