| Indicted
Guards Freed As #6ix9ine Carjacker Ellison
For MCC Bribes Has Jan 5 Hearing
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
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BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- Vulture
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 17 – Daniel Hernandez
a/k/a Tekashi 6ix9ine was
sentenced to 24 months of
total imprisonment in a
proceeding live
tweeted by Inner City
Press before U.S. District
Court Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer.
In November
2021 Hernandez' co-defendant
and car-jacker Anthony Ellison
a/k/a Harv, already serving a
long sentence, was indicted
again for a smuggle conspiracy
while in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center. The
prosecutors on November 4
announced: unsealing of an
indictment charging three
current or former Bureau of
Prisons (“BOP”) employees, as
well as eight former inmates
of the Metropolitan
Correctional Center (“MCC”),
of conspiring to smuggle
contraband such as drugs,
alcohol, and cellphones to
inmates at the MCC. Two of the
BOP employees were also
charged with obstructing
justice. Four of the
defendants were arrested today
and will be presented before
Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave
later today. During the course
of the scheme, in an effort to
obtain a lesser sentence for
ELLISON, GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT
submitted a letter to the
District Judge responsible for
sentencing inmate and
co-defendant ELLISON that
falsely described ELLISON as a
“model inmate” even though at
the time GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT was
smuggling contraband to
ELLISON and therefore knew he
was anything but a “model
inmate.” Relying on this
letter from GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT,
the District Judge who
presided over ELLISON’s
sentencing remarked that
ELLISON’s purported good
behavior in prison was
“impressive” and that
“[u]nless this is some sort of
Grisham novel, and people are
all corrupt and making all of
this up about [ELLISON], it
seems to me that it’s
unavoidable that [ELLISON’s]
trajectory at the MCC contains
a lot of good.”
Inner City Press
went to the detention of
release hearings of
Griffith-McKnight, lead
defendant Perry Joyner and
another inmate, Valerio, and
live tweeted it here
and here
(podcast here)
OK- detention
hearing on David Valerio, US
says he admitted wiring money
to MCC prson guard to not
search his cell
AUSA says Valerio
admitted wiring to also
indicted guard Mario Felciano.
Magistrate Judge Cave says he
will be detained OK- hearing
on Corrections Officer Perry
Joyner for allegedly bringing
in contraband to the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center
Unlike briber
Vslerio, detained, US is
agreeing to release (ex) guard
Joyner on $300,000 bond, no
contact with nemed
individuals. His mother is a
C.O. as well. He is hiring a
private lawyer.
Next up,
the defendant Inner City Press
focused on earlier today:
"trying for a lesser sentence
for [Harv] ELLISON,
GRIFFITH-MCKNIGHT submitted a
letter to the District Judge
describing ELLISON as a “model
inmate” even though she was
smuggling contraband to him"
All counsel
disappeared into Mag Court
chambers. After a time, they
returned. Judge said it was
just to save time...
DOJ is
agreeing to release this ex
guard, unlike Harv Ellison and
Valerio, on $150,000 bond.
In
mid-December, incarcerated
Ellison appeared before SDNY
Magistrate Judge Gabriel W.
Gorenstein and pleaded not
guilty. His CJA counsel asked
for a medical order, under
seal. A next proceeding was
set: January 5 before Judge
Carter. Watch this site.
Here's
a photo of Griffith-McKnight's
letter to Judge Engelmayer.
This new case has been
assigned to Judge Andrew L.
Carter.
6ix9ine was
ordered released by an Order
that at the US' request Judge
Engelmayer withheld until 4 pm
on April 2, analyzed on
Patreon here,
2-minute podcast here.
The case is
US v. Joyner, et al.,
21-cr-673, (Carter). More on
Patreon here.
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