| In SDNY Murky Mag Court Extradition
to France Sought For Steve Hall For Home
Invasion
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 1 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed, on July 1 before
Magistrate
Judge Barbara
Moses two
defendants
were presented
without any
case numbers.
But some, this
time, had
numbers: for
example,
"STEVEN
HALL
EXTRADITION
19-mj-5949."
Inner City
Press went to
cover the Mag
Court and
found that
this was no
extradiction
from New York
to another
state, but to
France. Steven Hall
appeared in
a white t-shirt
and told Judge
Moses he
needed only a
stand-by
French
translator.
There were no
fewer than
three
lawyers-only
sessions
behind closed
door,
subsequently
explained as
involving only
"procedural"
issues like if
this could
even be done
without the
involvement of
a District
Judge. (Just
after, three
grand jury
indictments
were signed,
one of them
fully sealed
along with
warrants).
Hall
was charged
by a French
investigative
judge with
aggravated
assault and
home invasion.
He consented
to detention,
with an
extradition hearing
set for July
16 - two days
after Bastille
Day...
The
last
presentment of
July 1, a
Modesto Arias
Soto, had been
arrested on
West 105th
Street. There
was some
questioning of
whether he was
entitled to a
free Federal
Defender -
Judge Moses
approved it
but said it
might be
revoked. He
was released
on a $25,000
bond with a
preliminary
hearing set
for July 31.
The
penultimate, a
Mr. Nunez, had
been sent by
the Federal
court in Maine
to a halfway
house in The
Bronx
from which he
got thrown out.
He was
released on
$10,000 bond; his report
was presented
to the lawyers
only behind
closed doors.
And so it goes
in the SDNY
Murky Mag
Court.
Cynthia
Jordan, now
61, was
arrested in
March for
stealing from
the Wall
Street firm in
which she
worked in the
accounting
department, to
the tune of
$688,142. Only
$73,000 of
this was by
wire
transfers, it
emerged in the
Mag Court with
Inner City
Press the only
media present.
There were
also 59 false
overtime
payments, 111
paychecks and
other hard
copy checks.
But it's all
under wire
fraud. The
maximum
sentence in 20
years in
prison but
there is a
plea
agreement,
with the
sentencing set
for October 3.
Inner City
Press will
continuing to
follow this
and other Mag
Court cases.
u
On June
25 Magistrate
Judge
Lehrburger
ordered
detained a
defendant named
Martinez charged
with 33
kilograms of
cocaine, a
first name -
Eliot - and
a case number
were provided:
19-mj-5950.
But by 5 pm,
even after Judge
Lehrburger
had detained
Mr. Martinez
and set a July
8 hearing,
PACER said
"Cannot find
case
19-mj-5950."
So Inner City
Press reports:
Judge
Lehrburger
said he did
not find a
risk of
flight, but
given the
heavy weight
of coke, and
that Martinez
violated the
terms of his
probation in
New Jersey, he
would be
detained. This
came four
hours after an
appearance
before Judge
Castel of a
defendant
accused of offenses
against
children, a
defendant who
unlike
Martinez was
allowed free
on bond, to
his mother's
house in
Freehold, New
Jersey...
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