| From Valhalla Jeezy Mula Is
Moved So Court Date As Dajahn McBean Moved
Oct 13 to 30
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 13 –
Brooklyn rapper Dajahn McBean,
also known as Jeezy Mula,
seems to have supporters in
Garden City.
A document
was Fed-Exed from there with a
forged or satire court order
that he should be released, it
emerged on July 29 in a
proceeding that Inner City
Press covered, apparently
exclusively.
McBean has two cases in
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York, before SDNY Judge
Katherine Polk Failla and
Second Circuit Judge Richard
J. Sullivan, as well as an
EDNY case on which he has yet
to be presented.
On July 29
Judge Failla held a
proceeding; Inner City Press
covered it. After a routine
interchange setting a briefing
schedule of September 11 and
25 and October 2, Judge Failla
announced that a false filing
had been made.
She said a
Federal Express package had
arrived with a false signature
of Judge Sullivan, saying that
McBean was now a "supervisee."
She said Judge Sullivan is
"not amused," and asked
McBean's lawyer Steven Gary
Brill if he knew anything
about it.
No, Brill
said. AUSA Andrew Chan said he
had been made aware of it by
Judge Sullivan's chambers.
Judge Failla noted that McBean
was laughing - Inner City
Press could not see, since the
CourtCall platform only has
video for participants.
On October
13, the next proceeding was
scheduled. But on that very
day, the US Attorney's Office
wrote in to postpone it to
October 30, "because of the
defendant's move to another
facility." Judge Failla
granted it. Inner City Press
will continue to cover the
case.
Back in a
June 26 video court appearance
McBean resisted the mention of
William Valdez and did not
want the charges against him
to be read out loud.
The
proceeding was held by Judge
Richard J.
Sullivan, now
on the Second
Circuit Court
of Appeals but
still
handling a
number of
other cases
still on his
docket covered
by Inner City
Press, which
covers this
one too, live
tweeted:
Judge
Sullivan: Mr.
McBean
appeared
before me and
denied the
violations,
and asked for
a stay pending
resolution of
the state
charges. I
heard he pled
guilty to
assault and is
awaiting
sentencing.
McBean:
Excuse me your
honor, if I
already talked
about the
charges with
my lawyer, do
you have to
read them?
Judge
Sullivan: I
want to make a
record. You
interacted
with William
Valdez. Do you
admit or deny
that
allegation?
McBean:
I deny.
Judge
Sullivan:
There's also
conspiracy to
commit bank
fraud. This is
also before
Judge Failla.
McBean: I
deny. Judge
Sullivan: Also
aggravated
identity
theft. McBean:
Also denied.
Judge
Sullivan: I'll
ask for
periodic
updates, every
30 days or so.
Any questions
Mr. McBean?
McBean:
No your Honor.
Judge
Sullivan:
Hopefully this
COVID thing
will work
itself out and
we'll be back
in court in
person soon.
This
case is US v.
McBean,
17-cr-216
(Sullivan).
On May 8 McBean
was late for a video
proceeding before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Katharine Polk Failla.
And McBean
wasn't late by choice. He is
in Westchester County Jail in
Valhalla, and the video
connection was late.
When he
got on, he pleaded not guilty
to bank fraud charged in a
case filed in 2020, but which
dates back to allegations in
2018 and early 2019.
Assistant
US Attorney Andrew Chan told
Judge Failla that of four
smartphone seized in January
2019, law enforcement has only
been able to crack one of
them.
Still, both
McBean and his co-defendant
William Valdez are purchasing
1-terabyte hard drive have the
discovery material burned onto
them.
Judge Failla said she will
inform Judge Richard J.
Sullivan, now on the Second
Circuit Court of Appeals but
who is still handling a McBean
case and a number of other
cases still on his docket
covered by Inner City Press,
of the day's proceedings. That
case is 20-cr-226, US v.
McBean (Failla).
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