| In SDNY on Parnas 4 Judge Oetken
Resets Feb 1 As Trial Date Said No FISA
Violations
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 15 – Whether any US
government agency engaged in
wiretapping not authorized by
a court in connection with the
prosecution of Lev Parnas,
Igor Fruman, David Correia and
Andrey Kukushkin came up near
the end of a conference in the
case on December 2,
live-tweeted by Inner City
Press here.
More on Patreon, here.
Now on
April 15, amid Coronavirus,
the entire trial has been
pushed back past the election,
and into 2021: "as to Lev
Parnas (1), Igor Fruman (2),
David Correia (3), Andrey
Kukushkin (4) granting [109]
JOINT LETTER MOTION addressed
to Judge J. Paul Oetken from
AUSAs Douglas Zolkind, Nicolas
Roos, and Rebekah Donaleski
dated April 14, 2020 re:
Proposed adjournment of
pretrial schedule.
ENDORSEMENT: The parties
request to adjourn the trial
date and pretrial deadlines is
granted. Pretrial motions
shall be filed by October 5,
2020; responses by November 2,
2020; and replies by November
16, 2020.... The trial date is
hereby adjourned to February
1, 2021. The court hereby
excludes time under the Speedy
Trial Act, 18 U.s.C.
3161(h)(7)(A), through
February 1, 2021, finding that
the ends of justice outweigh
the interests of the public
and the defendants in a speedy
trial for the reasons stated
in this letter. (Signed by
Judge J. Paul Oetken on
4/15/2020)."
Back on
February 3 SDNY Judge Oetken
began the scheduled conference
by shooting down the FISA
violation arguments, citing
decisions by the Second
Circuit and his fellow SDNY
Judges Edgardo Ramos and Paul
Engelmayer. He asked the
prosecutors about the progress
of discovery.
There are
still 20 devices not
"cracked," although it is
complicated because with
subpoenas for iCloud accounts,
multiple devices' information
is revealed.
A trial
date of October 5 was set,
with another conference if
necessary penciled in for July
16 at 2:30 pm. Afterward in
front of 40 Foley Square
Parnas' lawyer Bondy snarked
at the impeachment trial as a
trial by friends; Parnas said
he's trying to get the truly
about Trump and Giuliani and
Ukraine out, but declined to
answer if he is cooperating.
Then he got into a big black
car, saying he was glad to be
back in New York. Inner City
Press Periscope video here.
Inner
City Press
said it would
be there- and
it was. The
case is US
v. Parnas, et
al.,
19-cr-00725
(Oetken).
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