| ATM Skimmers Mass Presented In Case
Ranging To Romania Now SDNY Judge Swain
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 9 – A dozen men in
shackles charged with ATM
skimming came into the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
courtroom of Judge Laura
Taylor Swain on January 9.
They had interpreters in
French and Romanian, and now a
coordinating discovery
attorney, Emma G. Greenwood.
Of the
eight who are in detention,
six wore beige and two were in
blue. One had a lawyer who
arrived late - a lawyer Inner
City Press recently saw
practicing across the East
River in the EDNY - but for
whom another CJA lawyer filled
in. It was all very genteel,
and all pushed forward to
April 23 with time excluded.
Inner City Press has been
covering this case since Thanksgiving.
Then on December
5 three more co-defendants
were presented in the Mag
Court, again with Inner City
Press the only media present.
They included Cristian Almanu
and Madlin Alexandru Anca,
represented by Justin Foy.
They were added to the January
9 conference before Judge
Swain, and detained upon
consent. Inner City Press
tweeted at Romania's Mission
to the UN for comment, but
received none. So much for
consular notice. We'll have
more on this.
On November 27 it
was Constantinescu "a/k/a
'Sobo' shipped a credit card
point-of-sale terminal used to
fashion skimming devices from
a shipping facility in or
around Mt. Pocono,
Pennsylvania to Veracruz,
Mexico, on or about June 26,
2018."
Hanes-Calugaru for his part
"installed skimming devices on
an ATM in or around
Canterbury, Connecticut on or
about January 7 and 14, 2017."
Diaconu "used
fraudulent debit cards to
withdraw cash from victim
accountholders' bank accounts
using ATMs in or around
Chattanooga and Ooltewah,
Tennessee or about about June
2 and 3,
2018."
All three were
detained. Two will have a bail
hearing on December 6 before
SDNY Judge Laura T. Swain who
has already denied bond in the
case to Nikolaos Limberatos
a/k/a Nicu Limberto, on the
grounds that the US would not
seek his extradition from
Greece if he managed to flee
there.
Judge
Swain did, however, grant
co-defendant Andrew
Eliopoulos' request to travel
to Pennsylvania for
Thanksgiving.
All three
defendants are slated to
appear before Judge Swain on
January 9, 2020. The case is US
v. Constantinescu, et al.,
19-cr-651 (Swain).
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