| Habeeb Audu Spoofed Bank
Customer Accounts in NC Now Asks To Change
Lawyers No Bail
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 23 – Habeeb Audu is
charged with bank fraud,
including spoofing customers'
phone numbers in order to
steal their money. The targets
included, among others, a
North Carolina-based
healthcare
company.
On
September 21, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Katherine Polk Failla held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge Failla told
Audu's lawyer Patrick Brackley
that he'd had other cases in
the District and didn't need
to hear certain things again.
The next conference was set
for December 23 and time
excluded until then.
On December 23,
the plot thickened. Audu was
asking to drop Brackley. It
emerged that he'd thought he
would be released on bail and
hasn't been.
Brackley, who
diplomatically called his
relationship with Audu
"spirited," said he would
welcome Audu speaking with
another lawyer, a Mr. Diaz.
Audu initially said he didn't
want that, either, he would
find his own lawyer. After
some conferring, he will talk
with Diaz. The government is
opposing bail.
The case is US v.
Audu, 19-cr-462 (Failla)
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