| Ilori
Is On Trial For
PPP Fraud So 5
IDs Shown In US
Closing As
Previous
Conviction Cited
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 28– Adedayo Ilori is on
trial for a scheme to obtain
more than $7 million in
Paycheck Protection Program
(PPP) and Economic Injury
Disaster Loans -- and also for
identity theft, including for
using a bank card in the name
of a victim to purchase items
as a Manhattan coffee shop.
On October
26, 2022, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Mary Kay
Vyskocil was presiding over
the trial, while videos of the
coffee shop purchases were
played for the jury. Inner
City Press was there.
The
manager of the coffeeshop
identified Ilori waiting in
line, then inserting the bank
card; he was asked about
Square records. Ilori's
Criminal Justice Act lawyer
asked about "non cold brew
draft with an extra single;"
he paused his cross
examination to confer with his
client, who gesticulated and
pointed at the screen.
Behind him
were two U.S. Marshals. Ilori
is in detention, also on
violation of supervised
release in another identity
theft case before SDNY Judge
Lewis J. Liman.
On October 27, a
Special Agent who executed the
search warrant on Ilori's Long
Island City apartment was on
the stand. He testified how he
observed Ilori drive away in a
white Mercedes. Upstairs in
apartment 1805, co-defendant
Chris Recamier answered the
door. He was told he would be
arrested, and that giving his
real name would make
processing faster.
In the apartment,
along with an air mattress,
were a shredder and a scanner,
and a bunch of IRS documents.
On October 28,
the agent was still on the
stand, authenticating files
taken off an iMac, then
reading text messages about
false IDs for loans. The
government's direct
examination ran to 5 pm, so
Judge Vyskocil told the jurors
to return Monday at 9:30 for
the cross examination, and
then summations.
She told
them not to read anything
about the case, which is
standard, then when they left
asked Ilori if he wished to
stay for the charging
conference. He said he did.
Others,
"non parties," were asked to
leave the courtoom as Judge
Vykocil said that a charging
conference, like a bench
conference, she would normally
hold in the robing room.
That's not the practice
through the courthouse - as
simple two examples, under
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein here
and here
under Judge Alison J. Nathan,
now on the 2d Circuit -
but Inner City Press left, and
reported out this story.
On October 31,
the government's summation by
the newest of the three AUSAs
on the case used sides and
charts to run through the
charges, and seven reasons the
jury is to find Ilori guilty,
including Ilori's conviction
for a similar fraud. Another
chart cites his moving of
money from Coinbase to Capital
One accounts.
The trial
continues - but only for a bit
more.
This case is US
v. Ilori, 21-cr-746 (Vyskocil)
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