| SDNY Announces Brand
Management Indictment of Iconix CEO While
Exhibits Withheld
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 5 –
While a "brand" company
impacted by a December 5
announcements by SDNY US
Attorney's Office which itself
manages information seemingly
based on brand, the Office has
still not provided its exhibits
on OneCoin and, so far,
a current Bronx murder trial,
below.
From the
announcement: "the unsealing
of an Indictment in Manhattan
federal court charging NEIL
COLE, the former chief
executive officer of Iconix
Brand Group, Inc. (“Iconix”),
a publicly traded brand
management company, with
engaging in a scheme to
fraudulently inflate Iconix’s
revenue and earnings per share
and obstruct justice.
The case is assigned to U.S.
District Judge Edgardo
Ramos.
Mr. Berman also announced
today the unsealing of charges
against Seth Horowitz, the
former chief operating officer
of Iconix, who pled guilty on
December 2, 2019, and is
cooperating with the
Government.
COLE is expected to be
presented and arraigned later
today before U.S. Magistrate
Judge Barbara C. Moses in
Manhattan federal court."
Inner City Press is not sure
if she uses the "C" - but is
most concerned with the
OneCoin exhibits, for which it
has had to file a FOIA
request, still not fulfilled.
The Bronx
trial for which Inner City
Press has also asked for
exhibits: on the second day of
2014 in The Bronx, New York
Shaquille Malcolm was
repeatedly shot and killed in
a building in the Allerton
section.
In arraignments
that followed, Inner City
Press reported
that the death penalty was on
the table, including as to a
co-defendant who has since
pled guilty to a superseding
indictment, Gyancarlos
Espinal.
On December 4 the
two remaining co-defendants
Arius Hopkins and Theryn Jones
a/k/a Old Man Ty were on trial
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
Testifying against them was
now cooperating co-defendant
Alexander Melendez. He
described using a .22 to shoot
and kill Shaquille Malcolm,
with orders and firepower
given by the two mean with six
lawyers sitting at the defense
table.
The
upcoming issue is the use of a
rap or hip-hop song as
evidence. Arius Hopkins'
lawyer Glenn A. Garber had
asked that prospective jurors
be asked if they were familiar
with "the genre of music
called gansta
rap."
On December 4,
Assistant US Attorney Danielle
R. Sassoon argued that
questions about the song - a
copy of which does not appear
to have been uploaded by the
US Attorney's Office unlike
with GUMMO and Billy in the #6ix9ine
trial also known as US
v. Jones - should be
limited.
Such songs
and lyrics are also being used
by the US Attorney's Office in
another SDNY case Inner City
Press has covered,
US v. Darrell Lawrence, et
al., 19-cr-761 (Oetken).
It is an emerging and
accelerating First (and Fifth)
Amendment issue, leading Inner
City Press to raise folk-type
song SDNY questions.
Judge Kaplan reserved judgment
on what he will allow on
cross-examination. This case
is US v. Jones, et al.,17-cr-791
(Kaplan).
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