| In OneCoin Case Sentencing
of Konstantin Ignatov Was Pushed To July 8 Now
No Letters
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 7 -- For money laundering
for scam crypto currency
OneCoin, lawyer Mark Scott was
convicted by a jury after
testimony by Konstantin
Ignatov and others but was
allowed to remain free on bail
pending sentencing.
On April
7, Konstantin Ignatov's
sentencing was adjourned, to
July 8. But now on July 7, at
least in the public docket,
there are no sentencing
letters. Will it be adjourned
again? And what about
notifying victims?
On July 6 in
another (insider trading)
case, Inner City Press
published an unredacted copy
of a sentencing submission
which revealed the sweet deal
the SDNY prosecutors had given
one John Dodelande, story here,
photos here.
Inner City Press is monitoring
the docket(s). Watch this
site.
(Second
comparative note: in
Singapore, they move more
quickly -- Fok Fook Seng was
charged in April 2020, with
Lim Yoong Fok, and now fined
$72,000. What will Konstantin
Ignatov's deal and sentence
be?)
Sebastian Greenwood has now
been charged, see below. But
his court date was pushed
back, Inner City Press first
reported: "ORDER as to Karl
Sebastian Greenwood: The
conference scheduled for June
3, 2020, is hereby RESCHEDULED
to occur as a videoconference
using the CourtCall platform
on June 24, 2020 (Signed by
Judge Edgardo Ramos on
6/5/2020)."
Now it's
pushed back into August: "MEMO
ENDORSEMENT as to Karl
Sebastian Greenwood (5) on
[293] LETTER MOTION addressed
to Judge Edgardo Ramos from
Bruce Barket dated June 17,
2020 re: Request to adjourn
conference. ENDORSEMENT: The
June 24 pretrial conference is
adjourned to August 5, 2020,
at 9:00 AM. (Signed by Judge
Edgardo Ramos on 6/19/2020)
(ap)."
The basis of the
request? "On the
government’s consent, we are
writing to request an
adjournment of next week’s
court conference from June 24,
2020 to August 5, 2020. The
reason for this request is
that while we are still
navigating the voluminous and
complex discovery, our ability
to confer with our client
remains substantially limited.
Under normal circumstances we
would have been able to meet
with our client for several
hours per day, several days
per week, to discuss and
prepare the case as necessary.
But under current restrictions
we are limited to a single
thirty-minute phone call per
week. The requested
adjournment will thus account
for these restrictions, and it
will allow us sufficient time
to communicate with Mr.
Greenwood before our next
appearance in Court." When is
justice delayed, justice
denied? Watch this site.
In a
parallel world on March 12 the
US Attorney's Office belatedly
moved to revoke Scott's bail,
citing Scott's continue use of
OneCoin derived funds and,
explicitly, Inner City Press'
"blog
post" about Scott
dining out in Florida while on
home incarceration.
Assistant
US Attorney Chris Demase said
they have first read out it in
the blog post and couldn't
believe it - but that it was
proved by GPS information from
Scott's location monitoring
ankle bracelet.
Mark
Scott's Florida based lawyer
David M. Garvin sputtered over
the telephone from Florida,
with Scott next to him, that
the dinner had involved
lawyers. He tried to explain
Scott's use of OneCoin funds.
But Scott was ordered to turn
himself in to the US Bureau of
Prisons on March 13. And on
that day, Konstantin Ignatov
was released. Strange
symmetry.
Another of his
lawyers, when Inner City Press
left the courtroom, was
arranging to pay for a
transcript, perhaps to appeal.
Inner
City Press on
March 13 asked
the US
Attorney's
Office Press
Office for its
filings not
yet in the
public
docket.
Here
is Inner City Press' Periscope
video upon leaving the
courthouse. The case is US v.
Scott, 17-cr-630
(Ramos).
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