| OneCoin Konstantin Is Freed
After Secret Sentencing Unlike Other
Cooperators
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 14 -- 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.
Inner City
Press which covered the trial
including Konstantin Ignatov's
testimony then on December 6,
2019 reported
from its South Florida sources
that despite ostensibly being
on home incarceration Scott
was "living the high life in
Florida including being
spotted out to dinner with
body guards... Meanwhile
Gilbert Armenta, fellow money
launderer, is out and
registering even more
companies, the same as he did
for his OneCoin money
laundering bank in Georgia" -
the country, not the US
state.
And on
March 13, Konstantin Ignatov
was released from Federal
prison. Photo here.
Notable is that even his
sentencing proceeding was not
announced on PACER, unlike
other cooperators who get time
served, such as on March 13
cooperator Ceruti, Inner City
Press story here.
So who
decides which cooperators'
sentencings are announced, and
which are hidden? Rapper
Tekashi #6ix9ine / Daniel
Hernandez' sentencing before
SDNY Judge Paul A. Engelmayer
was announced, and Inner City
Press live
tweeted it. Konstantin
Ignatov's happened in secret.
Who does this benefit? And why
does the US Attorney's Office
Press Office not answer basic
questions, or provide exhibits
even when ordered (albeit
orally) by a Judge, here
Judge Engelmayer? We'll have
more on this.
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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