| Unsealing
Won of Financials of Cruciani as Avenatti
and Correia Now FD Appeals
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 28 – Ricardo
Cruciani has been Federally
indicted for using his
position as a doctor for
fifteen years to sexually
abuse patients, including
causing them to travel across
state lines.
He had properties
and three cars but has applied
for and gotten publicly paid
Federal Defender legal
representation.
For weeks,
Inner City Press has sought to
get unsealed Cruciani's
financial affidavit. On
February 15 this was ordered,
but with at least a four week
delay and the possibility of
the Federal Defenders
appealing for Cruciani.
Inner City
Press has previously won
Criminal Justice Act affidavit
unsealing in the cases of
Michael Avenatti and David
Correia, in the Lev Parnas
case.
But on February
15 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge John P. Cronan was told,
by the Federal Defenders, that
given how busy they are in the
SDNY Magistrates Court,
unsealing the financial
affidavits they get signed how
hinder justice.
Inner City Press,
present for the in-person oral
argument, wondered whether the
"penalty of perjury" warning
on CJA-23 affidavit might
similarly impact the desire
for publicly funded
counsel.
Even with
the oral order to unseal,
Cruciani and the US Attorney's
Office have four weeks to
confer before a redacted copy
is filed -- unless the Federal
Defenders appeal for Cruciani.
Judge Cronan had not until
February 15 docketed Inner
City Press two filings, which
was done much earlier in the
Correia and Avenatti unsealed,
the latter reported on AP,
NYLJ
and ultimately in the National
Law Journal.
Apparently the
letters went into his
chambers' junk email folder.
But should the press have to
have or pay for ECF access in
order to be heard?
On February 28,
the Federal Defenders using
public money appealed to keep
Cruciani's financial
affidavit, to get publicly
funded counsel, sealed. Should
the Press and public have to
spend their own money to
participate in this appeal?
Watch this site. The
case is US v. Cruciani,
21-cr-636 (Cronan)
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