| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Torres
Pleads Guilty as Starks Cites
Snyder Decision
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
July 25 – For days Inner City
Press had heard from its
sources there would be a
"takedown" on February 6, each
SDNY Magistrate Judge would
handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at
6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City
Press tweeted it, first to X
subscribers with the spoiler
alert: the expectation was
that each of the current or
former NYCHA employees would
be released on bond the same
day.
And then hours
later at 9:39 am the
prosecutors announced it.
Media rushed around reporting
it. Inner City Press had
it first, and after discretely
waiting, published it first.
Then this thread of
presentments, here
Now in
Courtroom on 9 Charles Starks,
57, of NYCHA70 with a
Big Law CJA lawyer argues for
no bond, release on own
recognisance. He's accused of
$7000 in bribes over 3 years.
He's already fired.
"This is not Bernie Madoff."
Judge: $50,000 bond; wife can
co-sign
On March 5, this
defendant's case was indicted
and assigned to District Judge
Jennifer L. Rochon.
On July 18, Judge
Rochon held a status
conference with Starks; Inner
City Press was there. Starks'
lawyer said he might be moving
to dismiss under the Supreme
Court's decision on June 2024
in US v. Snyder. Judge Rochon
gave him until September 16 to
make that motion. We will be
covering it - as it has
implications for the other
NYCHA cases, many of which are
already pled out.
Including
on July 25, when before
Magistrate Judge Valerie
Figueredo Segundo Torres pled
guilty and waive appeal rights
to any sentence 24 months or
below. Sentencing was set for
November 12 before the
assigned District Judge,
Richard M. Berman.
The case is US v.
Torres 24-cr-445 (Berman /
Figueredo)
Watch this site.
The other case is
US v. Starks, 24-cr-126
(Rochon)
Watch this
site - and these feeds: X
and X
for subscribers.
And Substack here
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