| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Pardo Pled
Guilty Now Gets Two Months US
Wanted Four
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Dec 16 – 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
recognizance. 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 in June in US
v. Snyder, 603
U.S. __
(2024).
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. At
least one other proposed plea
is stalled, with another
citing Snyder in sentencing
memo.
On August 8
before District Judge Jessica
G.L. Clarke, Orlando Pardo
pled guilty and waive appeal
rights to any sentence 14
months or below. Sentencing
was set for December 16 at 11
am. before the assigned
District Judge, Richard M.
Berman.
On December 2 the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for a four month
sentence.
On December 16,
Pardo was sentenced to two
months, "preferably at Fort
Dix."
The case is US v.
Pardo, 24-cr-471 (Clarke)
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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