| Darden Conned NBA
Dwight Howard Now at Trial Cohen
Points to Jrue Holiday Wife
Q&A
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 2 – Calvin Darden Jr. was
on trial for defrauding NBA
player Dwight Howard to
convince him he was buying the
WNBA team the Atlanta Dream.
Inner City Press is covering
the trial. September 30 thread
Then, the
conviction of CALVIN DARDEN,
JR. for his role in defrauding
former National Basketball
Association players Dwight
Howard and Chandler Parsons
out of $8 million. The
defendant was found guilty
following an 11-day jury trial
before U.S. District Judge
Vernon S. Broderick.
Sentencing was on
April 3, 2025.
Inner City Press
went. Darden was present, then
at his request taken out by
Marshals. Judge Broderick
after argument sentenced him
to 151 months, with Georgia
requested.
On July 17
co-defendant Darryl Cohen
wrote in waiving personal
attendance in favor of
telephone presence at a July
18 hearing.
On July 18 Judge
Broderick set Cohen's trial
date: "Minute Entry for
proceedings held before Judge
Vernon S. Broderick: .
Defendant Darryl Cohen present
remotely. The trial in this
matter scheduled for September
23, 2025 is hereby adjourned
to January 2026."
On January 23
Judge Broderick issued his
initial description, of Cohen
being charged with defrauding
three players: Jrue Holiday,
Chandler Parsons, and Courtney
Lee.
On January 30, it
was said Jrue Holiday would
testify, as he was in town
with the Trailblazers to play
the Knicks. But to the end of
the day it was an SDNY
paralegal, reading into the
record Cohen's texts about
Nyjer Morgan. Then, with an
anti-ICE protest in Foley
Square, jurors were led out
onto Pearl Street and told to
turn right.
On Sunday Feb 1
the US Attorney's Office wrote
in seeking reconsideration of
restrictions on their direct
examination of Jrue Holiday,
10 page filing on Patreon here
Early on February
2, Cohen's lawyers replied
that "the Government has
argued that the players did
not know that Brian and Mark
Gilder were associated with
JBM—and in fact had already
elicited testimony from Ms.
Holiday to that effect, see,
e.g., “Q: Before you and your
husband agreed to buy the
David Womack life insurance
policy, did anyone tell you
what JBM was? A. No. Q. Did
anyone tell you who was in
charge of JBM? A. No.”—but the
Government’s exhibits show
that Mark Gilder signed JBM
documents as the JBM
representative, see, e.g.,
GX415A. If the jury believed
that Ms. Holiday did know Mark
Gilder because she had used
him" - filing on Patreon here.
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The case is USA
v. Cohen, et al., 1:23-cr-134
(Broderick)
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