| Jrue Holiday
Bought Life Insurance of Sick
Man Via Cohen Who Confirms He
Will Not Testify
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 24 – 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, on
Patreon here.
On February 2,
Inner City Press live tweeted
as Jrue Holiday took the
stand, thread here.
Cohen told him to
buy the life insurance policy
of a "terminally ill" man -
but Cohen took money and Jrue
Holiday fired him and sued
Morgan Stanley.
On February 7 the
US Attorney's Office opposed
Cohen's request to call
Special Agent Melissa Baccari
to testify about the scope of
the Government's
investigation." The US
Attorney's Office says the
request is improper and in any
event can't be made ex parte.
On February 17 in
the trial a Morgan Stanley
witness was on the stand,
calling his firm conservative
contrary to its actions in the
subprime meltdown. Afterward
Cohen's lawyers complained to
Judge Broderick that the US is
subpoenaing his witnesses
telling them they have to
travel to New York and speak
to Melissa Baccari.
On February 24
Judge Broderick allocuted
Cohen, who confirmed he will
not testify, before videos of
basketball training at his
home court and gym with shown,
with the witness narrating
himself using a "massage gun."
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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