Venezuela
Ex Spy Chief
Carvajal June
Trial But CIPA
Issues Loom
and Jail Calls
Still Out
There
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 8 – Venezuela's
former spy
chief Hugo
Armando
Carvajal
Barrios a/k/a
El Pollo is in
US custody in
a
narco-trafficking
conspiracy
case begun in
2011, after a
long
extradition
fight in
Spain.
Carvajal was
arraigned by
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Stuart
D. Aaron on
July 20. Inner
City Press thread:
more on
Substack here
On
December 12,
2023 Inner
City Press was
there, thread
Jump
cut to October
8, 2024 -
Judge
Hellerstein
inquired into
discovery
(some jail
calls are
still to be
produced) and
set a trial
date: June 23,
2025. Pollo's
new lawyer,
however, is
not yet CIPA
certified...
More
on Substack here
Inner
City Press is
on the case,
which is US v.
Carvajal
Barrios, et
al., 11-cr-205
(Hellerstein)
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