| On Venezuela Sanctions Plea of Coro
Inner City Press Won Unsealing Now Orsini
Time Served
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Transcript
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, July 25–
Victor Mones Coro was charged
with brokering private
passenger air travel for
Tareck Zaidan El Aissami
Maddah - and like co-defendant
Michols Orsini Quintero was
given his discovery late by
the US, mixed with other DHS
info.
On March
31, 2021 Coro's lawyer posted
to the docket a notice "to the
public and counsel of record
that two sealed submissions...
were made by defendant Victor
Mones Coro." Inner City Press
immediately filed opposition,
docketed on April 1, quoted
below.
The US
Attorney's Office for the SDNY
was told to respond by April
9. When they did, they said
this:
"In what appears
to have been a coordinated
effort, on the same day,
Matthew Russell Lee of the
Inner City Press contacted the
Court by email and requested
the unsealing of several
sealed
documents."
Pending
further reply on April 12,
this has been submitted for
docketing: "Inner City Press
routinely files requests to
unseal in this District, and
other Districts - including as
cited in its March 31 request,
on UN corruption and US v.
Weigand, order here.
"Those requests,
like this one, were not
'coordinated' with anyone.
Ascribing ulterior motives to
press requests for
transparency is a hallmark of
other regimes, like the one
the US Attorney's Office
claims to be so concerned
about in this prosecution."
We'll have
more on this.
From Inner City
Press' March 31 request:
"These are clearly judicial
documents. And there is a
public interest in US
sanctions, on Venezuela and
elsewhere, and their
enforcement and violation and
all filings in such
cases. Mr.
Coro's counsel this evening
filed that "Notice is hereby
given to the public.. that two
sealed submissions, dated
March 8, 2021 and March 22,
2021, were made by the
defendant Victor Mones Coro."
Docket No. 194.
While appreciating the notice,
no legal argument justifying
withholding in full, rather
than redacting where
absolutely necessary was
provided. Inner City Press
hereby opposes the sealing,
and requests
unsealing.
Covering this for Inner City
Press, I have noted how many
filings are listed as sealed:
see, e.g., Docket 120
(10/13/20), and further back.
Compare, Judge Jed S. Rakoff's
request ruling on Inner City
Press' request in US v.
Weigand, viewable here."
In the interest
of increased transparency, here
is the October 28 transcript,
on Inner City Press'
DocumentCloud, here.
Jump cut to July
25, 2024, when after many
delays, Orsini won a time
served sentence, X
OK - now at
long-delayed sentencing of
Orsini... Judge Hellerstein: I
impose a time served sentence,
more than 650 days in harsh
conditions. 3 years of
supervised release
This case is US
v. Orsini Quintero, 19-cr-144
(Hellerstein)
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