In
SDNY Illiterate Manaf Accused
of Haqqani Network Links Faces
July 22 Trial So Motions
By Matthew
Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 6 –
Accusing
of trafficking
heroin to support
the Haqqani
network in
Afghanistan, the
US Attorney's
Office on April 4,
2019 asked that
defendant
Haji Abdul Satar
Abdul Manaf be
admonished to tell
his family members
in Afghanistan not
to threaten witnesses.
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern District of
New York Judge
Paul Crotty was
happy to do
so, and set a
control date
30 days out about
discovery.
But an
incongruity
arose. It was
said that
Manaf can
neither read nor
write, yet the
prosecutor
referred to
hundreds of text
messages as
being part of
the discovery.
Afterward,
Inner City Press
the only media
present for
the proceeding
asked her to
explain. She
politely
declined.
Judge Crotty
meanwhile
asked Manaf's
lawyer in
what language
she speaks
with him - Urdu - then
asked, You
don't speak
Pashtun?
Jump
cut to July 5,
2024, when
Manaf's white
shoe counsel
filed a motion
in limine seeking
to exclude his
2012
placement on
the OFAC list and
certain
testimony of
Dr. Tracia Bacon
on the Taliban
and Haqqani
network.
Trial
is set to
begin July 22,
2024
The
case is US v.
Manaf,
18-cr-762
(Rakoff)
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