| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Defendants
Freed on $50000 Bond Inner City
Press Was 1st
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 6 – For days Inner City
Press had heard from its
sources there would be a
"takedown" on February 6, each
SDNY Magistrate Judge would
handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at
6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City
Press tweeted it, first to X
subscribers with the spoiler
alert: the expectation was
that each of the current or
former NYCHA employees would
be released on bond the same
day.
And then hours
later at 9:39 am the
prosecutors announced it.
Media rushed around reporting
it. Inner City Press had
it first, and after discretely
waiting, published it first.
Then this thread of
presentments, here:
Lawyer asks Inner
City Press: Why weren't they
allowed to self-surrender?
Another asks why they couldn't
/ didn't go over the
Complaints with them at 26
Federal Plaza... Since no
presentments yet here, heading
to another of the 6
courtrooms.
Now in big
courtrrom being used by Chief
Magistrate Judge, NYCHA 70
presentment of Vernon
Chambers, 24-mj-405. Arrested
6:55 this morning [an hour
after Inner City Press broke
the news of the NYCHA70 mass
arrest. Judge: You are
charged in 2 counts
AUSA: We
agree to release on $50,000
[unsecured] bond. Defense: Can
he travel to NJ as well?
Judge: Yes. No contact with.
NYCHA contractors without the
presence of counsel.
Adjourned.
The rest of the
#NYCHA70 cases here are moving
down to the regular
Magistrates courtroom 5A. As
will Inner City Press. Thread
will continue
Now in
Courtroom on 17, Orlando Pardo
of #NYCHA70 with a former AUSA
as his appointed lawyer, also
released today on $50,000
unsecured bond.
Now in
Courtroom on 18, Brett Owens
of #NYCHA70 also released
today on $50,000 unsecured
bond. Another marvels at
taking up all these
agents'time today.
Now in
Courtroom on 9 Charles Starks,
57, of #NYCHA70 with a
Big Law CJA lawyer argues for
no bond, release on own
recognisance. He's accused of
$7000 in bribes over 3 years.
He's already fired.
"This is not Bernie Madoff."
Judge: $50,000 bond; wife can
co-sign
A case is US v.
Starks, et al., 24-mj-505 (Stein)
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