| Elendu Charged With South
Korea Law Firm Scam Pled Now a Co-D Seeks to
Rep Himself
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 21 – Ikechukwu Elendu is
charged with defrauding, among
others, a South Korean law
firm and a Sint Maarten health
services
company.
On October
9, 2020 U.S. District Judge
for the Southern District of
New York Denise L. Cote held a
change of counsel proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Outgoing counsel
promised to held the incoming,
Anthony Cecutti. Judge Cote
asked if he will be free for
the scheduled trial on June
28, 2021.
He said yes.
Jump cut to
August 6, 2021. There was no
trial, amid COVID. And now
Elendu was pleading guilty,
allocuting to setting up
accounts at Chase and Fremont
Bank, FDIC insured.
Jump cut again to
late 2023: co-defendant Ndukwe
Anyaogu was sentenced in the
case to 33 months in prison
and a payment of $10,000 to
Lingxin Technology.
Jump cut to
September 21, 2026 when for
co-defendant Ahaiwe counsel
wrote it saying is is only
stand-by, that the defendant
wants to represent himself.
Judge Cote endorsed that if
that is the case she will
conduct the necessary
allocutions...
The case is USA
v. Uko, et al., 1:20-cr-179
(Cote)
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