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Carjacker Ellison Trial on MCC Bribes Had
Nunez Guilty Now US Wants 41 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 8 – Daniel Hernandez a/k/a
Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced
to 24 months of total
imprisonment in a proceeding live
tweeted by Inner City
Press before U.S. District
Court Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer.
Now
Hernandez' co-defendant and
car-jacker Anthony Ellison
a/k/a Harv, already serving a
long sentence, has been
indicted again for a smuggle
conspiracy while in the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center.
Inner City Press
went to the detention of
release hearings of
Griffith-McKnight, lead
defendant Perry Joyner and
another inmate, Valerio, and
live tweeted it here
and here
(podcast here)
The case
was assigned to Judge Andrew
L. Carter.
Jump cut to
October 26 when this was
docketed: "Minute Entry for
proceedings held before Judge
Andrew L. Carter,
Jr:Arraignment as to Anthony
Ellison (6) Count 1s,3s and
Starlin Nunez (11) Count 1s,2s
held on 10/19/2023.
Defendants arraigned and enter
pleas of NOT GUILTY to the
Superseding Indictment. Jury
Trial & Selection set for
11/20/23 at 10 a.m."
On November 28,
Inner City Press attended the
trial, opening and then the
prosecutor's critique. Counsel
for Starlin Nunez referred to
the cooperating witnesses as
rats who made a deal with the
Devil.
Later,
outside the presence of the
jury, the AUSA noted this, and
argued that to compare the
gravity of the cooperators'
admitted crimes with those the
defendants are being tried for
is akin to nullification.
Judge Carter said he would
address things as they arose,
that invoking the Devil might
be inappropriate but the use
of the word rat, at least in
closing argument, probably was
not.
On November 29,
cooperator Alamo was on the
stand, describing how he was
moved to Tier 9 and hid the
cellphone he bought in the
wall behind defendant Starlin
Nunez' bed. We said everyone
used CashApp, and some
cigarettes were broken up
during boofing...
On November 30,
Alamo was cross examined about
how much he fights and smokes
in jail, from Fort Dix to FDC
in Philadelphia, and why he
cooperated (faced a 20 year
minimum). Video of the empty
MCC was shown again, unable to
be muted, at least initially.
The question "did you ask your
father's advice on drug deals"
was objected to, and
withdrawn.
On December 4, on
cross was a member of the BOP
Special Operations Response
Team which search the MCC for
a gun, and phones. But he
could not remember when phones
had been found, while
testifying that not all BOP
facilities have phones in
them. With him off the stand,
talk turned to the past acts
of witness Jose Reynoso, and
the defense's duties under
Rules 608 and 609.
On December 5,
Reynoso was on the stand,
being asked to explain his
CashApp transfers to people he
said he didn't know. Musta
been Junior who told me to do
it, he said repeatedly. There
were test payments of $1, and
a variety of Cash Tag names
including ones with dollar
signs in them. These were not
shown on the video monitor
facing the courtroom gallery.
On December 6,
another cooperator was on the
stand, a man with many names.
Nunez' lawyer demanded he
answer yes or no, ICE was
letting him stay for this
testimony? Yes. Indicted for
drug trafficking in Texas in
2000? Only found out about it
in 2018. Jurors looked on.
On December 7
cooperators Taveras was on the
stand describing how "Chino"
got in trouble after "that man
died" -- seeming, from the
timing, to be a reference to
Jeffrey Epstein -- as he was
perceived as ratting out the
guards involved. But it was
the Bloods who tried to get to
Chino - he gave Tavares a
phone and told him NOT to
delete the text messages, as
he managed to escape to
another part of the prison.
The name used: Arepa.
On December 8,
Taveras was on re-direct. The
AUSA pointedly asked if the
death of "the man" in 2019 had
anything to do with the gun.
Taveras said no. He disclosed
another drug deal, paying "the
Chinese" and then the Mexican
cartels, and an arrest in
Massachusetts. He explained
his knowledge of 5K1.1 letters
and that he wants time served.
On December 11 a
witness Kearse in a green
prison uniform testified about
the relative price of K2 leaf
or paper in MDC and MCC - and
how Joyner brought him both,
and oxtail. It emerged that
due to the stopping of
visitors during COVID, the
guards became the only way to
get contraband.
On December 12,
the jury was shown photographs
of SIM cards and phone charges
founds in Ellison's can of
coffee creamer - other
contraband could not be
attributed, because it was
found in a closet no one could
provide who had been in last.
On December 13,
the jury heard how CashApp
payments by inmates' family
members coincided with Officer
Joyner's tours on 7 North. The
mother of inmate Kearse, who
testified about the oxtail
meals he got in the MCC, sent
Joyner $800....
Then the trial
went into a
publicly-unexplained hiatus; a
lawyer not directly involved
in the case told Inner City
Press it was health related.
On December 15 it was said
that Juror 12 felt sick then,
COVID confirmed. Then one of
the lawyers, and a court
reporter. Nothing more in the
docket until this, on December
26: "ORDER as to Anthony
Ellison, Starlin Nunez. The
trial will resume at 9:30 a.m.
on Wednesday, January 3, 2024.
The parties should report to
the courtroom at 9:15 am (Jury
Trial set for 1/3/2024 at
09:30 AM before Judge Andrew
L. Carter Jr).
On January 3,
Inner City Press was there
when the AUSA delivered the
rebuttal summation, arguing
that the cooperators' interest
was to tell the truth, about
Deuce heads and spicy
mackerel, and that the money
transfers were not as argued
sports betting, because the
payments flowed to Joyner and
not the other way.
On January 5,
guilty verdicts - and then the
clean up: "ORDER as to Anthony
Ellison, Starlin Nunez. IT IS
HEREBY ORDERED the New York
Police Department (NYPD) and
United States Marshals Service
(USMS) permit counsel and
their paralegal, Renee Foggia,
to enter Pearl Street with
their vehicle, 2021 BMW Wagon
X3, Registration No. D16SMC,
and temporarily park outside
the side entrance 40 Foley
Square in order to retrieve
and remove trial boxes from
the courthouse. (Signed by
Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr on
1/5/2024)(jw)."
On April 12,
Mario Feliciano was sentenced
to five months to begin on
July 11, anywhere "with the
exception of the
MDC-Brooklyn."
On November 8 on
Nunez, the US wrote in asking
for 41 months. Sentencing is
set for November 14.
The case is
US
v. Joyner, et al., 21-cr-673,
(Carter). More on Patreon here.
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