| Duo Charged with Laundering
Money Selling Cell Phones Into
Mexico Are Freed No Curfew
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Oct 24 – Two men were indicted
and presented on October 24 on
charges they used their
electronic device re-sale
company to laundering drug
money, in the form of cell
phones shipped to San Diego
and crossed into Mexico to
look like trade.
They were
presented before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Gary Stein
late on Thursday. Inner City
Press was there, the only
media in the SDNY Mag
Court.
On the
first defendant, Salim Saadia,
the US Attorney Office agreed
to release on $500,000 bond
along with a curfew.
Counsel for
second defendant, Ravi
Allahab, found on conditions.
While a $250,000 bond was
ordered, no curfew was
imposed. Whereupon Saadia got
the same, no curfew.
The case
is USA v. Saadia, et al.,
24-cr-612 (Preska / Stein)
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