| After NYCHA
Bribery Take Down First Trial Is
of Joy Harris In Shadow of
Snyder Decision
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Oct 9 – 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
On September 16,
NYCHA defendant Charles Starks
moved to dismiss, noting that
the indictment provided
"almost no detail on... the
timing" - and citing the
Supreme Court's Snyder v. US
decision.
On October 9,
NYCHA defendant Joy Harris was
on trial, the first trial. On
the stand was an immunized
witness, Mr. Singh, who said
he twice paid bribed to Joy
Harris. He described her
saying, I need something;
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said for
the record, rubbing his index
finger and thumb together.
On cross it
emerged that the second
payment was after Joy Harris
signed the certificate of
service allowing the witness'
company DK Bangla to be paid.
Might that be a gratuity,
under current precedent? Judge
Kaplan admonished the defense
lawyer to hold for closing
arguments.
Watch this site.
A case is US v.
Starks, 24-cr-126 (Rochon)
Watch this
site - and these feeds: X
and X
for subscribers.
And Substack here
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