| After Japanese Yakuza
Member Pled to Life in Jail for
Nuclear Trafficking Co-D Gets 8
Years
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 13 – DOJ announced that
TAKESHI EBISAWA pled guilty
today in Manhattan federal
court to conspiring to traffic
nuclear materials, including
uranium and weapons-grade
plutonium, from Burma to other
countries, as well as to
international narcotics
trafficking and weapons
charges.
Inner City Press was there,
the only media present as the
plea agreement was read out by
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Colleen
McMahon.
Ebisawa,
speaking through a Japanese
interpreter, said he is 60
years old; he agreed not to
appeal any sentence below the
stipulated guideline - which
is life imprisonment.
On January 31
co-defendant Somphop
Singhasiri also pled guilty.
On September 18
counsel to Ebisawa wrote in
asking for a delay in
sentencing and it was granted,
to January 21, 2026.
On January 13,
co-defendant Singhasiri got
eight years, lower than some
expected.
The case is
USA v. Ebisawa, 1:22-cr-256
(McMahon)
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