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Wirecard Trial of Weigand Hargreaves Cited
OneCoin Now July 23
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 29 – The trial of US v.
Weigand and Akhavan began
before Judge Jed S. Rakoff in
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on March 1. Inner City
Press, which has been covering
the case including its
Wirecard aspects, live tweeted
Day 1, here
and below. Now on March 9 it
has connected back up to the
OneCoin crypto fraud - and the
US has explained Hargreaves'
phones, in an 8-page filing.
Jump cut to June
15, 2022 when Hargreaves was
to be sentenced. But that day,
the US wrote it and asked for
another six month adjournment,
to December 14, 2022.
Another major
jump, to October 31, 2023 -
when Hargreaves' sentencing
was pushed into 2024: "The
sentencing control date in
this matter is hereby
ADJOURNED to March 6, 2024 at
3pm. (Signed by Judge
Katherine Polk Failla on
10/31/23)." The government's
request was "in light of the
defendant's ongoing
cooperation."
On March 5, 2024
the US Attorney's Office wrote
to Judge Failla, "The
defendant's cooperation is
likely complete... adjourn the
sentencing control date by
approximately 90 days. The
Government may also submit a
related case letter []prior to
sentencing."
Judge Failla
endorsed it, adjourning
Hargreaves' sentencing to July
10 at 3 pm.
Who has
Hargreaves been cooperating
against?
On May 22,
Hargreaves case was reassigned
from Judge Failla to Judge
Rakoff, who presided over
Weigand's trial: "NOTICE OF
CASE REASSIGNMENT as to Oliver
Hargreaves, to Judge Jed S.
Rakoff. Judge Katherine Polk
Failla no longer assigned to
the case."
On Mau 29, Judge
Rakoff (re) set a sentencing
date: "NOTICE OF HEARING as to
Oliver Hargreaves: A
sentencing will occur on July
23 at 4:30pm in courtroom 14B
o before Judge Jed S. Rakoff."
This case is US
v. Hargreaves, 18-cr-746
(Rakoff) Watch this site.
On March 2,
evidence began - and witnesses
with immunity deals.
(Tassone's immunity deal is
now on Patreon, here).
Inner City Press tweeted in
Day 2, here.
Day Four
began with news, tweeted
by Inner City Press, that a
juror had tested positive for
COVID, and ended with cooperator
Oliver Hargreaves on the
stand.
Day Five,
things took off. The remaining
13 jurors all tested negative
and when Hargreaves testified,
first about fake website for
golf equipment and facial
cream, he soon turned to the
meat: Wirecard and Jan
Marsalek, live tweeted thread
below. Inner City Press has
asked the US Attorney's Office
to make available the
exhibits, as is done in other
cases. So far, nothing. Some
live tweets from the thread, here
and below.
On March 9,
world's collided. Hargreaves
on cross examination admitted
he and his boss Gary Murphy
had dealt with OneCoin
crypto-Ponzi money launderer
Gilbert Armenta, whom Inner
City Press has covered,
including exclusive reporting
on Armenta's ongoing
businesses. Inner City Press
retweeted from the cross here:
In #Wirecard
/ @Eaze trial of
US v. Weigand, cooperator
Oliver Hargreaves just
admitted that his boss Gary
Murphy was working with
Gilbert Amenta, on whom Inner
City Press has exclusively
reported in connection with
#OneCoin, here.
Defense
lawyer: You knew Armenta's
money was illegal, correct?
Hargreaves: Yes.
Defense: And you
knew about OneCoin, correct?
Hargreaves: Yes. Defense: And
a connection between Gary
Murphy and Armenta, right?
Hargreaves: Yes.
Defense lawyer:
And you knew OneCoin was a
Ponzi, right?
AUSA: Objection [! why?]
Judge Rakoff:
It's his opinion. Hargreaves:
Yes. OneCoin was a crypto
currency fraud.
Defense lawyer:
You were getting involved with
Armenta to get involved in
laundering illegal gambling
money, right? Hargreaves: I
wanted to do well for my
company.
Defense lawyer:
Armenta had a bank in Georgia,
right?
Hargreaves: Yes,
I think so.
To be
continued.
From March 8:
Hargreaves is reading out in
court his message with Jan
Marsalek of Wirecard.
Hargreaves quotes
Marsalek saying, stop sending
to this ProtonMail, send it to
"EUprocessing."
Hargreaves wrote, EU
[Processing] equals Ruben"
[Weigand]
AUSA: Who is the
deleted account?
Hargreaves: Can I
see the page before? It's
Ray's.
Assistant US
Attorney: For which acquiring
banks did you prepare
fraudulent application packs?
Hargreaves:
Wirecard...
AUSA: Who
responds to your chat?
Hargreaves: Ruben
Weigand
Defense:
Objection, to the extent that
the document is cut off
Judge Rakoff:
Overruled.
AUSA: Where
is Wirecard headquartered?
Hargreaves: Munich, Germany...
AUSA: What is a
"card not present
transaction"? Hargreaves: A
transaction not in a brick and
mortar shop.
AUSA: Was
the fact that Eaze
transactions were intended to
be run through these Hot
Robots accounts disclosed
anywhere?
Hargreaves: No.
AUSA: In this Ali Baba chat,
Ray says, So darling what will
be submitted, right?
Hargreaves: Yes. And Reuben
says, it's fine
In the courtroom
on the 26th floor, Oliver
Hargreaves is sitting without
a mask in a plexiglass box,
glasses on, light suit, not
much hair. He's saying that
the transactions were
fraudulently run through as
for "facial care products."
Watch this
site.
Earlier on
March 8, a request to exclude
information from the devices
Hargreaves had when he was
arrested and began cooperating
has been filed, including "On
Sunday, March 7, 2021, the
government produced a subset
of the iPad material that it
represented to be the unique
material from the iPad, which
the defense continues to
review. That same day, the
government also produced
additional 3500 material for
Mr. Hargreaves that indicated
the phone may have been
[REDACTIONS]
"It is now
abundantly clear that those
communications almost
certainly do not provide a
full record of the
interactions between Mr.
Hargreaves and others
implicated in the scheme
because the government did not
take any steps to preserve Mr.
Hargreaves’ communications at
the time, nor did it disclose
that failure to preserve until
now." Full letter on Patreon here.
From Day 4: US v
Weigand & Akhavan, it's
Day 4 - Judge Rakoff says,
"That's why we have alternate
jurors... We'll space them
further apart today."
The case is US
v. Weigand,
20-cr-188
(Rakoff).
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