| Citing
McGonigal
Discovery Is
Sought From Ex
FBI Rossini
But 5th
Asserted So In
Camera
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 13 –
The indictment
of ex-FBI
agent Charles
McGonigal
in U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York was
echoed on
February 13 in
a discovery
teleconference
in a
proceeding for
an order under
28 USC Sec.
1782 to
conduct
discovery.
At
issue are
documents as
to which
another former
FBI agent,
Mark Rossini,
is asserted
the Fifth
Amendment
privilege
against self
incrimination.
While
he faces
unrelated
charges in the
District of
Puerto Rico,
he resisted
some
deposition
questions, and
is withholding
documents.
SDNY
Magistrate
Judge Robert
W. Lehrburger
asked
pointedly if
this assertion
meant that
anyone who did
business with
a Russian
oligarch, here
Oleg
Deripaksa,
could invoke
the Fifth
Amendment.
Counsel for
Rossini said
maybe he got
too far over
his skis.
Judge
Lehburger
agreed - but
also agreed to
review the
documents at
issue in
camera.
Rossini's
lawyer said he
has a trial in
60 Centre
Street and can
walk the
documents over
to
Chambers.
The
case also
seeks
discovery from
Aviran Azari,
who's guilty
plea Inner
City Press covered,
as it will his
upcoming (long
delayed)
sentencing.
This case is
In Re:
Application of
Forensic News
LLC and Scott
Stedman,
22-mc-229
(Carter /
Lehrburger)
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