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Cardak Pled to 60 Months & $350K As
BofA Wanted $10M Now Bernardi 5 Years
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 24 – Fraudster Robert
Bernardi pled guilty on August
17, 2022 to securities fraud,
bank fraud and wire fraud -
but not aggravated identity
theft - in connection with
bankrupt email security
company GigaMedia Access
Corporation.
Inner City
Press live tweeted his change
of plea, here
and below. Immediately after
the plea, his co-defendant
Nihat Cardak had a pre-trial
proceeding. They were going
forward, they said - until
they didn't.
The
proceedings were before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul G. Gardephe. He ran
through the elements; the AUSA
asked that he specify the the
wire fraud involved a bank.
Inner City Press understands
the bank that asked for the
$10 million deposit to be Bank
of America. He
pled to 121 months.
On January 24,
2023, Bernardi got five years
(60 months) - "ROBERT
BERNARDI, the founder and
former Chief Executive Officer
of the Virginia-based email
security company GigaMedia
Access Corporation, d/b/a
GigaTrust (“GigaTrust”), was
sentenced to five years in
prison by United States
District Judge Paul G.
Gardephe."
JOn January
12, 2023, co-defendant Cardak
came before Judge Gardephe to
take a plea, and a deal. Inner
City Press was again there,
and is publishing the 60 month
plea agreement on Patreon here.
Cardak's
sentencing date is May 16 at 3
pm.
The August
2022 thread:
Judge Gardephe :
it's securities fraud, bank
fraud, and wire fraud, 30 year
max. I have a copy of the plea
agreement, 121 months or less,
you can't appeal.
Bernardi:
Beginning in 2016 we began to
use false GigaTrust financial
statements. A bank demanded a
$10 million deposit. I used
wires to lie.
Sentencing is Dec
15, 2 pm.
Update: Same
case, Bernardi's co-defendants
Nihat Cardak and Sunil Chandra
will be proceeding to trial,
at least for now.
Chandra has
been permitted to phone in to
this proceeding. Does that
mean we can / could?
The case is US v.
Bernardi, et al., 21-cr-616
(Gardephe)
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