| Charged With
Crypto Laundering Colombian Drug
Funds Max Cartier Asks Bail US
Opposes
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Dec 5 – Charged with
laundering money for Colombian
drug cartel using the crypto
currency Tether, Maximilien De
Hoop Cartier was arrested in
Miami in February
2024.
On July 18,
Cartier was brought by
Marshals before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Mary Kay Vyskocil for a change
of attorney proceeding. Inner
City Press was there.
Cartier on
July 1 had written to Judge
Vyskocil, "Now at 57 years old
I find myself with my entire
life savings seized unabling
me to hire a private
attorney."
Judge Vyskocil asked the CJA
attorney on duty if he was
able to take the case.
"Eager," was the response.
But Cartier later
sent two handwritten letters
to Judge Vyskocil, asking to
present his own bail package,
and for another CJA lawyer -
he names one - knowledgeable
about crypto. On November 18,
Judge Vyskocil set a hearing
for December 5 at 2 pm.
On
December 4 Judge Vyskocil
docketed that the proceeding
is December 11 with a status
letter and US position on bail
before then.
On December 5,
new defense counsel wrote in
that the US Attorney's Office
opposes release on bond; that
Office wrote in asking to push
back any status conference for
90 days.
The
complaint said "Cartier is
purportedly a direct
descendant of Louis-Francois
Cartier, the master
jewler...and purports to be a
philanthropist, entrepreneur,
art collector and
industrialist and investor in
beverages and 'fintech' as
well as a singer under the
name 'Max
Cartier.'"
Online it's said
"In 2007 he founded Patagonia,
which produces fine wine,
premium beer and also some of
the best water in the world."
And his music, or photos of
concerts, are on his
now-dormant Instagram.
The case is
US v. Cartier, 24-cr-133
(Vyskocil)
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