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Cooperator
Charged With
Defrauding
Banks on PPP
Loans US Still
Redacts As
1st-D Sick
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 21 –
In the
Magistrates
Court of the
SDNY on May
24, 2023 a
bail or jail
hearing was
held on
defendants
SANDEEP GROVER
and SHIKHA
SEHGAL,
charged with a
scheme to
submit more
than 100
applications
containing
false
representations
to seven
financial
institutions
and
fraudulently
obtain over
$13 million in
government-backed
Paycheck
Protection
Program loans.
Presiding was
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein.
Inner City
Press
there.
Jump
cut to
September 29,
2025, when
cooperator
Shikha Sehgal
was up for
sentencing.
Both memos,
including the
US Attorney's
Office's, were
filed under
seal. Inner
City Press
went, and the
defense lawyer
tried to seal
the courtroom
while asking
for a time
served
sentence.
While that was
not granted,
both
sentencing
memos remain
sealed -
contrary to
the Second
Circuit's
recent
decision in
Lee v.
Greenwood.
Inner City
Press made a
request to
unseal and
Judge Torres
to her credit
asked the
parties to
show cause.
Late
on October 14
the US
Attorney's
Office filed,
chiding the
Press for
reporting on
what its
cooperator
said in open
court, and
submitted a
still heavily
redacted memo.
No effort to
explain the
initial
complete
withholding
was proffered.
The Office has
been chided
recently,
among others
by Judge
Caproni. But
they withhold
and seal
hoping no one
will request
unsealing,
then chiding
the Press that
does.
On
October 23
counsel to
Sandeep Grover
wrote in that
Grover is in
the hospital
"is unable to
report for his
scheduled
surrender at
Allenwood Low
FIC on October
24. We'll have
more on this.
The
case is US v.
Sehgal, et
al.,
1:24-cr-43-3
(Torres)
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