Tag Archives: Southern District of New York

Broken news: DEA busts in Liberia, Plea-deals in the Southern District of New York

2nd
Jun. × ’10
By Johnny

Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York and the DEA announced a striking anti-drug trafficking operation in Liberia–one that Sirleaf, the President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s stepson played a direct role in. Defendants in an existing narco-trafficking case I wrote about last year, apparently, helped make this happen. In a world where narco-traffickers can [...]

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Broken news: Making room in the Southern District

16th
Nov. × ’09
By Johnny

Last week, we heard that five alleged 9/11 conspirators will finally face a criminal court–just a few blocks away from where the World Trade Center stood. The last time I can recall the choice of a legal venue stirring this much conversation and controversy was when the Rodney King case was moved to Simi Valley. [...]

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Broken news: How Pakistanis see the Siddiqui case

2nd
Nov. × ’09
By Johnny

I’m wary to discount what appears to be a popularly held belief in Pakistan: that Aafia Siddiqui was turned over to American officials in 2003 by Pakistani authorities. Siddiqui’s family, particularly her sister, have made this claim for some time. Though, the American press has largely ignored. After, Sec. Clinton’s visit last week, the issue [...]

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Broken news: Drones, guns and Siddiqui

29th
Oct. × ’09
By Johnny

A few bits of news regarding Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. To start, Pakistan’s President Zadari, while talking drones, guns, and India raised the issue of Siddiqui’s release during Sec. Clinton’s visit there this week. Then Harper’s runs a good summary of Siddiqui’s back story, under the (misleading) headline “The Intelligence Factory: How America makes its enemies [...]

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Job interviews: Aafia Siddiqui to represent herself?

28th
Oct. × ’09
By Johnny

A bit of confusion in the Aafia Siddiqui case. Last week, if you’ll recall, Siddiqui appeared to terminate two of her lawyers. In her handwritten note to the judge, she didn’t clarify whether she was working with her other remaining attorneys or if she was invoking the right to represent herself. Dawn Cardi, one of [...]

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Exhibits: The Scene of the Crime

22nd
Sep. × ’09
By Johnny

The government introduced an interesting exhibit in a pretrial motion in the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui: a photograph of the scene of the alleged crime. Here it is, in all of it’s scanned, black-and-white Xeroxed glory: The exhibit was tacked on to a motion opposing a Rule 15 deposition of a gentleman named Abdul [...]

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Broken News: ‘Spewing bullets at soldiers is bad…’

1st
Sep. × ’09
By Johnny

Spent some time reading a recent order in the strange case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. A federal judge declared her competent to stand trial. Dr. Siddiqui, briefly, is a Pakistani citizen and graduate of MIT (biology) and Brandeis (neuroscience) who has been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges of attempting to [...]

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