Tag Archives: U.S. Attorney

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: Court to Hear Oral Arguments in the Chucky Taylor Appeal

19th
Mar. × ’10
By Johnny

Mark your calendars. On May 11th, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the Chucky Taylor criminal case.

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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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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: May the blood of [unintelligible] be directly on your [unintelligible, possible head or hands]

16th
Sep. × ’09
By Johnny

The U.S. Attorney here in New York filed responses to a handful of motions in the Dr. Aafia Siddiqui case yesterday. Much of the memorandum concerns procedural and jurisdictional issues–as well as the ongoing issue of Dr. Siddiqui facing strip searches at the Metropolitan Detention Center each time she meets with her lawyers–but the government’s [...]

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Redacted: Cartels and the New West African Connect

7th
Sep. × ’09
By Johnny

This took a few days. PACER was down for the Southern District of New York, so I had to wait to get the indictment of Jesus Eduardo Valencia-Arbelaez who was extradited to New York City last week. The thumbnail view is this: “the Organization” a Colombian-Venezuelan cocaine interest wanted to open a tran-shipment corridor to Europe [...]

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