OK - back in US v Huawei trial, agent on the stand testifying about the lead up to the theft of T-Mobile robot /part. Inner City Press is covering to case today a book (DOJ FOIA request & request for exhibits are out, UNGA coming) and will live tweet, thread below

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/2097670265844969948

AUSA: I'm going to ask you about a series of people, and you put them up on that board, as being with Huawei in China or Huawei or Futurewei in the US. OK?
Agent: OK.
AUSA: Adam Zhong, where was he based?
Agent: It says Bellevue, Seattle but it means Washington

OK - back in US v Huawei trial. Witness Mr. Martin worked at CISCO then Futurewei. Inner City Press is covering the trial matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/futurewei-sp… toward a book, and will live tweet, thread below x.com/innercitypress… AUSA: When you visited Huawei in China, was security tight?
Martin: Yes. No cell phone were allowed into their White House building. My laptop, they put electrical tape over the camera.
AUSA: What else struck you?
Martin: Every desk has a safe, nothing on table

OK - now back in US v Huawei, FBI agent on stand about Zhu Yubin's notebook seized at Fujitsu booth in Chicago. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/2097670265844969948

AUSA: Do you see these business cards for Zhu Yubin, both Huawei and "Weihua"?
FBI Agent: I do.
AUSA: And this visa application - who is the sponsor or contact?
FBI Agent: Huo Da Wei at . The contact is at Chicago hotelfutuewei.com

OK - now before SDNY Magistrate judge, Federal Defender says her client would pay $2200 restitution for breaking table - but cannot plead guilty because "his body was controlled by electrical devices." As only mrdia here, Inner City Press will live tweet below 1/x Judge: He declined mental health treatment. He left the district and refused to give his address.
Federal Defender: I have gotten his address in Virginia today. I don't want to put it on the record, but I have emailed it.
Judge: I don't think he's competent

OK- now at habeas corpus petition of Portillo, brought shackles by ICE officers in black Ts from Orange County Jail, before SDNY Judge Arun Subramanian. No lawyer w/ Portillo at defense table. Inner City Press, which covers/FOIAs Live Nation, will live tweet below All rise!
Judge Subramanian: Good morning, Mr. Portillo. I will begin by asking the Government: what assurance did ICE have that if he is removed to Mexico, they will not send him to Honduras?
AUSA: Policy, no assurance in this particular case.

OK - now in US v Huawei, continued cross of US witness Parham Beheshti. Inner City Press is covering the trial and will tweet as live as it can, thread below
Defense: You were an American working in Iran, it was illegal and you lied about it?
Beheshti: I signed it

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/2098037717367984260

Huawei's lawyer: And the Government never prosecuted you-
Assistant US Attorney: Objection!
Judge Donnelly: Sustained.
Huawei's lawyer: You wrote lies on your security clearance form, correct?
Beheshti: I'm not the one who filled it out

OK - US v Huawei opening arguments - Inner City Press is covering the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/sealedconfli… and another in EDNY (Sealed v Sealed, seeking counsel to appeal courtlistener.com/docket/7359110…) and live tweets below, toward book 1/x x.com/innercitypress…
Judge Donnelly: Jurors, we are ready to being the trial. Do not read media about it, do not speak to each other about it, do no post to social media... Is the US ready?
Assistant US Attorney Taylor Stout: Theft. Lies. Cover-ups. For 20 years Huawei victimized US

OK - now at appeal in US v William Zhao, NYC doctor charged with CSAM but ordered free on $2 million bond. Inner City Press has filed for the detention memo to be docketed (complaint here ) and will live tweet, thread below patreon.com/MatthewRussell… 2:33 pm
Zhao is at defense table in MDC tan jail uniform, with Jacob Kaplan on his left, Teny Geragos on his right. His parents are in the gallery, the only civilians but for Inner City Press.
The AUSAs, with laptop, summon defense counsel to hall to talk

OK, now Day 2 of 2 of semi-sealed hearing in source code prosecution US v Ho, Inner City Press opposed the closure bid by DOJ and Headlands LLC and partially won in 13-page Order, is covering the case patreon.com/MatthewRussell… and will live tweet, thread below x.com/innercitypress… [Programming note: there was a strange one-lawyer a side sidebar in the courtroom - afterward Inner City Press rode the elevator down with Government team member who US agreed would not remain in the courtroom to hear Ho's expert]
Ho's lawyer: Let's turn to Atoms

OK - now brought out of SDNY Mag court holding cell, to defense table with Teny Geragos and Jacob Kaplan and seemingly his parents in here in the gallery where Inner City Press is the only media, it's William Zhao. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below AUSA Maxwell: Mr. Zhao was arrested this morning at 7:45 am. We have an FBI agent with us here at the Government's table.
Magistrate Judge Cave: You are charged with receiving CSAM on your cell phone, at your residence in Manhattan, including pre-pubescent minors

OK - now white collar criminal with slew of lawyers comes into @SDNYLIVE Magistrates Court, "self-surrender." He is Jesus Luis Morell, "a senior executive at aerospace HEICO on 3 counts of securities fraud / insider trading." Inner City Press will live tweet below Magistrate Judge Moses: Mr. Morell, do you speak English?
Morell: Yes, your Honor.
Judge: You have hired your own lawyer [Mr. Levine] The Grand Jury charges you with securities fraud, 10(b)(5). Conditions of release?

Artificial Intelligence Beat - now at Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. et al v. Perplexity AI, Inc. - Inner City Press is covering the Perplexity (and other AI cases) innercitypress.com/sdny190bfailla… and will live tweet, thread below x.com/innercitypress… Judge Cave: Let's refer to some terms by synonyms, if it's designated confidential. I thought the issue was the scraping-
Britannica lawyer: It's to measure the value. If they targeted Britannica, that would go to wilfullness

OK - now defamation case by crypto Binance v WSJ for reporting on its dealings with Iran. WSJ lawyer says the facts are agreed. Judge Engelmayer says, What about defamation by implication? Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below Judge Engelmeyer: What if there was no subheadline here, and it just said, Binance fired staff who flagged the use of Binance to funnel money to Iran. If you stop there-
WSJ lawyer: You can't stop at the headline

OK - now at hearing on SDNY's subpoenas for reports on non-use of Qatar-gifted jet as AF1 coming back from Turkey - hearing before Judge Subramanian, who also has Live Nations (& Inner City Press' FOIA case ) - will live tweet, thread below courtlistener.com/docket/7340054… In the courtroom at defense table is long time SDNY AUSA Michael Maimin, who is prosecutor on cases going back to 1996...
Waiting for Judge Subramanian. Drum roll...

OK - now USA v. Nicolas Maduro court proceeding in SDNY, to settle on trial date (June 2027?) etc - Inner City Press covered it yesterday night and will live tweet, thread below patreon.com/MatthewRussell… 12:01 pm - Maduro still not brought in. A folding chair is added to the defense table; the US Marshals will be seated further behind the defendants than usual. Drum roll

OK - now at USA v. Arrabaca, fire in front of 26 Federal Plaza yesterday, in big courtroom 23B. Arrabaca has 2 Federal Defenders but still no complaint. Inner City Press is covering the case(s) and will live tweet, thread below 4:48 pm
Arrabaca is brought out of the holding cell by three US Marshals. He is short, wearing eyeglasses. Look over at us reporters sitting in the jury box. There are four ADAs.
4:51 pm
All rise!

OK - now hearing in Coe v. Todd Blanche on a Temporary Restraining Order and provisional class certification of families of transgender youth seeking to block turn over of health info to DOJ/subpoena to NYU Langone. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below Judge Failla: This case was reassigned to me 25 and a half hours ago. Before Judge Vargas, I hear the production of documents was extended. How about tomorrow by noon - acceptable?
Nixon Peabody: No objection from NYU.
Judge: How do I say Stangio?
Just so

OK - now at Goldman Sachs v. Leissner et al - including Kimora Lee Simmons Leissner - she has two lawyers at the front table. Inner City Press covered the EDNY Jho Low / Leissner case (book
and will live tweet, thread belowamazon.com/gp/product/B09… All rise!
Sullivan & Cromwell for Goldman Sachs: This was a grossly inadequate discovery production, about their claimed investment in Celsius through her Bank of America account
Judge: They only gave you material from the public docket?
S&C: Nothing of substance

OK - now in trial for murder in Brazil of gallerist Brent Sikkema, defense closing argument then US rebuttal, deliberations. Inner City Press has covered the case since arrest of Daniel Sikkema and will live tweet, thread below matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/art-world-hi… Defense: Brent descended into drug use - that is why Danny wanted to get a divorce. Jane Pearl said yesterday, it was drugs and Lucas' wellfare. In Grindr, Danny had produced an ad there- DX 701
AUSA Grosbard: Objection!
Judge Ramos: Overruled.

OK - now at presser by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch and Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI New York Field Office James Barnacle "to brief the media on recent cases" - Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below 1:03 pm
Commish Tisch: I want to thank Jay Clayton... The extremist who moves to real-world danger, those cases demand more than one office. The World Cup and 250th Anniversary of our country is coming. We partner, as we'll discuss

OK - now in trial for murder in Brazil of gallerist Brent Sikkema, Daniel's divorce lawyer on the stand. Inner City Press has covered the case since arrest of Daniel Sikkema and will live tweet, thread below matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/art-world-hi… Daniel's lawyer: Did you ask Brent Sikkema for funds for Daniel to buy a car to try to drive Uber?
Daniel's divorce lawyer: Yes. The TLC said it would be all electric cars going forward... Daniel told me that Brent had told him not to work but be available to him