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NUCLEAR SOCK PUPPET: UNSG Candidate @RafaelMGrossi Sock Puppet on X @tammiterel Was IDed by Inner City Press Now International Atomic Energy Agency Whistleblowers Tell It More - 2d in Inner City Press exclusive series: innercitypress.com/unbetrayals2...
End of day (and week) outside the courts on Centre Street #InnerCityPressDowntownNewsService Sovereign District book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXGMKN49
DDC Beat: Judge Dabney Friedrich is right now denying a request on FOIA for Epstein files, saying no showing of "imminent finality" or irreparable harm and that Confirmations can be reversed. Also: innercitypress.com/fedcourts4eo...
NYC Blast from the Past: De Blasio-era Jona Rechnitz, Sentenced to 5 Months in Lompoc, Now Says He Is Asking 2d Cir to Rehear So Asks Stay - Inner City Press story: innercitypress.com/sdnybrief16r...
Update: Despite DOJ attack on Press (for seeking to unseal its Exhibits), District of Connecticut Judge Kari A. Dooley had just granted Inner City Press intervention in the criminal case and rightly ordered the exhibits unsealed - 6th story coming : )
OK - now in 100 Centre Street APAR3 night shift. 1st defendant brought in handcuffed is charged with grand larceny - stealing a laptop in a backpack from a McDonald, also in restricted area of a deli. ADA wants $10,000 bail. Inner City Press live skeets below
FOIA answer by Federal Reserve to my lawsuit about Fed withholding all of its questions to predatory lender Enova is boilerplate, not even filed by the Board's Legal Division - this as they have not yet given public notice of OppFi's application. New low.
Update: Administrative stay DENIED re E. Jean Carroll: "order authorizing disbursement of deposited funds held in the court's registry, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion for an administrative stay is DENIED." Trump Verdict book: www.amazon.com/Trump-Trial-...
IMF Q&A: Inner City Press has asked the IMF questions about the US crypto GENIUS Act and proposed market structure bill, as well as about Malawi, etc - answers embargoed until 11 am, then online
Big Tech censorship? Why is the vlog below deemed "not suitable"? The Epoch Times case? Questioning of DOJ-CT ad hominen attacks on Press? Or the DMCA abusive filings of crypto scammers named here: innercitypress.com/dmca1hmisuse... Inner City Press won't rest: Free speech, free Press
OK - now in SDNY bail hearing on defendant charged with shooting at Individual-1, "who was already bleeding," on 162nd St and Melrose Ave in the South Bronx. Federal Defender will argue for release. Inner City Press will live skeet, thread below
Enova Protest Expansion: On Lawsuit on Federal Reserve's FOIA Denials on Enova - Grasshopper Info Requests by Inner City Press, Now Sept 10 Hearing as State AGs and Fair Finance Watch Write to Fed - story with link to lawsuit: innercitypress.com/enova2grassh...
Gold Bar Bob case fallout, on Nadine Menendez: "the Court denies defendant's request for an extension of her surrender date. The defendant shall surrender at the institution designated by the Bureau of Prisons before 2:00 pm on July 10, 2026." Story w extra coming
You knew it was coming: "NOTICE OF APPEAL from [241] Order on Motion for Disbursement of Funds." Trump Verdict book: www.amazon.com/Trump-Trial-...
E. Jean Carroll beat, it's ordered: "The Clerk is respectfully directed to disburse from CRIS the value of the principal Judgment, which amounts to $5,000,000.00" - Inner City Press is on the case(s)
Texas Shakedown? AG Ken Paxton's Office Offered Artificial Intelligence and AI Data Center Complaint List for Free on Monday -- But Now Demand for $648 and a Threat to Dismiss Public Information Request - Inner City Press story: innercitypress.com/aibeat6texas...
Update: After Miles Guo sentenced to 30 years in prison, now he has appealed: "as to Miles Guo re: [862] Notice of Appeal - Final Judgment. $605.00 Appeal Fee Waived. Attorney CJA." Inner City Press on the case(s) - including upcoming US v. Guan/Epoch Times trial
OK - now in SDNY Magistrates Court, bail fight on felon in possession of a firearm. AUSA says last time he told the judge, I'll never do it again. Then stopped in car with gun and bullets. Inner City Press will live skeet, thread below
DOGE DONE? After DOJ Moved to Vacate DOGE Barred from Treasury Access Now Judge Asks if Case Is Moot "in light of the apparent dissolution of DOGE," Reply Due July 21 @SDNYLIVE Inner City Press story: innercitypress.com/sdny3kvargas...
Battle for Transparency, Federal Reserve edition: in FOIA lawsuit against the Fed for redacting all of its questions to high cost lender Enova, trying to buy Grasshopper Bank, the Fed this afternoon finally filed its notice of appearance. Next: answer? Documents?
Defendant: The Russian Federation was my home, let me go home. Bad things I cannot even say Judge: Whew! Ms. James, I understood that last part, he would like to go home and be with his children. Defense counsel James: We ask the case be dismissed
OK - now in Cali Federal case of USA v. Yuzef Abramov (in custody) with civil case too - he's speaking: Government says, We don't care about facts because if I go out and talk - I would like my case sealed and unpublished. I am normal you can ask anybody 1/x
Update: After Carl Erik Rinsch was sentenced to 30 months in prison after conviction at trial, now he has appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal. Inner City Press will stay on the case(s)
DC golf course docket, order by Judge Ana Reyes (who last week praised USNMT as a breath of nonpartisan air - and now?) On the course, July 17 deadline for info on "build[ing] one of the Greatest Golf Courses in the world." Awaiting FIFA red card reversal comment
NYC politics/legal beat: Relatively fast trial schedule for former Eric Adams staffer Frank Carone in EDNY: motions in July, trial Aug 24. Sovereign District (case dropped against Eric Adams) book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXGMKN49
OK - now covering case of UK resident who says he was evicted from his home there and sues Cerebus Capital Management and Stephen Andrew Feinberg, "now at the Department of War." Judge says plaintiffs submitted an a.i.-hallucinated case, but withdrew it. x/1
July 4, 2026: Crowds line up by Brooklyn Bridge three hours before fireworks. Line stretches deep in the NYCHA Smith Houses. #InnerCityPressDowntownNewsService
In E. Jean Carroll v Trump, motion for more time to response to motion denied on July 4. Inner City Press on the case(s), Trump Verdict www.amazon.com/Trump-Trial-...
Speaking of freedom: US Congress' sloppy pro corporate Digital Millennium Copyright Act now allows a convicted crypto fraudster to get Inner City Press reporting censored by filing repeated bogus DMCA complaints as Harvard's Lumen looks on: innercitypress.com/bigtechcenso...