New York State Team
As a Dominican-American teen in Harlem, Vladimir Bautista thought it was commonplace to see friends arrested for using marijuana.
Carted away by officers and released days later, Bautista and his friends believed the same cycle happening in his very Black and Latino neighborhood of Hamilton Heights happened everywhere else.
His realization of the the disparities in marijuana enforcement would come years after selling the drugs and being exposed to whiter, more affluent parts of the city.
“As I got older, I started meeting friends from more affluent areas like Tribeca, (the) West Village and they were like, ‘Oh, we always smoked outside; they never arrested us,’” he said. Those people weren t burdened with criminal records stopping them from getting into certain colleges or securing affordable housing, which halted the upward mobility of many in his neighborhood.
of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, maintains that he is a man of integrity.
Mr Rufai said he would not have been appointed as a senior aide to Mr Abiodun if he was not morally upright.
This claim was contained in his filing at a U.S. court where he is battling to have the suspended bail earlier granted him restored.
The suspect has been in detention since his
arrestat John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on May 14 for pending $350,000 fraud charges instituted against him.
Although Mr Rufai was granted bail by a magistrate judge of the District Court of Eastern New York on May 21, the release order was stayed by a district judge of the District Court of Western Washington at Tacoma on May 25, following the prosecution’s appeal for a review. A district judge is superior to a magistrate judge under the American court system.
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Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, is to be arraigned on fraud charges before a United States Courthouse, in Tacoma, Washington, on June 8, 2021, PREMIUM TIMES reports.
He will appear before Theresa Fricke, a U.S. magistrate.
This development comes after a federal
grand jury ratified the charges involving conspiracy, wire fraud and “aggravated identity theft”. He allegedly used the identity theft as a scheme “to steal over $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department.”
A grand jury in the U.S. is a group of citizens empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought.