Crime
Rosemond Pleads Not Guilty, Lawyer Says Prosecutors Bribed Witnesses
- Monday, June 27, 2011 3:01 PM
NEW YORK, USA - James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, pleaded not guilty to several charges alleged drug trafficking between Los Angeles and New York and has not been given bail by the overseeing judge.
The charges include, conspiracy to distribute, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, witness tampering, obstruction of justice and falsify documents.
The DEA investigation says Rosemond led a “large-scale, bi-coastal narcotics trafficking organization that shipped cocaine” across the U.S., in the process distributing “hundreds of kilograms of cocaine since 2008 and generated millions of dollars through its narcotics sales,” the 21-page complaint reads.
“This indictment was built on the backs of witnesses that have been threatened and bribed by federal prosecutors,” his attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, told the Wall Street Journal. "I plan to expose all of it. If the government wants a fight, they’re going to get a fight,” Lichtman continued.
Prosecutors who argued there sould be no bail described the documents on Rosemond's person as he was arrested as a “fugitive’s tool kit."
It was reported that Rosemond was carrying five Blackberry phones, an iPad and two false driver’s licenses and that he had applied for a fast passport using a doctored licenses, and was trying to obtain an airplane ticket to the Bahamas for June 24.
James Rosemond was apprehended on June 21. The owner of Czar Entertainment, was taken into custody by Drug Enforcement Administration agents who got a tip that he was at the W Hotel in Union Square, law enforcement sources told NBC New York. He was arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn, and did not enter a plea.
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