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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

vs.

ABIDEMI AJAYI,

Defendant.

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Docket No. 12 CR 190

Chicago, Illinois

June 27, 2013

10:08 a.m.

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS - Status

BEFORE THE HONORABLE REBECCA R. PALLMEYER

APPEARANCES:

For the Plaintiff: HON. ZACHARY T. FARDON

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

BY: MS. YASMIN N BEST

219 South Dearborn, 5th Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60604

For the Defendant: LAW OFFICES OF DAMON M. CHERONIS

BY: MR. DAMON M. CHERONIS

53 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 1750

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Court Reporter: FRANCES WARD, CSR, RPR, FCRR

Official Court Reporter

219 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 2118

Chicago, Illinois 60604

(312) 435-5561

frances_ward@ilnd.uscourts.gov

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THE CLERK: 12 CR 190, United States versus Abidemi

Ajayi for status.

MS. BEST: Good morning, your Honor.

Yasmin Best on behalf of the United States.

THE COURT: Good morning, Ms. Best.

MR. CHERONIS: Good morning, your Honor.

Damen Cheronis on behalf of Mr. Ajayi.

THE COURT: Good morning.

Okay. We are here for status, correct?

MR. CHERONIS: Yes.

MS. BEST: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: What's our status?

MR. CHERONIS: Well, the Court graciously granted

my trial continuance. It's set for, I believe, December 2nd.

And it appears that we will be going to trial that day.

THE COURT: Okay. Well, in that case, I guess I

just need to set disclosure dates.

Can I suggest, Ms. Best, that the government make

its disclosures by, say, October 30th?

MS. BEST: That shouldn't be a problem, your Honor.

THE COURT: All right. And then any final motions,

Mr. Cheronis, I am going to ask you to file a week later. So

by November 8th.

We will set a pretrial conference on November 13th,

which is a Wednesday, if that's all right.

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MR. CHERONIS: Your Honor, I will be on trial in

front of Judge Lee that day for sure.

THE COURT: Is the following Wednesday all right?

MR. CHERONIS: That would be fine.

THE COURT: The 20th. Is that all right for you,

Ms. Best?

MS. BEST: That will work for the government.

And, your Honor, that motion deadline, is that for

all motions in limine?

THE COURT: Yes. I will just say all the trial

motions by November 8th. And then we will have you in on the

20th for a final pretrial conference.

MS. BEST: Your Honor, there is one other matter,

which I failed -- I, for some reason, thought I had filed

this.

The government wants to move for an order to

disclose tax returns and tax information related to the

defendant and a business that he has. I have tendered a

draft of the motion and the order to the defense counsel. I

don't know if he has any objection.

MR. CHERONIS: The government had mentioned this to

me some time ago. I have no objection.

MS. BEST: Essentially just based on our

conversations, I anticipate that information about the

defendant and his company will be at issue at trial. So to

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be able to have those tax returns well in advance of trial,

the government would move for an order disclosing those.

If I can hand up to your Honor a draft of both the

motion and the order?

THE COURT: Sure.

(Documents tendered.)

THE COURT: And you will share these with the

defendant.

MS. BEST: Absolutely, your Honor.

THE COURT: All right. That's fine. Thank you.

MR. CHERONIS: Thank you.

MS. BEST: Thank you, your Honor.

The government would move to exclude time until the

pretrial conference date in the interest of justice and to

allow for the continued disclosure of discovery information

as well as the filing of motions.

THE COURT: Any objection?

MR. CHERONIS: I have no objection. If they want

to move it all the way up to the trial date, that's fine, as

well.

THE COURT: We will exclude time through the trial

date of December 2nd.

The final pretrial conference on the 20th, we are

going to make that at 10:00 o'clock.

MR. CHERONIS: Thank you.

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MS. BEST: Thank you, your Honor.

THE COURT: Thank you.

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I certify that the foregoing is a correct transcript from the

record of proceedings in the above-entitled matter.

/s/ Frances Ward_________________________September 17, 2014.

Official Court Reporter

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