A new shadow also thickens and throws the case of Michael Valentino Teofrasto Cartur, the 28 -year -old Italian cryptocurrency investor Italian seized and tortured for three weeks in a luxurious house in the Nolita district, also on the mayor of New York.
After the arrest of John Woeltz and William Duplessie, the two operators in the sector who wanted to extort the password of his Bitcoin portfolio, two detectives of the New York Police also ended up in the sights of the investigation. This is Robert Cordero, a veteran with 20 years of service, of which the last four in the escort of the first citizen Eric Adams, and Raymond J. Low, who investigates the cases of drugs in Manhattan.
According to the reconstruction of the New York Times, Cordero took the victim at the airport on May 6 and brought it back to that house, where he was held prisoner until his escape last week. Both agents dealt with the safety of the residence, but it is not clear whether they were employed directly or if they worked for a private company.
According to the operating manual of the NY Police Department, agents are not allowed to work for security companies without the approval of the same department. It is not yet clear, moreover, if the two detectives were present during the criminal activity. For now the two policemen have been assigned to reduced shifts, with office duties, pending further investigations: a measure that appears light compared to the story.
The mayor’s office said he was “troubled” from the accusations: “Each municipal employee is required to respect the law, including our agents, both in service and out of service.
We are troubled by these accusations and, as soon as we learned about it, the agents were placed on duty with reduced hours. The investigation is in progress, “said a spokesperson. But the curriculum of the two detectives is not immaculate. Cordero has been the subject of several complaints that accuse him of abuse of authority and use of physical strength. In a 2014 complaint, a man accused him, together with seven other agents, of having beaten him, searched with a naked body and of having subtracted him money: the case was resolved in 2016. Low, who joined the police department on the same day of Cordero, was mentioned in nine complaints dating back to 2008, including one who accused him of having released a false official declaration and having used a dangerous grip Next.
Their involvement arouses new questions about Adams’s administrative efficiency, a former policeman who ended up in the center of various scandals, including one for corruption archived only thanks to Donald Trump’s (not disinterested) intervention. And it relaunches the concerns for the opaque world of Crypto Traders such as Woeltz and Duplessie, which spent up to 100 thousand dollars per evening at The Box, a popular erotic place in the Lower East Side.