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\n <\/a><\/p>\nFteja, Krasniqi and Kupa were not required to enter pleas during their initial court appearances. Messages seeking comment were left for their lawyers.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officials have described Gogic as a \u201cmajor drug trafficker\u201d and said he operated on a \u201cmammoth scale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gogic fought professionally in Germany from 2001 to 2012, compiling a 21-4-2 record, according to boxing website Sport & Note. He was listed as 6-foot-5 (1.96 meters) and weighed in at anywhere from 227 pounds (103 kilograms) to 250 pounds (113 kilograms).<\/p>\n
In a criminal complaint in Brooklyn federal court, an FBI agent wrote that the bribery scheme unfolded between Thursday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
According to the court papers, Fteja already knew a juror described in the complaint as \u201cJohn Doe #1\u201d and called him multiple times on his cellphone Thursday before the juror agreed to meet him on Staten Island.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, which took place Thursday, Fteja told the juror that associates in the Bronx were willing to pay him to return a not guilty verdict, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
Two days later, Fteja told the juror during a second meeting that they were willing to pay him between $50,000 and $100,000 to corrupt the trial, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, investigators secured several recorded conversations of the defendants planning the juror corruption plot as the men spoke in Albanian and English. The court papers contained some quotes from the recorded conversations.<\/p>\n
At his trial, Gogic is charged with violating and conspiring to violate the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act. If convicted, he faces a sentence of 10 years to life in prison. <\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Gogic and his co-conspirators worked with the ships\u2019 crew members to smuggle cocaine in shipping containers, hoisting loads of the drug from speedboats that approached the cargo vessels along their route, including near ports in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.<\/p>\n
Three shipments were intercepted by U.S. law enforcement agents, prosecutors said, including 1,437 kilograms (3,168 pounds) of cocaine aboard the MSC Carlotta at the Port of New York and New Jersey in February 2019 and 17,956 kilograms (39,586 pounds) of cocaine \u2014 with a street value of over $1 billion \u2014 aboard the MSC Gayane at the Port of Philadelphia in June 2019.<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia bust was one of the largest cocaine seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Three men were arrested Monday for allegedly offering to pay $100,000 in cash to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,131236,10427,49,48,25302,122025,131239,2841,131234,131238,131235,131240,131233,20009,7738,129031,52542,131237,3430,167,82,26564,2845],"class_list":["post-289947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-bribery","tag-brooklyn","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-corruption","tag-drug-crimes","tag-francisco-navarro","tag-general-news","tag-goran-gogic-brooklyn","tag-joan-azrack","tag-john-marzulli","tag-joseph-corozzo","tag-juries","tag-law-enforcement","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-montenegro","tag-mustafa-fteja","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-sports","tag-trials","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}