{"id":42531,"date":"2025-11-17T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42531\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:07:08","slug":"boxer-goran-gogics-nyc-trial-thrown-into-chaos-as-3-goons-offer-juror-100k-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42531\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Goran Gogic&#8217;s NYC trial thrown into chaos as 3 goons offer juror $100K bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A knuckleheaded trio tried to bribe a federal juror $100,000 to find former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic not guilty in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/01\/goran-gogic-charged-after-feds-seize-1-billion-of-cocaine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">upcoming cocaine trafficking trial<\/a>, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged crooks \u2014 Mustaga Fteja, Valmir Krasniqi and Afrim Kupa \u2014 will appear in Brooklyn federal court Monday afternoon after their arrests on an obstruction of justice charge, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A stunning court complaint details a fast-breaking FBI investigation that unfolded starting Nov. 13, when Fteja called the unnamed juror and offered money to render an acquittal.<\/p>\n<p>Goran Gogic during a boxing match. Bongarts\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The feds tapped the trio\u2019s phones and recorded a conversation, in English and Albanian, among them inside a Staten Island home, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow they gonna pay [John Doe #1], who\u2019s gonna, give the money?\u201d Fteja said, the complaint states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCash,\u201d Kupa responded.<\/p>\n<p>Gogic is a former heavyweight boxer. Bongarts\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Gogic was arrested for alleged cocaine trafficking.  AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re gonna give it to me? How much?\u201d Fteja said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne, one hundred thousand,\u201d Kupa confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Gogic had been scheduled to stand trial on accusations he trafficked 22 tons of cocaine worth more than $1 billion from Colombia to Europe through the US.<\/p>\n<p>A judge dismissed the jury in the trial Monday morning after the bribery accusations arose, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The trial will reconvene in 30 days with a new, anonymous jury, the officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A knuckleheaded trio tried to bribe a federal juror $100,000 to find former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14476,24453,24454,24455,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bribery","tag-cocaine","tag-drug-trade","tag-kickboxing","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}