The former MSNBC daytime anchor may have eaten a slice of humble pie during jury selection for his fraud case on Monday.
Instead, Watson was on the other side of the East River, sitting as a defendant in Brooklyn Federal Court, awaiting the start of jury selection in a multi-million dollar fraud case that could leave him facing as many as 37 years in prison.
“The fact that Carlos Watson and his company have been indicted is not the only difference between them and their peer founders and companies,” Sullivan said in court papers. “The others are white and white-owned. Carlos Watson is a Black man and Ozy Media was majority-owned by people of color.
“The defendant Carlos Watson and Rao were in a room together,” the indictment says of what it describes as a fraudulent call. “Rao used a voice alteration app he had downloaded to his cellular telephone to mask his voice on the call, and impersonated .” “This is fraud,” the indictment quotes the CFO telling Watson in an email. “This is fraud. This is forging someone’s signature with the intent of getting an advance from a publicly traded bank.”Watson will now be going on trial on charges of securities fraud, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. In front of Magistrate Marcia Henry on Monday, the limit of Ozy’s reach appeared to be clear when not one of the prospective jurors indicated that they had heard of Watson.
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