Six days before trial, the SDNY won a significant victory. The judge who had replaced Judge Griesa ruled that Nikolai’s evidence would be admissible. This was a crucial development. If this evidence hadn’t been allowed, the government wouldn’t have been able to draw an uninterrupted line from the $230 million crime in Russia to assets to New York, and they almost certainly would have lost the case. Prevezon had done everything they could to prevent this evidence from being admitted. But now that it had been, they weren’t left with much.
