The full transcript refers to a plea agreement letter dated May 6, 2019, but there was no discussion of any cooperation, if any that Woney may have to give in connection with the plea.
THE COURT: I have before me a letter dated May 6,2019, from the US Attorney to your attorney containing a plea agreement. Have you read this letter?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
THE COURT: And did you sign it on the last page?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
THE COURT: Before you signed it, did you discuss it with your attorney?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
THE COURT: Did he explain to you all of its terms and conditions?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
THE COURT: Apart from what is contained in this letter, have any promises been made to you in order to get you to plead guilty?
THE DEFENDANT: No.
THE COURT: In reviewing the plea agreement, I note that it contains an analysis of how part of our law of sentencing, known as the Sentencing Guidelines, may impact on any prison term in your case. Based on that analysis, the agreement states that the guidelines sentencing range can be expected to be from 120 to 135 months. Do you understand that?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
THE COURT: Do you understand that the sentencing judge is not bound by the calculation in the letter and that she will be free to do her own calculation, which may result in a guideline range that is different from the one in the letter? (Defendant conferring with his counsel)
THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
Also, anything other than the third thing he admitted to involved Corinna?
THE DEFENDANT: Between September 2018 and October 20, 2018, I recruited a woman who was a couple months younger than 18 years old to perform commercial sex acts in the Bronx and elsewhere.
Secondly, in November 2017, I recruited and transported a woman from the Bronx to New Jersey to engage in commercial sex acts.
Third, in 2017, I used the internet from the Bronx to advertise commercial sex acts by women I worked with.
Fourth, in 2015, I was convicted of a felony robbery in New York. In September 2018, I possessed ammunition in the Bronx.
Fifth, I knew that each of these acts were illegal.
THE COURT: Okay. And I believe you just said this, but I ask this question anyway. You were reading from a statement, and that's entirely appropriate, and I'm sure that you and Mr. Weinstein wanted to make sure that the statements were exact and correct. I ask you again: You really did those things you just told me about?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
So the first item doesn't apply to Corinna as they knew each other before September 2018, and she was not younger than 18 in September 2018.
It's possible the second one could apply to Corinna, but seems unlikely since she disappeared mid- to late- September 2017, and, while we've heard of text messages between them in September 2017, we haven't anything about any communications he had with her after September 2017.
The third item might be referring to ads that Corinna was in.
The fourth item does not appear to concern Corinna given the dates.
Anyone have any thoughts about the timing of this and what, if anything, that we've heard no developments about Corinna yet might mean with respect to info they may have gotten from Woney?
And.....I don't really believe there's any link here, but, for those that don't believe in coincidences, this plea agreement comes just a couple months before and out of the same US Attorney's office as another sex trafficking case that folks may have seen and read about the past week.