Jorge Barrera
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197 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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This is Jorge Barrera from CBC. We spoke yesterday and he told me to call him today to set up... Yeah, no, he's not interested in talking to anybody. He doesn't know anything. He doesn't know anything about what?
Jorge, are you listening? I am listening.
Okay, but there's a lot of victims here. So, we try another route and call one of his lawyers.
Yeah, but I'm trying, but he doesn't want to sit down and explain how the lab continually had wrong prenatal paternity test results. Like this is over like a decade.
But it's not my prerogative to... But it's your dad and we're about to air stuff about this. Yep. At the time, this lawyer, one of Acumetrix lawyers, is Harvey Tenenbaum's son, Sheldon Tenenbaum.
I know, but maybe you can help convince him that it's in his best interest to sit down and talk to us about this.
Because we're talking probably a decade of lives completely upended by these wrong prenatal paternity tests. And we've spoken to experts who say that the instances of false positives that Viagra delivered... almost impossible.
Same with false negatives and that the amount of blood that's being drawn in these home kits would make it almost impossible to actually do prenatal paternity testing at all. And these are lives, right? These are real people who lose a child, gain a child.
Okay.
If you want to speak to him directly... We have the story. We didn't need Sheldon's help to get us a story. We'd been chasing one for months with all these different threads. And that's how I ended up here at a federal courthouse in White Plains, New York for the sentencing of Kyle Suey.
It's just after 3 p.m., September 17, 2024. I'm standing at the bottom of the courthouse steps. The judge has handed down Kyle's sentence, and I'm calling Rachel to tell her what happened. Like, what did he look like? What was his demeanor? Kyle walked in, his head shaved, wearing a Hudson Correctional Center green jacket. looked at his family, gave a quick little thumbs up before it all started.
They were really quiet throughout, barely moved throughout the whole hearing, listening intently. That family included Kyle's sister, his elderly mother and father, and his wife, Ellen. Many had written letters of support describing Kyle as an attentive and caring husband and father.
Kyle's lawyer is asking for his release with time served, but the prosecution wants a sentence of 41 months, almost three and a half years in prison. The big factor in this, and I think this sort of rings with The people we've been speaking to about prenatal paternities and acumetrics is that both the prosecutor and the judge talked about the victims and what they were purchasing.
It wasn't so much how much money, the dollar amount. It was about what they were purchasing, which was health-related issues. Kyle has a 10-year-old and a 9-year-old.
And the judge at one point actually said, you imagine someone with a nine-year-old child that, you know, does this test and they send it to your company and they get back a report saying bunk results and something terrible happens to the child. How would you feel if that was your child? So that was the clincher for the judge. In the end, the judge sides with the prosecution.
Kyle is sentenced to 41 months. Sitting through the rehashing of Kyle's crime during the sentencing hearing, I'm struck by the familiar ring of the details. The mail order testing kits, samples tossed in the trash. It matches a similar pattern that's emerged in our investigation of Acumetrix.
The company advertised it had offices in places like New York City and London, UK, but they were really just P.O. boxes, like in Kyle's hair testing scam. I search out Kyle's lawyer. So first, how do I say your last name? Lickman. Lickman. Jeffrey Lickman is the real deal, a top New York City criminal lawyer. Client list includes John Gotti Jr., El Chapo, and P. Diddy's kid, Justin Combs.
I came across your client, Kyle Sui, because of his work with Accumetrix. And there he's being accused of doing the same thing he admitted to here, which was throwing out samples. And I'm just wondering if you have heard of his involvement with Accumetrix.
And who did the investigation in Accumetrix?
This is news to us. We know Corral called the Toronto Police a couple of times to file a complaint, but they told her there was nothing they could do and she should try going to the North Bay Police. She was told by the North Bay cops to maybe try the Ontario Provincial Police. Codal got nowhere. Rachel and I called as well. All dead ends.
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