A Vanity Fair writer was kicked off the jury in a Brooklyn murder trial because she was caught posting on social media about a “hot FBI agent” who had been assigned to the case.
Delia Cai, the magazine’s chief correspondent and published author, was assigned to the case of Antony Abreu, one of the four men accused of planning and executing a hit on a business rival who was shot in the back of the head while leaving a NY karaoke bar in 2019.
Cai posted on duty, but I did get to see an attractive FBI agent.
He wasn’t done talking about the agent, admitting that he was probably skirting the rules in a follow-up post.
“We are literally not allowed to talk to each other outside of the courtroom…if I say hi, you legally have to ignore me…don’t you know that’s how I fall in love?”
Vanity Fair writer Delia Cai was kicked off the jury in a Brooklyn murder trial because she was caught posting on social media about a “hot FBI agent” who had been assigned to the case.
On Tuesday, Cai had been kicked off the jury and, naturally, he documented it in X as well.
“Anyway, I got kicked off the jury for posting about this…learn from this what you want,” he said.
Judge Carol Bagley Amon reportedly reprimanded her and dismissed her from the trial after the court discovered her posts, according to the New York Daily News.
Cai apologized and in an interview after her expulsion, said she was simply trying to be funny before being sent to what she called “slutty jail.”
—I had never served on a jury before. I never interacted with the criminal justice system. “I think I came in pretty naively,” she said.
“I didn’t mean to make light of something as serious as a murder trial.”
Cai covers pop culture and writes extensive celebrity profiles for the magazine and published her debut book, Central Places, in 2023.
In the end, he admitted that he posts so much about the details of his life that he has a “posting disease.”
Cai, the magazine’s chief correspondent and the publication’s author, was assigned to the case of Antony Abreu, one of four men accused of planning and carrying out a hit against a business rival who was shot in the back of the head as he left. from New York. York City Karaoke Bar in 2019
Cai posted on duty, but I did get to see an attractive FBI agent.
“I’m sure if I had thought about it for five more minutes, I would have realized that it was wildly inappropriate,” she added.
She described herself as feeling “brain dead” at the time and “just trying to be funny” during the murder-for-hire case.
“In this case, I made a really bad joke on the Internet and there were consequences,” Cai said, adding that she is ultimately “horrified” by what happened.
‘That’s how I am with life in general. I’ll tweet about how they dumped me. I didn’t understand what was at stake. I didn’t take into account the seriousness of the situation.’
DailyMail.com has contacted Cai for further comment.
Abreu was charged in 2022 along with Qing Ming Yu, also known as ‘Allen Yu’, You You known as ‘Eddie’ and Zhe Zhang for the death of Xin Gu, 31, a business rival of Yu.
Prosecutors said Yu, former CEO of Amaco Management & Consulting Inc., had ordered his nephew, Eddie, to kill Gu, who was once Yu’s apprentice but had gone off on his own and won several supposedly promised contracts. to Yu’s company.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace condemned the murder, saying in a statement: “As alleged, the defendants callously used gun violence to resolve a business dispute, reducing the value of a man’s life to a dollar figure and causing trauma and grief in the community. .’
Four men, including Abreu, were arrested and charged in 2022 for the murder of 31-year-old Xin Gu, who was shot in the back of the head while leaving a Queens karaoke bar in 2019 (pictured).
Prosecutors said Abreu was the masked gunman who was captured on video harassing Gu. Abreu allegedly worked for Zhe Zhang at the request of You You, the nephew of Qing Ming Yu, who prosecutors say attacked Gu, a business rival.
“Prosecuting killers will always be a top priority for this office, whether the defendant pulls the trigger or pays someone else to do the dirty work for him.”
According to a court filing about the FBI’s investigation into the case, Gu began working for Yu in 2015 at Amaco, a Manhattan-based development company that managed the renovation of commercial projects.
Investigators said Gu worked at the company for three years, but ultimately felt undercompensated by Yu, so the upstart formed his own company, which many of Yu’s clients followed.
Investigators said Yu had attempted to cancel construction permits, block supply lines and alienate Yu’s subcontractors to hinder the success of the “Project,” but the efforts failed and Amaco closed in 2018.
Prosecutors said Yu approached his nephew, who enlisted Zhang and Abreu’s help to follow Gu on February 12, 2019, while the successful developer was celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year with more than 100 people.
Gu attended an after-party at a karaoke bar in Flushing, and when he decided to return home and called an Uber to pick him up, Abreu allegedly ran after him and shot Gu in the back of the head.
The horrifying scene was captured on a surveillance camera, which showed a masked man walking on the sidewalk suddenly ran towards Gu and shot him just as he was about to get into the Uber.
As Gu fell to the ground, the man above him shot him several times as the Uber driver sped off.
Qing Ming Yu was convicted in connection with the 2023 murder.