New York — A man accused of trying to bribe a juror with up to $100,000 in the drug trafficking trial of a former heavyweight boxer pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice.
Mustafa Fetija entered a plea in Brooklyn federal court, where his plea agreement with the government stipulates that he will serve approximately five to six years in prison when he is sentenced on June 23.
He was among Three men were charged in November P in a plot to spoil the trial of boxer Goran Gogic.
Gocek’s trial, which was scheduled to begin in November, has not yet taken place. He has pleaded not guilty to violating the Navy Drug Enforcement Act and conspiring to violate it. If convicted, he faces a prison sentence of 10 years or life.
Fettija has remained free on $150,000 bail since his arrest. According to court records, Fettija already knew a juror described in court papers as “John Doe #1” when he called him several times on his cellphone to ask to meet him in Staten Island.
Over two meetings over three days, Fetega told the jury that his Bronx colleagues were willing to pay between $50,000 and $100,000 for an acquittal, according to charging documents.
Investigators said the evidence included several recorded conversations of the defendants planning the bribery plot speaking in Albanian and English.