


The former State Street vice president charged with raping a series of girls and women appeared in court today for a scheduling hearing ahead of his upcoming trial expected to take place next January.
Ivan Cheung faces 11 charges in Suffolk Superior Court: four counts of forcible rape of a child under 16, two counts of rape of a child under 16, four counts of aggravated rape, and a count of assault with intent to rape.
Cheung was initially charged in September of last year. He was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on Sept. 13. He was fired from his job at State Street, where his LinkedIn profile showed he had worked for 18 years and most recently as a vice president of “procurement category strategy,” which is building a new headquarters across from that court, on the same day.
“We have made the decision to terminate the individual’s employment,” Ed Patterson, the company’s chief spokesman, told the Herald that evening.
His case was kicked up to the Superior Court following an indictment on the aforementioned charges filed on Dec. 20, 2022. He was arraigned on those charges in Superior Court the following Jan. 4.
Cheung was late to the Tuesday hearing before Assistant Clerk Magistrate Ed Curley at Suffolk Superior Court. Cheung’s attorney, Peter Parker, said that Cheung had texted him that he was having trouble finding parking.
By 9:46 a.m., however, Cheung walked into the courtroom wearing a thick, gray button-up shirt and a black and gray ball cap, which the duty guard told him to remove. He said either nothing or very little during the appearance.
The appearance itself was quite brief as it only dealt with scheduling motions deadlines ahead of the jury trial scheduled for next January. A report filed Tuesday said the trial will likely take between seven and 10 days.
Cheung had bailed out of BMC on $1,000,000 bail. He remains out on bail, which was set in his Superior Court arraignment at $2,000,000 surety or $200,000 cash.
Conditions to his release set on Jan. 4 by Assistant Clerk Magistrate Stacey Pichardo are that Cheung is subject to GPS monitoring, to reside at his fixed address — which is listed a in Roxbury — have no contact with the victims, surrender his passport and stay in the state, and to abide by a curfew barring him from leaving home from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. every day.
This is a developing story.