MIAMI, CMC – Forward of beginning the drug and cash laundering trial towards former Premier Andrew Fahie in January. The prosecution has disclosed an inventory of six individuals anticipated to take the stand.
Fahie, 53, is charged with one rely of conspiracy to import a managed substance, conspiracy to interact in cash laundering, and tried cash laundering.
That is along with a subsequent cost of interstate and overseas journey in support of racketeering added final yr.
Former BVI Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Pickering Maynard heads the prosecution’s checklist. He’s anticipated to supply crucial testimony towards Fahie after she was provided a plea settlement and an opportunity at a lowered sentence for her function within the scheme that shook the territory final yr.
Maynard admitted in her plea settlement that she launched a US Drug Enforcement Company informant posing as a drug cartel member to Fahie, and collectively, they used their authority to facilitate a secret cocaine-smuggling plan.
The previous Premier was arrested on April 28, 2022, on the Miami-Opa Locka airport after a sting operation alongside along with his co-accused, Pickering Maynard.
Maynard’s son, Kadeem Stephan Maynard, aka Blacka, was arrested on the identical day within the US Virgin Islands.
Earlier this yr, Kadeem pleaded responsible to a single rely of conspiracy to import cocaine and was lately sentenced to 57 months in jail.
Pickering-Maynard might be adopted on the witness stand by US Drug Enforcement Administration brokers Jossue Dominguez, Shad Aschleman, and Brian Witek, together with Jon Adams and William Cortes from the US Customs and Border Safety.
The prosecution additionally launched an in depth checklist of reveals to be offered at trial, together with recordings and transcripts of cellphone calls between Fahie and the federal government’s confidential supply on numerous March and April 2022 dates.
The protection workforce, led by legal professional Theresa Van Vliet, has repeatedly tried to reveal the informant’s title earlier than the trial.
Moreover, there are WhatsApp message logs, a handwritten ledger from an April 27, 2022 assembly, name logs for numerous cellphone numbers, surveillance movies, a lease doc for a property in Miami, and pictures of Fahie’s co-accused.
Fahie stays in confinement on the residence of his daughters on a US$1 million bond forward of his January 8, 2024 trial.
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