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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby 16 cycles » November 15th, 2019, 11:10 am

VexXx Dogg wrote:Spinning top in mud, except that it costs a fuckton of money


He al­so or­dered that the State pay the group’s le­gal costs for bring­ing the law­suit.


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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby sMASH » November 15th, 2019, 12:39 pm

3 pnm administrations later, and this?

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby maj. tom » November 15th, 2019, 1:07 pm

So Fairy eh dropping the case?

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby zoom rader » November 15th, 2019, 1:53 pm

sMASH wrote:3 pnm administrations later, and this?



Vote PNM Dec 2nd

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby rspann » November 15th, 2019, 3:47 pm

Allyuh never hear about the golden rule?

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby pugboy » November 15th, 2019, 4:06 pm

Jack must be watching this and figuring out how long he have to drag out his case too.

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby maj. tom » November 15th, 2019, 4:22 pm

Jack gonna dead of old age before he case call.

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby pugboy » November 15th, 2019, 4:37 pm

Well that is the idea
To never be convicted of any crime and able to bump yuh gum at will

maj. tom wrote:Jack gonna dead of old age before he case call.

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby VexXx Dogg » November 15th, 2019, 7:11 pm

pugboy wrote:Well that is the idea
To never be convicted of any crime and able to bump yuh gum at will

maj. tom wrote:Jack gonna dead of old age before he case call.

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby redmanjp » November 15th, 2019, 7:33 pm

VexXx Dogg wrote:Spinning top in mud, except that it costs a fuckton of money


why dey doh pay it

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby De Dragon » November 15th, 2019, 8:55 pm

maj. tom wrote:So Fairy eh dropping the case?

Slim chance of that happening, after all it involves a few things that will make Arse-Wari take it all the way to the Privy Council.
1) It involves UNC financiers
2) It isn't "his" money paying high priced legal teams
3) This nimrod AG took 7 years to get a law degree.

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby wing » March 6th, 2023, 11:06 am

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

DPP discontinues Piarco case against Basdeo Panday, Oma, Ish Galbaransingh, Carlos John

JADA LOUTOO 27 MINUTES AGO

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Basdeo Panday and his wife Oma arrive for the opening of Parliament on September 23, 2015. A decades-old corruption case against the Pandays has been discontinued. - File Photo/Roger Jacob


THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Roger Gaspard, SC, has withdrawn the decades-old corruption case against former prime minister Basdeo Panday, his wife Oma, former minister Carlos John and businessman Ishwar Galbaransingh.

The latest development took place on Monday when the matter was expected to go to trial before Magistrate Adia Mohammed.

Gaspard explained his reason for discontinuing the decades-old case.

He told the court the Piarco inquiry involving the four was one of “some antiquity.”

“I have looked at these proceedings and I am of the view that having regard to the fact that several of our key witnesses have now become unavailable, and bearing in mind, My Lady, my guiding yardsticks, those being whether or not in the circumstances, to prosecute this matter or in the prosecution of this matter there will be a fair prospect of conviction and whether to prosecute this matter, if on the evidence, there is a fair prospect of conviction such that prosecution will be in the public interest, I have decided to go no further with this matter.”

Last September, Mohammed dismissed an application by the four for their discharge after the State asked for an adjournment to determine the way forward when the magistrate said she received authorisation to start the case afresh.

Mohammed took over the matter in 2019 and said she received authorisation to start the case afresh.

The Pandays were charged with corruptly receiving money while John and Galbaransingh were charged with corruptly giving £25,000 to the couple.

John and Galbaransingh were accused of giving Panday the money as an inducement or reward in relation to the Piarco airport expansion project.

The Pandays and the others were charged in 2005.

A preliminary inquiry began before former senior magistrate Ejenny Espinet on May 31, 2006, and on February 12, 2008, the defendants asked that she recuse herself after they said they received information that Espinet was a trustee and treasurer of the Morris Marshall Development Foundation and thus, would be biased against them because of her alleged close connections with the People's National Movement (PNM).

Legal challenges on the basis of apparent bias were dismissed and the case continued before Espinet until she retired in 2018, leaving it part-heard.

In their application resisting its restart, John and Galbaransingh argued the prosecution had four years – after an appeal in the matter was discontinued to consider its options; that it was grossly unfair and egregiously wrong to have the decades-old matter remain before the court and the cost to the justice system to have it continued.

They argued the continuation of the prosecution after 17 years would amount to oppression and the proceedings ought to stop as an abuse of the process of the court having regard to the inexcusable and inordinate delay by the State.

It was further argued that nothing prevented the chief magistrate from ordering that the matter restart soon after Espinet retired in January 2018.

They also argued their constitutional rights to a fair trial will be prejudiced.

In giving a lengthy ruling, Mohammed said the delay they complained of did not result in any prejudice to them nor was their continued prosecution “unconscionable, oppressive or misuse of the process of the court.”

“…I do not find that this case falls into the category of exceptional and rare circumstances where the court ought to exercise its discretion to impose a stay of the proceedings on the basis of delay.”

She further noted, “This case concerns charges of both applicants under the Prevention of Corruption Act in May 2005 involving state funds.

“There is therefore a significant public interest in persons charged being brought to trial.”

She also mentioned that Panday was the prime minister and Oma his wife on the date of the alleged offence, so “public interest considerations are therefore significant in my determination of the application before this court in dealing with this matter justly.”

The charges against the former prime minister were linked to wider charges against several businessmen and businesses. In all, there are four related inquiries, none of which have gone to trial.

On June 29, Gaspard said it was his position that “taking Piarco One to trial would have been oppressive if not legally nettlesome while the other matters related to the airport project were in train, bearing in mind that there were common accused in both sets of matters.”

Instead, he said, “A joint trial of the allegations in Piarco One and those arising from those other matters was desirable.”

Two days earlier, the Privy Council held that a complaint by the accused charged in Piarco One, of apparent bias against then chief magistrate Sherman McNicolls, was sufficient to strike down their committal to stand trial. Gaspard said he now has to consider the future of that case.

Gaspard also said he felt constrained to advise citizens that, “the ruling by the Judicial Committee does not pertain to other matters which fall outside of those that comprise Piarco One.”

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby Kickstart » March 6th, 2023, 12:25 pm

Another L for PNM

Their voters , being not to smart voted for this.

Millions of dollars gone to feed PNM lawyers on bogus charges

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby matr1x » March 6th, 2023, 1:20 pm

They knee they had no case, and waste ppl money with this case

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby bluefete » March 6th, 2023, 1:40 pm

So what happened to Steve Ferguson?

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby Dizzy28 » March 6th, 2023, 3:33 pm

bluefete wrote:So what happened to Steve Ferguson?


That's a different case.

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby pugboy » March 6th, 2023, 4:44 pm

somebody need to do up a diagram of the structure of the various parts of these court cases and the persons involved

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby hover11 » March 6th, 2023, 4:58 pm

Somebody need to show exactly how to use this precedent to get away with crime

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update

Postby matr1x » March 6th, 2023, 5:02 pm

hover11 wrote:Somebody need to show exactly how to use this precedent to get away with crime



Except no crime was committed

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby The_Honourable » March 6th, 2023, 5:29 pm

The case against the group was one of four, related to the airport project, that were initiated following an investigation by Canadian forensic investigator Robert Lindquist.

In the first case, commonly referred to as Piarco 1, a group of government officials and businesspeople was charged with offences related to the alleged theft of $19 million.

The group included Galbaransingh, former finance minister Brian Kuei Tung; former national security minister Russell Huggins; former Nipdec chairman Edward Bayley (now deceased); Maritime General executives John Smith (now deceased), Steve Ferguson, and Barbara Gomes; Northern Construction Financial Director Amrith Maharaj; and Kuei Tung's then companion Renee Pierre.

Some of the group and other public officials were also slapped with separate charges over an alleged broader conspiracy to steal US$200 million in another case, commonly referred to as Piarco 2. Foreign nationals Raul Gutierrez Jr, Ronald Birk, and Eduardo Hillman-Waller were also charged as part of that case.

The Piarco 3 case pertained to a £$25,000 bribe allegedly received by Panday and his wife and allegedly paid by John and Galbaransingh, while Piarco 4 involves Pierre.

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby pugboy » March 6th, 2023, 5:44 pm

bas also got charged for the “daughter scholarship” money and got away with the heart doctor letter

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update

Postby pugboy » March 6th, 2023, 5:45 pm

rule#1 tief enough to hire lawyers to tie up the courts for decades

hover11 wrote:Somebody need to show exactly how to use this precedent to get away with crime

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby hover11 » March 6th, 2023, 5:46 pm

I remember this did he spend a weekend in the cell or was it a night , then he pulled the old "medical issue" trick. Funny enough he lived for many years thereafter and seems to be in excellent health today.
pugboy wrote:bas also got charged for the “daughter scholarship” money and got away with the heart doctor letter

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby Dizzy28 » March 10th, 2023, 9:02 am

pugboy wrote:bas also got charged for the “daughter scholarship” money and got away with the heart doctor letter


That was an integrity Commission related charge.
Failure to declare the London Bank Account to the IC.

https://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2. ... 18b37e9dd8

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby The_Honourable » March 28th, 2023, 9:59 pm

Miami verdict expected by week's end in Piarco trial

A VERDICT is expected by the end of the week for the latest in the multi-million civil asset forfeiture case linked to the construction of the Piarco Airport terminal building 22 years ago by a Miami jury.

The trial began on March 6, before Florida 11th Circuit Court judge Reemberto Diaz.

Newsday was told closing addresses are expected to begin on Wednesday, after which the eight jurors - two men and six women- will retire to deliberate on their verdict in the 19-year-old civil case. The trial began with nine jurors but one fell ill.

Before the court are businessman Steve Ferguson, former minister Brian Kuei Tung and US businessman Raul Gutierrez Jr.

The State began litigation in 2004 in the US to recoup US$37 million from those accused of corruption, among them businessman Steve Ferguson and former UNC minister Brian Kuei Tung. The alleged racketeering charges were filed under the US’s Racketeering and Influence Corruption Organisation Act (RICO).

Ferguson, Kuei Tung and American Raul Gutierrez are the only three defendants left in Government’s civil case from the original matter by former attorney general John Jeremie, SC. The case originally involved 23 defendants.

Default judgment was already entered against Kuei Tung. This has been the only trial of allegations arising out of the Piarco project as none of matters in the local courts have yet moved to the trial stage.

Former attorney general Faris Al-Rawi is in Miami as TT’s nominal representative at the trial.

In February, a US appeals court affirmed the disqualification of Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, and Miami law firm, Sequor Law, from representing TT in the case.

On the same day the trial started in Miami, Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard,SC, discontinued one of four preliminary inquires involving fraud and corruption charges arising out of the airport construction project.

That case- dubbed Piarco 3 - involved former prime minister Basdeo Panday, his wife Oma, former government minister Carlos John and businessman Ishwar Galbaransingh.

The other inquiries are still “active,” the DPP told Newsday on March 6.

https://newsday.co.tt/2023/03/28/miami- ... rco-trial/

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Re: Ish/Steve.... Update "May Go Free"

Postby The_Honourable » March 29th, 2023, 8:51 pm

State wins its case against 3 Piarco defendants in Miami with final judgement to be over US$100M dollars.

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Ish & Steve... Piarco Update - State Wins US100M in Miami

Postby bluefete » March 29th, 2023, 9:06 pm

I want to see how they getting that money!

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Re: Ish & Steve... Piarco Update - State Wins US100M in Miami

Postby paid_influencer » March 29th, 2023, 11:58 pm

Manning still winning, that is my prime minister.

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Re: Ish & Steve... Piarco Update - State Wins US100M in Miami

Postby hover11 » March 30th, 2023, 3:10 am

Wonder if they take a page from the government book and appeal this how sick the government would feel, lots of fanfare for nothing tbh.When will we see that money?
After they appeal and we find out that their businesses are in receivership, all we might remain with is the paper the judgement is written on.

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Re: Ish & Steve... Piarco Update - State Wins US100M in Miami

Postby adnj » March 30th, 2023, 4:59 am

A fraud conviction from anywhere in the world can put a green card holder on the US deportations list.

You might see one or two people packing and moving soon.

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