Ex-VI Premier Andrew A. Fahie reportedly requests another trial delay
Mr Fahie, through his attorney, had initially requested a federal judge to delay his July 18, 2022, trial date to early 2023, and had a subsequent extension to July 17, 2023.
St Thomas Source is now reporting that Mr Fahie has now requested the July 17 trial date be pushed back to at least November 1, 2023.
The former Virgin Islands’ Premier, Mr Fahie, is to be tried on cocaine smuggling and money laundering charges.
Fahie allegedly wants to know what the Maynards are saying
In addition, according to St Thomas Source on June 21, 2023, Mr Fahie also sought to know what former BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) Managing Director Oleanvine Pickering Maynard and her son Kadeem S. Maynard told prosecutors.
The Maynards both changed their plea to guilty on June 12 to a single count of cocaine smuggling conspiracy. They’ve agreed to tell prosecutors all they know, according to court documents.
They are now expected to be sentenced on August 21, 2023.
The USVI publication reported that Mr Fahie’s attorney has filed a series of sealed motions, hidden from public view, asking the court to compel prosecutors to reveal the names of people who recorded more than 8,000 minutes of audio tape on which Fahie allegedly gleefully agreed to the drug-running plot.
The government’s refusal to turn over their secret source’s name, and information on potential payment they received for their services from federal officials, hinders Fahie’s ability to adequately defend himself, his attorney argued on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.
The issue of the confidential source’s identity, transcription of the tapes, and multiple terabytes of evidence extracted from Fahie’s digital devices and other data has been a point of contention since at least October 2022.
According to St Thomas Source, US Prosecutors delivered the most recent batch of tape transcriptions on June 9, 2023, according to court records.
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a Cliff with her eyes wide open and a smile on her face.
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