Fahie set for July trial date, court filing shows
Following closely on the heels of receiving a costlier bail offer and new conditions being attached to his pre-trial release, a July trial date has been set for former Premier of the territory, Andrew Fahie.
According to a recent court filing, the former Premier will face a jury trial on July 18 before Judge Kathleen Williams. Fahie’s co-accused, Oleanvine Maynard (the former BVI Ports Director), is also expected to face trial on the same date as well.
Court records also indicate that a zoom calendar call has been set between the parties. That call is scheduled to take place before a judge one week ahead of his trial date.
A standing order for criminal discovery has also been filed in the matter. The attorneys involved in the case are, therefore, expected to immediately reveal any newly discovered information or other material within the scope of local laws.
Revised bond
Fahie was arrested on April 28 after a months-long sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He recently pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to launder money and import cocaine into the United States. If convicted, he along with Maynard and her son Kadeem, face up to life imprisonment.
Fahie’s bond was recently revised and was increased from $500,000 to $1,000,000 after prosecutors failed to get his previous bond revoked; claiming that he was a ‘severe flight risk’.
The new bond conditions come with a Nebbia hold attached. This allows the court to consider the source of funds used to post bail or purchase a bond, and look into whether or not the funds are linked to any criminal or illicit activity.
Half of the bond ($500,000) includes a previous partially secured bond (PSB) which must be cosigned by Fahie, his daughters and a friend; court records show.
The other half of the bond, a corporate security bond (CSB), requires that Fahie is to have 24/7 GPS monitoring and is disallowed from making visits to his attorney. His attorney is instead required to visit him at home. Fahie is also required to sign a waiver of extradition worldwide as part of those conditions.
The bond conditions will only be implemented once everything has been approved at a hearing before the court.
The state is being represented by Frederic Shadley while the former Premier will be represented by Theresa Van Vliet, who officially filed documents stating she was Fahie’s permanent attorney in the matter late last week.
Up to the end of last week, Oleanvine’s son Kadeem had been awaiting extradition from Puerto Rico to Miami after first being arrested in neighbouring St Thomas several weeks ago.
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We miss u BVILOVE
BVI Love Coke!
Get a life. Every country has its share of coke so make that the slogan for each country in the world then.
BVI aint the only country to have coke conspirators and we won’t be the last. Your labeling is juvenile and unjustified. Just a lot of you haters and paid bloggers happy to focus on this because you have nothing better to do. I can enlighten you on several coke busts elsewhere since this but I think you just love the BVI too much to pay attention to anywhere else so continue to spread your love for the better.
It is concerning that you don’t understand the moral depravity of doing business with the drug cartels, and the significance that it wasn’t just a random criminal but the head of government … unfortunately it is symptomatic of the ethical bankruptcy of the culture in the BVI. Do an honest day’s work? No thank you! If you people don’t learn, the BVI will be consigned to the back pages of history, just like Africa where thousands of children starve every day, even though the land is bountiful.
well sah….look at we premier….in a jail suit not he own suit and tie….foy boy u let us down big time….wether we like u or not, u is we premier and u gone and get ketch with all that drug and money….we looking like some fools in uk and in the news….well sah….all our hard work gone becuz u 2 greedy….u and that groundhog from east….2 set of greedy fools….well sah….now we have another f**l in charge….lawd sen help…well sah
You miss his crook? Why what ddi you do for you whilst he was lining his bank from drug money?
My people I am coming home soon to fight against u.k rule and to take back my rightful place as premier
lol See you in 30+
Yee reep what yee sow. We are no longer a Narco nation. We repent and move forward towards a brighter tomorrow.
Is that what the guy from Senegal told you. ?
There is no Senegal man the dea framed me and has spread lies, I intend to sue them for defamation when I when my trial
I shall return to the motherland as well and help restore the original bvi before the dea got involved in our industry
Returning to what do? Head cocaine?
There was a time in the distant past whereby someone accused of a crime was tried before a jury of their peers. Today, as in this case and many others before, that jury may not be from the accused country of origin but rather from a totally different country and culture.
We have come to accept that but one has to wonder regardless of the accused crime if that process is fair to such defendants.
Lets take a closer look. The former Premier and his co-accused are being accused of money laundering and conspiracy to import illicit drugs into the US.
They are being judged in a country they never grew up in nor lived in for any significant period, and are being judged by people in that country and by a country that is of the view that you (the defendants) were sending drugs to our country.
There is something inherently bias with that process and the outcome is more of a foregone conclusion.
However, as inherently biased as it may appear, there is something called international law and treaties and extradition between countries that makes these kinds of prosecutions possible.
The message from this is:
The arms of the law is long. Commit a serious crime that impacts another country? Expect that you can face consequences in that other country.
I think we all know how this trial will end for all 3 defendants. These defendants have made the case for the prosecution easily by their own words and actions. Its hard to dispute or defend that.
Which reminds me. I need to write and say less. While I am not trying to commit no crime, I need to continue practicing keeping my mouth closed especially around people I don’t know. I should practice the same even around people I know. Cierra la boca.
As Bob Marley once sang: Only your best friend knows your secret, so only he(she) can reveal it.
At any rate, the trial date is quite quick given the defendants were recently arrested. Similar cases in the past took longer to get to trial.
He was not taken from the BVI nor was he arrested here. They made sure to “catch” him on Us soil acknowledging and accepting money for the safe passage of drugs. Where else must he be tried?
You are obviously a racist. First, you commit a crime against another country or in another country then you face trial in that country and imprisonment. I recall many, many people imprisoned in the BVI and there trials did not have jury’s of people of their country of origin. Second, in the US a defendant is allowed a speedy trial. Foy and his lawyer opted for this as he can’t get out on bond so “let’s get it over with” decision. Third, by what you have written shows you are a complete moron and just trying to cause racism in a Territory already plagued by too much of it. Back under your rock please.
@Racist. LOL. That was quite amusing to me giving whom I know myself to be. Being call a racist is quite new to me. I guess there is a first for everything.
I think some of you folks cannot separate your feelings toward Fahie at this moment to hear anything else. I understand.
Your racist line does give me a good chuckle however.
Applying your logic on jury of his peers are you suggesting that Head Coach’s trial should be held in RoadTown or perhaps in the First District? What happened with the H0dge case?
Using your logic on his lack of connection to the US, then why should he have been granted bail?
The timing of the trial is admirable. Head Coach, mama clown and baby clown are all on film committing a crime that took place in the BVI and The US.
Sounds like how expats are treated in the BVI
It more sounds like how expats treat BVI belongers at home.
The only difference is that the expats who feel they are being illtreated are free to leave. Fahie is, unfortunately, not free to leave the US.
Anyone who travels widely around this planet KNOWS that in any country whenever a crime occurs in that country a foreign person is always considered guilty until proven innocent. That’s why lots of travelers only travel in their private vehicles so they can escape across the country’s borders before they can be connected to a crime. Tourists traveling on commercial planes, ships, buses are targets for criminal conspiracies everywhere they go.
He will always be known as the man who turned BVI into a Narco state.
I totally agree. This will be his legacy and nothing before will ever count. He messed up his entire life and left the BVI name as collateral damage.
And the former math teacher and minister of education who needed a calculator to determine the value of 10% of $68million.
It was actually 12%…but still should have been a doddle for a math teacher…
After one bush bath the head coach will be freed
Hope he try stinging nettle.
Don’t laugh after the former premier. I would more laugh at the unity government. It’s a puppet show going on. Just fitting for UK Comedy Central aka Governor’s office.
Five weeks after his arrest and still no news on other mentioned at the time. Do we assume that life is going on as normal for those people and they are still working in important roles in out Customs/ports etc?
Why have they not been tackled? What harm are they still doing? What evidence are they destroying?
Minus one dislike, I click by mistake.
That 1 million U.S.Bail should be Transfer back to B.V.I. Government Territory of the people.
Can’t wait for him to return home as our real premier
Put the house on auction
Sorry but I have to laugh at both Andrew and as you rightly called it the puppet show. The BVI is in an unfortunate position.
Pharaoh let my people go.. the Israelites are in danger in these time. Help us!
fasted date I seen set we have had people hold in us water and haven’t even gotten a court date as yet. they really want the DREW.
Hold yah head..round here we dont wish death or jail on nobody..keep the faith
The only difference is that the expats who feel they are being illtreated are free to leave. Fahie is, unfortunately, not free to leave the US.
That’s why I left.
No one seems to care about them while they rot in a jail in Miami. They were dropped like hot potatoes.
Come to think of it wasn’t too long ago that they had friends. Now everybody it seems has turned their back on them. Poor Andrew and Ollervine.
Andrew…Who? Ollervine?…Who.. Never heard of them. They were not born here. We don’t care.
Have mercy on them. At least help with their bail money. God will bless you all. Dont forget to offer up some prayers too. 🙂
Let them fight their Battle. The Media needs to follow them down the Hospital. That includes the Emergency Personnel, Health Care Administrator, the doctors, nurses and Finance.
Give us a break from being reminded of the Greed of OTHERS. Let’s move on!
I wonder what will it be this time. Sadly the BVI have been film twice and one of those short film can be seen easily on youtube.
First, “Murder in Paradise” this short film/documentary to me is still unsolved and I think those…. let me leave that there.
Secondly, “Drug trafficker and Police shoot out”/Document. I think this one can be found on forensic file. But the whole document of that shoot out is given. And i think that…. Well let me leave that one there.
And Last “Head-Coach” if they ever do decide to do a detailed document on this, which will be hard because I truly believe this will be a long going investigation. But I only mention that to shed light that right now bvi have good documentaries however the bad are taking over now.
I hear tourist board going to give out soap on a rope and a Coke to all visitors.
They are going to the big house for the big time they deserve. Many more will follow once the COI prosecutions commence.
The sympathy you suggest should be extended towards our families who have a had to endure corruption and grotesque mismanagement for the past generation.
Why aren’t you raising money to put the fire at our dump? Why aren’t you raising money to rebuild our schools? Why aren’t you raising money to rebuild our infrastructure?
Were you satisfied that our hospital that we spent $100,000,000 to build sat empty for 5 years because it wasn’t designed properly? Were you satisfied when we invested $7,200,000 with a bunch a crooks who were doing the same scam (Baltia Airlines) at the same time we accelerated payments to them without even doing a Google search to see if they were legit? Were you satisfied when we spent soooo much on the pier park? Our children should not be so complacent.
We will be a great country one day. But we shall never forget the mistakes we have made along the way.
I GUESS YOU ARE LOOKING WITHIN YOURSELF ? ,SO YOU MAY CONTINUE FOOLING YOURSELF
Who’s donating….??
The Battle for the BVI
There is a Battle for the BVI
Cause our Leaders have gone astray
And have left the Nation reeling
In Corruption and Dismay.
Our Former Leader is in Prison
For the alleged wrong he had done
And the Parties that were reigning
Have crumbled to the ground.
We all are shocked, and sadden
And feeling quite ashamed
But we all have failed to cry out
So we all must bear the blame.
The Commissioner of Inquiry
Has release a sad report
And the information there in
Burns with fire and with smoke.
There’s many recommendations
We are commanded now to do
And all will be affected
As the process comes in view.
The UK hammer hangs over our heads
With drastic investigations
And threat of DIRECT RULE
Is hanging o’ the Nation.
Look at how the people
And the Country have been fooled
And now we all are threatened
By the UK Direct Rule.
Our Nation is in trouble
And is fighting to survive
And there is a Battle Raging
It’s for the BVI.
May God help this little Nation
From this blow, it will revive
This is “Nature Little Secret”
The Battle for the BVI.
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Whomever Ms Mercer is, please write more if you have not already done so. Not necessarily here, but in a big way like books.
I see a unique talent here in the way you write that can inspire many in print. I encourage you to use your talent in a big way if you haven’t already. I am sure you have written other great works before. Share it with the world.
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Whose Head Coach is that? I think I know.
Its owner is quite angry though.
He was cross like a dark potato.
We watch him pace. We cry hello.
He gives his Head Coach a shake,
And screams I’ve made a bad mistake.
The only other sound’s the break,
Of distant waves and birds awake.
The Head Coach is fat, greedy and deep,
But he has promises to keep,
Tormented with nightmares he never sleeps.
Revenge is a promise a man should keep.
He rises from his cursed bed,
With thoughts of violence in his head,
A flash of rage and he sees red.
Without a pause he fled.
Head Coach Arrested
There once was a teacher from the first district
Whose greed made him easy to trick
He sought to supply the cocaine addict
But soon the jury will reach a verdict
And he will go to jail as an imperial edict
Popeye The Sailor man
The Premier’s a bit of a crook
Learned straight from the Escobar book
Now gimme the money
Don’t do nuttin’ funny
I’ll shoot ya – I don’ give a fook.
I got me a witch doctor man
He’ll get me outa de can.
For 85 grand
It’s to Voodoo land
I’m goin’ – an’ God’ll give me a hand
Prayers and bail money?!!?
Thousands of children have died and others addicted and you want to pray for him and raise bail????
AYO SICK IN THE HEAD OR IGNORANTLY TWISTED!
HMMM, Let’s see his tiefin’, money laundering fool thinks he can just stroll back into the loving arms of his people.
Yeah, I gotta see this one!?