Fahie’s trial pushed back again
Former Premier Andrew Fahie has suffered yet another delay to the start of his trial, this time, less than a week ahead of its scheduled start.
Fahie is charged with several counts of drug smuggling, money laundering and racketeering in Miami, Florida and is facing possible life imprisonment if convicted on the charges brought against him by the United States government.
The former Premier’s trial was expected to commence in earnest on January 8, but late motions by prosecutors just weeks ahead of the trial’s commencement forced Judge Kathleen Williams to schedule a hearing about those motions on the date the trial was expected to begin.
The trial has now been pushed back to Wednesday, January 10 instead.
Next Monday, the judge is expected to hear outstanding motions from both the prosecution and defence about the likely introduction of foreign laws and expert witnesses, the admission of hearsay testimony, a possible entrapment defence, and other issues that recently arose.
Fahie’s defence attorney, Theresa Van Vliet, previously objected to what she described as the prosecution’s ‘eleventh-hour’ motions and asked that the court dismiss them. Van Vliet contended at the time that the motions raised crucial issues for the first time, including the intention to present expert testimony and seek a jury instruction on foreign law in one instance.
Fahie was arrested on April 28, 2022, and remains confined to his daughters’ home in Miami, Florida as part of his $1 million bond conditions.
The former Premier was nabbed in Miami after he allegedly conspired with former BVI Ports Director Oleanvine Maynard and her son, Kadeem Maynard and agreed to allow large amounts of cocaine to pass through BVI’s ports as part of a multi-million dollar deal he made with an informant of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who was posing as a drug trafficker at the time.
The start date for Fahie’s trial has been adjusted on multiple occasions, largely due to the trove of evidence prosecutors claim implicates the former Premier in the elaborate drug and money laundering scheme.
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All the bottles shaking up but they will all explode
JUST DEPORT THE MAN BACK TO TOLA AND END THE STORY
Yes, send him right back to do what he was doing. Yall make me cry for my BVI
@STRUPES,
Deport without having the trial? His plea is ‘not guilty’ , so the trial must go on unless that changed before this new extended date.
Meantime, we must all be patient. I believe we’ll see much more before January 10th. I’m not ruling out a ‘Plea Deal’ at the eleventh-hour, but I may be wrong.
Deport in approximately 20 years plus after his rewarded stint in a US Penitentiary courtesy of US Taxpayers.
Tell me you don’t understand the US justice system without telling me.
They in BVI can’t hide behind another country for too long. Time will tell.
Free the Drew!
AND ALL THE TIME WE ALL THOUGHT YOU WERE A BOY
My prayers are with his mother wife and children. I pray protection for them all.
Imagine GTA VI release trailer came out before this man hearing
A Guilty Plea Deal is being worked on during the delay.
Andrew you got yourself in a fine sauce.
Like he did beginning his COI evidence he’ll just offer up a prayer .
next we’ll hear about the epstein connections