Lear Goring, a close friend of Guyana Water Inc’s (GWI) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Richard Van West-Charles and who has been employed as the Debt Collection Manager at the utility company, is believed to be a convicted drug trafficker.
According to court documents seen by this newspaper, Lear Goring was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine in 1995 and he later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 63 months in prison by Judge K M Moore in a Brooklyn, New York Court. He was expected to be supervised for 48 months after release.
Following his sentencing, Goring petitioned the court to waive his rights to a deportation hearing and said he agreed to be deported immediately, which would have seen him receiving a reduction of the sentence.