New York-based Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad who pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud is seeking to spend his 24-month jail term in a minimum security facility.
According to court documents seen by Stabroek News, Ahmad’s lawyer Steven R Kartagener wrote to the judge in the case, Dora Irizarry stating that his intended incarceration at the Metropolitan Deten-tion Centre in Brooklyn, New York would be onerous and could also pose a danger to him considering his co-operating testimony in a case for the US government.
In his letter of June 8 to the judge, Kartagener said “For someone of (the) defendant’s age, 50, this assignment is particularly onerous. I have since learned that the BOP (Bureau of Prisons) will consider re-designation of a defendant assigned to the MDC, but that it requires the willingness of the court to make such a designation”.