The United States government has declined to take a position on a request by Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad to be kept in a minimum security facility except to say that it doesn’t want Ahmad and the man he successfully testified against, former New York State Senator, John Sampson kept in the same facility.
Ahmad who pleaded guilty in a New York court to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud is seeking to spend his 24-month jail term in a minimum security facility.
Ahmad’s lawyer Steven R Kartagener wrote to the judge in the case, Dora Irizarry stating that his intended incarceration at the Metropolitan Detention 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 its reply on Tuesday, the US government wrote to the judge stating