-so ‘I can work to support my family’
Money launderer Sabrina Budhram, who earlier this year began serving her year-and-a-day sentence, is asking Judge Edward Korman to place her in a halfway house for the remainder of her sentence so that “I can work to support my family.”
In a handwritten letter, seen by this newspaper, and sent to the judge from her jail cell, Budhram also told the judge that since she started serving her time on March 23 she has not been “designated.”
“Also since my arrest on April 6, 2004 all my personal documents were confiscated and my family’s properties were held on a lien for my release on bond. In light of this, I am requesting that your honor recommend that these be released to my family since I am already in custody,” Budhram also said in her letter.
Budhram and her husband Arnold, who was sentenced to three years probation last October, had pleaded guilty to the money laundering charge in the New York court.
While Sabrina had admitted to collecting large sums of money from drug traffickers, her husband said he deposited it into bank accounts in small sums to avoid filing currency transaction reports (CTR) that help detect money laundering.
Court documents stated that a handwritten “money and drug ledger,” found in the Budhrams’ home at the time of their arrest, referred to individuals who are believed to be convicted drug kingpin Roger Khan’s co-conspirators.
The prosecution had told the court that bank records indicated that in 2001 a company associated with the Budhrams transferred money to a bank account in the name of Khan’s relatives and it appeared that Khan was in direct contact with the Budhrams in early 2003.
The Budhrams were arrested and charged with money laundering on April 6, 2004 and investigators searched their home and work offices and gathered a large amount of evidential material. They were granted US$5 million bail each and were placed under electronic monitoring and were not allowed to leave their home without permission except to go to work.
The prosecution had revealed how bank vice-president Arnold Budhram and radiology technician Sabrina Budhram used a company they had set up and their connections to launder money for drug traffickers operating in Guyana.
Sabrina Budhram is the sister of Peter Morgan, who is now awaiting sentencing in New York after pleading guilty to conspiracy to traffic in narcotics. He was extradited from Trinidad and charged in the US. Records showed that in at least one case the couple transferred funds in his name.
your bail will return after your probation, and that crime is a felony so the doors of guyana will be open for your return.
GREED, GREED, GREED, will catch up with you.
WELL SAID , Freespeech . The guyanese living abroad giving Guyana bad-name .
This woman must stop her STUPIDNESS and CUT SH JAIL TIME!! she should have thought of the conciquences before she got involved in what ever she was doing. Let her stay in jail for all the lives she has hepled to ruin.PAY D PENALTY!!! SH BIN LAUNDERIN MONEY LEAH SH LAUNDER SH CONSCIENCE NOW AND MECK SHORE IT CLEAN .
LADIE STAAN EASY AN BARE YUH CHAFE…U LOOK FUH WHA YU GET
Thank you USA keeping them in jail.
No mercy should be should for this crook, let her do her time she should have thought about her family before she decided to enter the criminal enterprise.
Jail big time. This criminal DID NOT deserve the light sentence she got in the first place. Jail and jail for a long time. Forget the comforts of that Queens home. You should have thought of your son when you were getting rich and ruining other lives. Selfish creature.
I guess they have U.S. citizenship and therefore not subject to deportation. What a pity? These are embarrassments to Guyana.
Borapork ! ICE can run some scripts on their files. With their background, ICE will surely come up with something to revoke the citizenship.
That citizenship is conditional and it could be revoked at any time.
Lost her away. She is one of them who is in the act of getting rich off of other people souls. What a shame.
like the usa and barbados how do u think those country build
Does she even recognise the fact that her activities contributed indirectly to misery. Stay in jail.
THIS WOMAN GOT A WHOLE YEAR IN PRISON??????????
NOW SHE IS ASKING FOR A REDUCTION.
THE JUDGE MUST CONSIDER THIS CASE
THIS WOMAN SHOULD GET A CHANGE IN SENTENCE.
THE JUDGE SHOULD CHANGE IT TO 5 YEARS HARD LABOUR.
LET HER AND OTHERS KNOW IT CAN BE FUN BREAKING BRICKS WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER AND GET HONEST PAY FOR THAT TOO.
Lol.
BISHNUR, THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES OF 1986 PROVIDE SPECIFIC TABLES FOR THE TYPE OF CRIME ONE IS CONVICTED FOR, BY HER PLEA AGREEMENT SHE WAS SENTENCED TO A YEAR AND A DAY, MEANING THAT SHE WILL ONLY SERVE 8 MONTHS IN JAIL, HAD SHE BEEN SENTENCED TO 1 YEAR, SHE WOULD HAVE TO SERVE ANOTHER 2 MONTH OR SO. ALSO SHE IS ASKING TO BE PLACED IN A HALF WAY HOUSE SO THAT SHE CAN WORK DURING THE DAY AND RETURN TO THE HALF WAY HOUSE AT NIGHT, HOWEVER SHE IS NOT DESIGNATED AS OF YET, MEANING THAT SHE IS STILL IN A PRE TRIAL INSTITUTION, WHICH DOES NOT ALLOW HER THE FULL RIGHTS FOR A SENTENCED INMATE, THE FLIP SIDE IS IF SHE GOES TO A HALFWAY HOUSE SHE MOST LIKELY WILL VIOLATE AND BE SENT BACK TO THE PRE TRIAL INSTITUTION AS A PV, AND WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO COURT WHERE THE JUDGE WILL SENTENCE HER TO THE MAXIMUM.
Because my family is the victim of someone being on drugs and eventually loosing his life to this disease and me knowing the turmoil my family went through i have no sympathy for people who get rich on account of others sorrow. Lives have been ruined and continue to be ruined because of people like this woman who put a blind eye to the lives they help to ruin and accept money out of nothing else but greed because they don’t give a damn about who is left to live without a father, mother, sister, brother, child.