US Federal Judge Dora Irizarry yesterday afternoon said that while no sentence imposed on confessed drug trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan would make right whatever atrocities he had committed, the fact that he would serve time in a US prison meant that justice has been served.
Roger Khan
Justice Irizarry made this statement minutes before she sentenced the Guyanese drug lord to two 15-year and one ten-year prison terms, all of which would run concurrently. He was also ordered to pay a special assessment of US$300.
Following his prison term, the judge said, Khan would be placed on five years supervised release, but would more than likely be deported. And she warned him that if he re-entered the US illegally after deportation, he would be arrested and sentenced to a much longer prison term than the present one.
The judge did not fine the convict because of “his inability to pay.”
Yesterday’s sentencing brought a climax to Khan’s case which had riveted the country as explosive information linking the Guyana government to the once powerful and violent drug lord was revealed. Khan’s famous and now convicted lawyer’s trial had been similarly revealing. Among others, the revelations linked Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy to Khan and implicated him as being the government official authorizing the importation of the now infamous spy equipment to Guyana. Ramsammy has repeatedly denied any links to Khan.
“Fifteen years in a US prison is very long time,” Justice Irizarry said just around 3 pm yesterday when she sentenced Khan, the leader of a cocaine trafficking organization based in Georgetown and one of the primary controllers of cocaine flowing out of Guyana and into the US.
When given an opportunity to address the court, Khan, who was accused of having headed the deadly ‘Phantom Squad’ said to be responsible for dozens of unsolved killings, said in a barely audible voice that he was sorry for the “pain” his actions caused the citizens of the US. He also apologised to his family for the pain his actions caused them. He made no mention of Guyana or Guyanese.
And in what could be seen as a parting shot at his former attorneys Robert Simels and Arianne Irving – who are both awaiting sentencing having been convicted of witness tampering and other charges arising out of their representation of Khan — the drug convict thanked his two lawyers, Diarmuid White and John Bergendahl for “being men of integrity.
“I am serious the US should be happy to have men like these as citizens,” he added.
Justice Irizarry spent almost 35 minutes in the hour-long proceedings explaining why she accepted the plea bargain and referred to three letters — one by a cousin of the slain Ronald Waddell, one by a Harry Rampersaud and another anonymously written — all of which called for Khan to be given a longer sentence.
As the judge read the letters, one of which said Khan’s drug empire caused a lot of pain, grief and suffering for many families, the drug lord’s many relatives listened keenly and some even wept openly. His mother, Gloria Khan, bent her head and covered her face.
She later told reporters outside the court that she was happy it was over, but refused to address the concerns in the letter, preferring to say that people would always say “positive or negatives about someone.” She described her son as a “powerful child of God”.
A cousin of Khan said that after his return to Guyana the government should pay him and give him a pension. Asked why the government should make such a move the cousin said “no comment” and walked away.
Khan’s wife refused to talk to the many Guyanese journalists who had turned up at the court for the trial.
Khan had pleaded guilty, almost three years after he was held in Suriname, to conspiring to import cocaine into the US, witness tampering and gun running.
The long-awaited sentencing hearing commenced promptly at 2 pm when a clean-shaven Khan, dressed in a grey prison jumpsuit, made his way into court in smiles and waved to his many relatives, including his mother and wife, who were in court.
As Justice Irizarry prepared to address the court Khan and his wife were observed mouthing words to each other.
The courtroom was packed to capacity and many persons were forced to leave because no standees were allowed. Even the bar tables had several lawyers sitting and several US federal agents, believed to have assisted in the investigation into Khan’s drug empire, were also present.
Fifteen years
against acquittal
Addressing the packed courtroom Justice Irizarry went to great lengths to explain why she accepted the plea bargain made between the prosecution and the defence.
She made mention of the points raised by the government in the sentencing memorandum, which were relied on by Prosecutor Shannon Jones in court, and which said, among other things, that government agreed to a plea bargain with Khan in part to protect information about other targets of the investigation.
Jones noted that the plea agreement helped them to keep under wraps, the information from cooperating witnesses about the other targets.
The prosecutor explained that the disposition of the case without the need for a lengthy or costly trial would conserve substantial judicial and US government resources, while avoiding litigation risks for both sides. She noted that the US government had anticipated calling numerous witnesses at the narcotics trial, many of whom are Guyanese citizens. In anticipation, the prosecution took steps to protect the witnesses from retaliation or intimidation by not disclosing their identities, relocating certain individuals and delaying or avoiding deportations to Guyana.
The Probation Department, according to Judge Irizarry, had recommended that Khan be sentenced to at least 25 years for his crimes. However, Jones, addressing the concern of the department and the letter writers pointed out that the challenge was not between 15 years and 25 or 40 years but rather it was between 15 years and a possible acquittal. She pointed out that after he fled the US Khan insulated himself in Guyana and as such all the evidence they had against him was from cooperating witnesses, many of whom were convicts themselves and drug traffickers caught in the act.
Judge Irizarry said she was in agreement with the position taken by the government and pointed out that a sentence in a plea agreement is by law imposed pursuant to the plea bargain and not the sentencing guidelines.
“Once the court has accepted the plea, the court cannot deviate from the sentencing agreement. This has fairly been the law for close to two decades,” the judge said.
The judge also disclosed that before she accepted the plea she had requested that the government provide her with the basis for the plea bargain and having presided over the case and the many motions prior to the plea, she accepted the government’s justifications.
‘Tossing of a dice’
Justice Irizarry noted that one of the reasons the United States is admired in some ways is because it is a country that deals with the rule of law- that is, there is equal justice for everyone regardless of who that person is, whether they are legal or illegal residents.
“Nothing that we do here today would ever be able to address the suffering that may have been caused by Mr Khan’s action but I must agree with his lawyer Mr White that 15 years is a very long time,” the judge said.
She also noted the point raised by Jones that Khan had insulated himself in Guyana and she felt strongly that much of the evidence presented by the government could not have been used in the trial simply because the crimes were committed in Guyana.
Further, the judge noted that the US is a country of law and a country which has the oldest constitution in the world and every time a crime is committed the accused has a right to a trial by jury. The jury would have had to hear evidence from Khan’s accomplices and she described the scenario as the “tossing of a dice” when the prosecution has no such witnesses. It is left all up to the jury and whether they find the witness credible, the judge said adding that she has seen many cases where everyone was sure the accused would have been convicted but the jury acquitted because they did not find the witnesses credible.
She also pointed out that the gun-running case was 16 years old and that it was hard enough to get a conviction on a recent case much less one that old when no one really knew where the investigating agents were since some of them may have retired while others may have gone to the great beyond.
And to make matters worse the judge said, many of the witnesses may have no longer wanted to testify following the witness tampering charges. She gave the example of a cooperating witness fleeing the jurisdiction in the middle of a trial she was prosecuting. She said those were some of the challenges the government faced.
Khan’s optimistic expression did not change when the sentence was handed down and he again smiled brightly and waved to his relatives as he left the courtroom. His wife shouted out to him, “I love you Rog.”
Khan was charged with conspiring to import cocaine into the US over a five-year period from January 2001 to March 2006. The US government had said he was the leader of a cocaine trafficking organisation based in Georgetown. It also asserted that he was able to import huge amounts of cocaine into Guyana, and then oversee exportation to the US and elsewhere.
The US government had charged that a significant amount of the cocaine distributed by Khan went to the Eastern District of New York for further distribution. As an example, it cited a Guyanese drug trafficking organisation based in Queens, New York, which it said was supplied by Khan. The Queens organisation was said to have distributed hundreds of kilos of cocaine in a two-month period during the spring of 2003.
Khan had resided in the US and committed crimes in both Maryland and Vermont. On January 6, 1992 he was convicted in Montgomery County of breaking and entering and theft. While he was on probation for that offence, he was arrested in Burlington, Vermont for receiving and possessing three firearms while being a convicted felon. He was subsequently indicted and was released on bail in November 1993. He promised to obey all conditions of his release but fled to Guyana in 1994 in order to avoid prosecution and as a result there is an outstanding warrant for him, for violating the conditions of his partial release and an outstanding warrant in Rockville, Maryland for violating the conditions of his probation.
Witness tampering
Khan’s troubles deepened last year when he, Simels and Irving were hauled before the courts and charged with conspiracy to tamper with witnesses relating to the drug trial. Simels was accused of making an alleged US$1,000 payout and having discussions about “eliminating and neutralizing” witnesses. He and his assistant allegedly had numerous discussions with a US government informant, to locate certain individuals close to the case and to get them to rescind statements, not testify against Khan, or even to be eliminated.
In her affidavit to support the charges against Khan, Simels and Irving, Special Agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Cassandra Jackson had said that during Khan’s drug trial the government would seek to establish that he was the leader of a “violent drug trafficking organisation [the Khan organisation] that was based in Georgetown, Guyana, from at least 2001 until his arrest in 2006.” She had said that Khan and his co-conspirators obtained large quantities of cocaine, and then imported the cocaine into the Eastern District of New York and other places for further distribution. “Khan was ultimately able to control the cocaine industry in Guyana, in large part, because he was backed by a paramilitary squad that would murder, threaten, and intimidate others at Khan’s directive. Khan’s enforcers committed violent acts and murders on Khan’s orders that were directly in furtherance of Khan’s drug trafficking conspiracy,” Jackson had said. She said the paramilitary squad was referred to as the ‘Phantom Squad’.
These same accusations had last year led Justice Irizarry to rule in favour of an anonymous jury for the drug trial. The judge was of the opinion that the dangerousness of Khan, as alleged by the prosecution, was a fact worth considering since according to one of the government’s confidential sources the ‘Phantom Squad’ Khan was associated with was responsible for “at least 200 extra-judicial killings” in Guyana from 2002 to 2006.
While Khan was not charged with crimes considered violent in nature, his involvement with and leadership of a criminal organisation indicated his propensity for violence, the judge had pointed out. In making her ruling, the judge had said there was evidence of Khan’s willingness to tamper with the judicial process since he admitted that in 1993 he successfully evaded federal prosecution in Vermont for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon by absconding to Guyana while on bail. That action, the judge said, indicated his ability to tamper with the judicial process in the US.
Execution-style killings down
The US government had also accused Khan of murdering boxing coach Donald Allison, who was gunned down outside his Agricola home and Dave Persaud who was shot and killed outside the then Palm Court Restaurant and Bar on Main Street. Khan denied the charges, stating Allison had been supplying the Buxton criminals with guns and that national cyclist, Tyrone Hamilton, knew who had killed Persaud.
In Guyana, the police appeared to have accepted that Khan was responsible for the execution-style killings. In November 2007, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said that since Khan’s capture, execution-style killings in Guyana had dropped considerably from 43 in 2006 to 12 in 2007.
Persaud said Khan had a group of men who worked with him while he was here, but since he had been locked up the men had all gone in different directions. “We believe that Mr Khan was involved in narcotics trafficking and since his arrest we have seen a fragmentation of his gang instead of them being one place they are all over the place,” Persaud had declared. When asked why–since the police knew Khan operated a gang and had men–the force had not gone after them, Persaud said charges were laid against individuals based on evidence. He had said the police were investigating Khan’s gang.
Prior to Khan’s arrest, one of his associates had told this newspaper that Khan never got involved in the actual operations. The associate, who had asked not to be named, said the drug accused used his bodyguards and a network of armed informants–the ‘Phantom Squad’–made up of mainly ex-convicts and ex-policemen.
Khan had boasted that when a US diplomat was kidnapped and taken to Buxton he had met operatives from the American Embassy here on a daily basis and provided them with information and hard evidence. This subsequently led to the issuance of an arrest warrant for prison escapee Shawn Browne, who was thought to have masterminded the abduction. Browne was cornered in a house a few days later and shot dead by the police.
Stabroek News was told that Khan had employed ex-convicts and policemen, paid them and had them gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the five escapees Browne, Troy Dick, Andrew Douglas, Dale Moore and Mark Fraser. The quintet had made a bloody escape from the Camp Street Prison on February 23, 2002, and that had been the catalyst for a wave of crime that the country had never before experienced. During this period some 21 policemen were shot dead and numerous civilians murdered. This period also saw scores of policemen leaving the job; confidence in the force was at an all-time low.
he was indeed the robin-hood, helping eliminate the terrorist, and prevent the slaughtering of more innocent children in their beds
I hear you freespeech. However all good thing come to an end. Not To Worry though. We now know how to deal with lawless illegal uprising and mass murderers. There will be others when the govt cannot act to protect the citizens.
Freespeech, you dishonor the memory of Robin-hood my friend.
Was Roger honestly “eliminating terrorist” and “preventing the slaughter..” or was this dude simply positioning himself to become the most feared drug-lord in the country?
What’s more, Robin-hood was taking from the wealthy and giving to the poor, not killing off the competition and destroying lives with a drug empire.
Robin hood indeed freespeech,wake up and smell the coffee,His sentence will start,things will now change the trial is over, There is not enough money for him to be able to buy the friends he needs like he did in Guyana,those brothers will not betray each other in there for nothing,he now has the opportunity to show how good he is at taking out criminals,all you dreamers need to understand that his life is about to change,no ppp protection,not enough (drug) money,HE IS ON HIS OWN,with some of the worst FREEDOM FIGHTERS he has ever seen,ha ha ha he can help the prison system to get rid of the bad guys in there,ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
Freespeech, go reread Robin hood’s fantasy and delusional accounts and post again how Robin hood died.
The Guyana Government was liken on to the Sheriff of Nottingham, unable to seize the most clever bandit, Robin Hood.
In this case however, ends with a different twist. Robin Hood is captured by the US, tried and imprisoned for 15 years.
The tunnel vision experts would see it differently.
Thank you, U.S.A. Without your intervention this criminal would have been free to roam unfettered and untouched in Guyana, with full protection from the government and a wink and a nod from the police.
kudoes to you freespeech,
Notice though, nobody ain’t mentioning the other side of this issue that made Roger Khan possible. Without RK, lots more killings would be going on.
Well bia freespeech it looks like you’re under fire because you call Raja “Robin” but let me clear it up fuh yu.
Robin-Hood and his merry men used to live in Buxton from 2002 to 2006. There, they use to stand by and protect other brethrens who stopped car bus and truck fuh collect donations, never mind some people got burned with acid or beaten up, it was all for a good cause,,,then they happily used the mighty arrow and bow or better known as de AK, compliments of camp Ayangana, to collect more donations. Only problem was that it use to look like paghwah afterwards, red stuff(innocent blood) all over the place. Then came King Raja and his army,,,they quietly put Robin-hood and company to rest. Those who supported freeness and the killings of innocent people for their hard earned money are still vexed with Raja,,, Now Raja gettin punished because he ruined more than one sinister plan.
The End
CSingh..read this:
“Addressing the packed courtroom Justice Irizarry went to great lengths to explain why she accepted the plea bargain made between the prosecution and the defence.
She made mention of the points raised by the government in the sentencing memorandum, which were relied on by Prosecutor Shannon Jones in court, and which said, among other things, that government agreed to a plea bargain with Khan in part to protect information about other targets of the investigation.
Jones noted that the plea agreement helped them to keep under wraps, the information from cooperating witnesses about the other targets”.
Any illegal vigilantism should and will be dealt with in the strongest terms. No of these drug running criminals are above the law. The government is also culpable for allegedly allowing such dastardly acts of violence.
He was a druglord, alleged murderer and now a convicted felon getting his just rewards. He was no better than those he allegedly sought to ’save’ Guyana from. In fact while he ’saved’ Guyana from their crimes, he force-fed and gagged Guyana on his own crime spree.
Crimes should be fought by law-enforcement. Absent that, then outside help should have been sought. Turning to a criminal was never the answer, nor was it the answer when the PPP govt turned to Bernard Kerik. Khan,Kerik, they looked towards criminals, that’s what the PPP govt did.
Convicts the PPP govt dealt with and convicted felons they got. Rule of law, not lawless government.
I am glad the judge sentenced him to 30 and not 15 years. That way he could rot in jail for 15 years straight.
freespeech. Do not distort history. Robin Hood took from the rich and gave it to the poor. RK was a drug lord whose criminal enterprise was used by the corrupt PPP government to neutralise so called criminal elements. In return they turned a blind eye to his drug dealings. Airlines plying the GT/NY route, paid heavy fines in the USA and went under because they were used to transport his drugs. That’s why it’s so costly to fly to Guyana. It’s a case of who was using who. Act One, Scene One, has just ended. The curtains have not come down. It will be hell to pay when your Robin Hood begins Act Two, Scene One.
15 years “TOO LIL BIT”, the judge should give him life.
Very said to say but, Ramsammy, Jagdeo and you freespeech
can’t help Robin Hood. I hope he don’t see the day light
again, he create too much havok in Guyana.
Yes “freespeech”! A “robin-hood” – eh! One who had his “getaway horse” (SPY EQUIPMENT, BULLET RESISTANT VEHICLE etc, etc facilitated (and, which were once “seized” by the GUYANA DEFENSE FORCE) as blogger here said”) “the Sheriff of Nottingham” (the Guyana Government!
There is a huge difference between a hero and a zero and in this case Roger could be described as nothing more than a – 0. His punishment is not sufficient (but we can live with that) for the crimes he committed but locally and international. I must praise the U.S government for jailing him because had he been in Guyana he would have gone untouched…and in this case we all need to thank Mr. Winston Felix for what he did to Khan. By the time he gets out a new administration will be waiting to deal with him as soon as he lands at Timehri International Airport.
This should be a constant reminder to all those who thrived and are thriving on the relationship they have with drugs, the same drug that destroys us mentally, physically, and emotionally…altogether it is destroying the human race.
To those of you who believe that 15 is not enough, just ask yourself why he got this amount…in order for you to be fed you have to be hungry, and the DEA was hungry for information.
To all the families and friends of those who lost their lives innocently during the 2002 jail break, I must say that in many ways justice was served yesterday. God is always watching us and no bad deed goes unpunished. Those who helped, assisted or supported this man sooner or later will be punished for all the tears and blood that was shed.
To those who supported Khan and are still supporting him by calling him a hero…i mean zero…Now is the best time to go to Church and turn your lives to God.
I agree with you totally.
he will always be a hero for those who suffer at the hands of the taliban, and SFH please do not day dream because there will be no new adminstration, i mentioned it before to you that no one at this stage is better than the PPP, THE PPP IS HERE TO STAY, AND THEY WILL BE BACKED BY THE USA GOVT AS THEY ARE THE MOST QUALIFIED PEOPLE EVER GOVERNMENT THE REPUBLIC OF GUYANA.
I like this post.Like you,I believe Khan’s troubles doesn’t end there but rather lie ahead.Apart from having to survive in a lonely and dangerous environment especially because of who he is and around murderers,rapist and drug dealers down for life(and nothing to lose),there is no gurantee he wouldn’t be facing murder one charges when he gets out.So many things could change in 15 years and that is what should scare Khan.But first he must survive FEDPEN and among men who are always in a bad mood because many of them know they are not going home.Looking at some of them the wrong way could be a death wish.Snitching a no no.
For the sake of his survival,I hope he finds a gang.I doubt that he will
i agree with you 100%
Like amen-ra, I agree with you 100% too freespeech!
WE know the difference between a hero and a zero…A hero is like Roger Khan, a ZERO IS YOU.
The two of you have the same thing in common…you both brought shame and disgrace to our Country and countrymen.
In Guyana we call that “Pot calling Kettle black.”
Lambada,
Man, I could feel the pains in SHF bones when you tell him those facts. I could see him scringe as I read your blog. True, true too true, the PPP ain’t going no way.
Like amen-ra, I agree with you 100% too lambada.
Correction.
Sandman, your best vever. I knew you had it in you..LOL ISNM
“Macky DOG”……Just like your blogging name that’s what you will always be, a blind man who knows the truth and yet still preaches lies. Roger Khan and I would and could never have anything in common, I have never allegedly kill hundreds of innocent Guyanese, sold/shipped cocaine into North America nor have I and will never be spent a day in any U.S Federal prison.
If that is what being a hero is all about the Superman got it all wrong!!!!!!
So Gavin you see nothing lasts forever…..and the PPP will not last the next 15 years.
SH,if going to church would change anything it would only save those who are clinging on to life hopelessly.
Raja did what ur GDF and GPF couldn’t do, take out most of the clueless FREEDUMB FIGHTERS.If you think the objectives and actions of the FREEDUMB FIGHTERS were “justifiable”,I would humbly understand.
… yo “homeless fum de street” it’s nat rakit ciance fuh anybadi to see why u would agree totally !…. gwan suh wid yuh street mentality aredi…..
This is the begining of the end for this government. The great USA is sick and tired of the current regime which is threatening their national security with it’s drug running. The current government will be a mere conversation peice in the not to near distant future. Changes are in the cards.
I hope you feel the same about Blackie. Remember him? The one whose coffin was draped with the National Flag of Guyana.
We should all go to Church, Sandhurst…..there are many Guyanese who think Andrew Douglas, Dale Moore, Mark Fraser, Shawn Browne, Troy Dick were heroes. They killed and maim the prison guards amoung the hundreds of lives that they tormented… oh dont forget Blackie..his coffin was draped with the Guyana flag…Oh and Fineman who slaughtered poor children in their sleep…..the Buxton Freedom Fighters who were killers , raped their own, burn their fellow villagers homes etc.
Sandhurst, RK was ONE slice of the messy pie….dont forget that!!!!!
Mackydoy, shame on u for exhilarating yourself for what self-confessed drug lord Roger Khan did to his rival drug dealers to facilitate his illegal empire. I am thinking different of you my friend.
What church do you go to?Noboy knows. It could be a no name one.
Deon, what the hell I gotta do with blackie, he was a robber and he died in a hail of gunshot….you better go and come again.
In that “SandHurst First” said the following in part: Re: “There is a huge difference between a hero and a zero and in this case Roger could be described as nothing more than a – 0. His punishment is not sufficient (but we can live with that) for the crimes he committed but locally and international. I must praise the U.S government for jailing him because had he been in Guyana he would have gone untouched……”
Is the world forgetting that it was the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) that had this notorious group on the run so much so that they ended up in Suriname. And, instinct suggest that this dude got lucky that he ended up in U. S. Custody as “real” Guyana Defense Force (GDF) Soldiers do not stand for stupidness; not in Burnham’s time; and, not now. So, just give them some more time to get their act together.
And, just remember that – “Big Brother (” Navy Reestablishes U.S. 4th Fleet”) Will Always Watching”
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=36606
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=38366
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11862
“Macky Dog” for your sake you were very lucky Stabroek News didn’t publish my Blag, very lucky Gavin.
Re: “Man, I could feel the pains in SHF bones when you tell him those facts. I could see him scringe as I read your blog. True, true too true, the PPP ain’t going no way….”
Well, they went somewhere in 1964 as history will tell us. So, who to trust “history” (which is always right); or, “you” who appear to be delusional.
Re: “Sandman, your best vever. I knew you had it in you..LOL ISNM”
As the story goes “You Can Take A Man Out A Country… But, You Can’t Take A Country Out Of A Man”. So, it must be that “You Can Take de “SandMan” Out Of “AYANGANNA”… But, Ya Can’t Take “AYANGANNA” Outa De Man.
“Drum Roll” For SandMan.
Crimson SunSet.
Re: ““Drum Roll” For SandMan.
Crimson SunSet….”
Remember, the Bible Always say “Judge Not For Ye Shall Not Be Judged….”!
So, just whom will be facing the “Judge” in Round Two (the Final Judgement!!!
Sh,only if you knew the power/value of “0″,you would be happy to rephrase your little essay.
Kaiteur Gold,
Sorry, I think you misinterpreted what I meant by saying “The PPP ain’t goin no way…”. I actually meant they are not going to be replaced by another govt.
The Taliban are people fighting against a corrupt government and the locals protect them throughout Afganistan by hiding them and allowing them to use their homes to launch attacks against government forces. I am not sure people on this blog want to equate the so called criminals that Roger Kahn killed with the Taliban.
Witch Doc, do you mind telling us the value of 0 as it relates to your hero who is a zero or a naught??
Can you remember what Mahatma Gandhi said about those with the “naught”?
Re: “i mentioned it before to you that no one at this stage is better than the PPP, THE PPP IS HERE TO STAY, AND THEY WILL BE BACKED BY THE USA GOVT AS THEY ARE THE MOST QUALIFIED PEOPLE EVER GOVERNMENT THE REPUBLIC OF GUYANA….”
How about saying/telling this to the U. S. Navy, U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the British Military Intelligence (MI6), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)……; and, if I were you I would not be too quick to say the things that you are saying because certain unforeseen “sea-changes” (tsunami) give persons “heart attacks”; or, they are swept away at sea never to be heard from again!
Hmmmmm….No photo of the “brainy angel” Wadell complete with gaduation robes, SN ?…..
What about overdone paragraph, no editing today, Reddy?…..
Hey Reddy/Faria…one down, many more to go. Your government is rife with corruption and fraudlent activities. There is change in the wind. A new government is on the horizon. Read the statement pasted below.
Addressing the packed courtroom Justice Irizarry went to great lengths to explain why she accepted the plea bargain made between the prosecution and the defence.
She made mention of the points raised by the government in the sentencing memorandum, which were relied on by Prosecutor Shannon Jones in court, and which said, among other things, that government agreed to a plea bargain with Khan in part to protect information about other targets of the investigation.
Jones noted that the plea agreement helped them to keep under wraps, the information from cooperating witnesses about the other targets.
US DID EHAT THEY HAD TO DO . GUYANA MUST DO THE SAME WHEN KHAN IS RELEASED. HE MUST FACE TRIAL IN GUYANA FOR ALL THE CRIMES COMMITTED WHERE HE WILL GET THE APPROPRIATE SENTENCE AND BE PUT AWAY. KHAN’S crimes against the US are” conspiring to import cocaine into the US over a five-year period from January 2001 to March 2006.” The US courts has done their job and the rest is left to us.
Meanwhile based on the outcome of the US case Guyana can now move to seize Khan’s assets and all assets associated with his drug trafficking.
To all my fellow bloggers, keep it real. Let this be a lesson to all of you who seem to think that the US is the world’s policeman. I’ve said it here before; the US has too many troubles of its own to be bothered with a tiny South American country which is of no military strategic or economic importance to it. So all of you should stop hoping and praying for Uncle Sam to rescue and clean Guyana.
Eventually, if Khan survives, and if Maryland or Vermont does not grab him for “unfinished business” he might return to dear old Guyana one day. But who knows whether the Guyanese government or the political climate of that day will be favorable to him setting up shop once again. When that time comes many of you will still be blogging during your work time while hoping that your bosses don’t catch you.
The opposition will need to regroup and pin their hopes on another strategy.
csingh,do you people even care about all those people killed weather it was by bandits or rk and his phantoms,or all you care about is politics,you are so obsessed with this ppp,pnc thing that you are all blind to anything else,it is just so pathetic,get a life will you?
Gay123 it was always political, what you think all that protest over Ramsammy was all about, now that you dreams have been dashed, you can join us in the FREE ROGER COMMITTEE.
guy123, Guyana is in a state of war with the criminal element. When a criminal kills another criminal, Jagdeo doesn’t loose any sleep over it. Me neither! Do you??
I know you have been paying attention to the articles and comments here on SN. Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed the opposition using this RK debacle to destabilize the GOG? Don’t tell me you have not noticed that the AFC and PNC are using this story to score political points and for political jockeying. I am just responding to what they instigate.
If you choose to disagree, look at SN’s yesterday news section for the following headline for just one example:
Corbin submits motion for Roger Khan enquiry again
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 51 Comments
Uncle Joe, you have it right. Fifteen years will roll by quickly and I am sure that he will be on good behavior – possibly continuing his activities from jail with help from the outside. For sure he must have provided some damning information to the DEA – time will tell. Let’s see if this “powerful child of God” can walk on water all the way back to GT to complete his unfinished business!!!! Some folks should rest while they can for soon they will sleep with eyes wide open.
So csingh, if AFC and PNC is jockeying and wanting to destablise, what are you doing for the peep,pee $ putup.
This is not about opposition, because a number of persons do not trust governments. It is about people who see right and wrong conduct and hope that some day you will also see the light.
CSingh…your ramblings are usually silly and incoherent and unintelligible. Supporting a criminal element, regardless of
purpose is a crime in itself.
Decoder your inane logic will only work in countries like the USA, Canada, and England. In a third world country where there is no one entity that enswers to truth and justice, the citizens are left to fend for themselves. I will always support a private militia that will fill the void of law enforcement whose hands are tied by opposition parties. Somebody has to protect the innocent.
Nonsense Uncle Joe ! Khan is already a broken man. Fifteen years in the Fed Pen is hard time . It breaks you down. Name one person who has served such time and is the same man as before. Name one drug kingpin who has lived to continue his hustle after the Feds pinched him and served such a sentence in the US prison.
LONG LIVE ROGER — YOU WILL BE HOME SOON MY BROTHER.
He will be home a changed individual 50 something.
Telling others not to trust Governments and guiding others on the straight and narrow path.
Also cautious of his so-call friends. That is what prison will teach him.
Yes he will be home in Guyana to face trial for the crimes that he committed against the people of Guyana,and by then the ppp will no longer be the owner of the country,Guyana will be in better hands,will you still think it will be a good idea for him to go home then mo?And I do hope he lives long,the prison in the US is not a bed of roses……
Our prayers are with you Roger, and for an early release.
hopefully……long live indead….
a true guyanese i call him
“hold ya head up short man”
we gona be home soon and set everybody stright
actually the prison sys in the us is a bed of roses second roger NEVER commeted a crime against the guyanese plp or in the republic of guyana……..
“LONG LIVE SHORT MAN”
JACK, YOU THINK ROGER CAN READ THIS??????
Gtbeat, where he is presently, not just prayers he will be needing from you, but answered prayers.
Such is life, life in this sense means not what you planned, but what happens outside of the plan.
Enough time for him to reflect on life and its vagaries, people you considered your friends and denying you when the time comes for a shoulder.
Some of your friends claim not to be losing sleep while you going down, others said they never saw you, just to save themselves, that can be painful and again such is life.
It can be even more painful for his mother, if she had never spoken to him. Just a simple word like, “stop what you are doing”, could have avoided her the grief she suffered yesterday.
Don’t tell me she never heard of the things he was doing, exploiting the Guyana Government weakness to establish a drug empire. But it could have been worst for her, again such is life.
gtbeat; god does not answer the prayers of hypocrites!
Despite, the efforts of some men and women to make him (god) into their (hypocritical and corrupt) own image!
In fact, the prayers of hypocrites results in more disappointments.
So, be careful how you pray!
MO! The Federal Pen is no cake walk. The last person off the bus is confronted by those who want your shirt or your shoes. Mr. Khan problems has just begun. The best of the best broke down and snitched on their buddies . Check out Nikky Barnes, Frank Lucas, Raful Edmonds et al. Hard time is what it is. Apart, the inmates would be aware of his activities in Guyana.
Roger Khan Mother, Gloria Khan, described her son as a
“Powerful Child of God”, Oh boy.
And a cousin of Khan said that after his return to Guyana the Government should pay him and give him a pension.
I think that Roger Khan cousin “maybe right” if the PPP should
remain in office, he may get that and more.
I THINK HIS MOTHER IS TOTAL RIGHT, HE FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE THAT IS TO LIVE IN PEACE WITHOUT FEAR OF THE SO CALLED FREEDUMB FIGHTERS.
All of his know assets in Guyana should be confiscated by the state by this pee pee pee inept govt
Roger Khan imported cocaine (white death) into Guyana and then exported it to other countries and yet many guyanese , at home and abroad , worship him and refer to him as a hero .
He constructed houses with illegal drugs money and guyanese purchase them and are living in comfort and style as a result of the illegal drugs trade . The pee pee pee govt has condoned Roger Khan’s illegal activities and Guyana should be suspended from the CARICOM . The headquarters should also be relocated to another Caricom state . The Cooperative Republic of Guyana is a FAILED STATE .
take care of the man living in the old car, your inept govt is losing on tourist money, soon will be a failed state.
ours is growing on solid foundation not on sand.
Wiggins go look fuh ilegal guyanese and report dem…yuh gun get bounty…yuh cant meck money hey…
Now that Khan has been sentenced for crimes against the US, and there is evidence that crimes against Guyanese in Guyana have been comitted, I hope that in 12 years when he is back in Guyana, he would be charged with those crimes which includes murder.
Like You Cannot Count!!!
the depth of lawlessness in Guyana will be further reinforced when the Guyana government security forces and the Financial monitoring systems allow Khan’s enterprise to flourish in Guyana awaiting his return to pick up from where he left off.
Khan must be brought to trial in Guyana so that justice is served.
Meanwhile “seize dem assets!”
No, No these assets will be held in a safekeeping locker awaiting his return.
Argument and fighting will break out over who misused what.
I agree with you one hundred percent. Those assests SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN SEIZED. The Guyana govt is indeed lawless.
This government is lawless indeed. And for those who see Roger Khan as a hero, I say shame on You
I REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS ABOUT THIS CRIMINAL WHO WE TAXPAYERS ARE GOING TO BE FEEDING AND HOUSING. WHEN HE GETS OUT, HE IS GOING TO BE EVEN MORE RICH. AND AS FOR HIS “INABILITY TO PAY A FINE”, THAT IS THE MOSE PRECIOUS THING I EVER HEARD. ONLY IN THE US CAN THESE CRIMINALS CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS CRAY YEAR AFTER YEAR. WHY NOT ASK HIS GUYANESE FRIEND IN HIGH PLACES ALL OVER GUYANA TO “HELP HIM PAY”. GUYANA IS BECOMING A BIGGER JOKE EVERY DAMNED DAY.