US cricket captain and former Guyanese player Steve Massiah is hoping for a plea deal with US authorities on mortgage charges by January 13, 2012.
According to court documents seen by Stabroek News, on December 16, 2011 Massiah and the US government jointly requested from the presiding judge that the period from December 13, 2011 to January 13, 2012 be excluded in computing the time within which an indictment must be filed or information provided as the parties are engaged in “plea negotiations which they believe are likely to result in a disposition of this case without trial”. The judge in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York granted the request.
Massiah and two others were charged in November in New York with defrauding banks and mortgage companies by
