Prosecutors in the case of disgraced former state Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, whose conviction was largely due to evidence provided by Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad, who is also awaiting sentence, are asking that he be sentenced to seven or more years on his felony convictions of making a false statement and obstruction of justice.
According to a report in the Times Union, in a memo filed last Thursday, prosecutors have asked Judge Dora Irizarry to sentence Sampson to 87 months in prison — the high end of adjusted federal sentencing guidelines — when he appears in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday. Sampson has asked for a year and a day in prison or 18 months with half served as home confinement.
Among the arguments prosecutors made is that Sampson abused the
