Having served a one-year sentence for bulk cash smuggling, disgraced US-based Guyanese pilot Khamraj Lall is fighting his continued incarceration on new money laundering and drug trafficking charges and has argued through his lawyer that he is neither a flight risk or a violent person.
Lall was sentenced in 2016 by US District Judge Jay A. Garcia-Gregory to one year in prison and his private jet and over half a million US dollars seized from him were forfeited to the US government after he had pleaded guilty to bulk cash smuggling.
At the time of his sentencing, Lall also faced charges both in New Jersey and in New York for alleged money laundering and drug trafficking.
While he was defending the charges in New York during the year he was incarcerated, the cases in New Jersey had not progressed, according to his lawyer Michael D’Alessio, Jr. However, in August of this year, the prosecution in New Jersey filed a new indictment, this time charging Lall with four crimes. He is now facing a conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to structure funds, conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, all allegedly committed between April, 2011 and November, 2014.
