Convicted Guyanese businessman Ghalee Khan was recently sentenced to just over nine years in prison by New York court Judge, Sterling Johnson Jr for drug trafficking and jumping bail.
Khan, who through his lawyer Michael P. Kushner, Esq has since filed an appeal against the sentence, had pleaded guilty after returning voluntarily to the US last year March, years after he had fled that country following his release from prison bail.
He received the bulk of his sentence, 72 months (equivalent to 6 years) for skipping bail while he received 37 months (3 years one month) on two counts of drug trafficking. The judge ordered that the latter two sentences run currently meaning Khan would only serve 37 months. The judge made it clear though that the six-year sentence is to run consecutively from that of the three-year sentence, hence Khan will have to spend nine years in prison.
