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Peter Morgan’s sentencing postponed again
By Dale Andrews
For the third time after he entered into a plea deal with United States Prosecutors, Guyanese businessman, Peter Morgan, has had the date for his sentencing postponed.
Peter Morgan
Morgan was scheduled to be sentenced yesterday by Senior Judge Edward Korman in the US Feredal Court House at Cadman Plaza, Downtown Brooklyn.
He will now have to wait until December 29 at 14:00 hours to know how long he will spend in prison for cocaine trafficking, according to Paula Marie Susi, Case Manager in the judge’s chambers.
Yesterday, at the courthouse, the courtroom doors were tightly shut and there was no listing of the sentencing hearing on the court calendar.
Morgan was initially scheduled for sentencing in October but this was postponed to November 30. The date then changed to December 2. There is now this postponement to three days before the end of the year.
Sources informed that the postponement usually indicates that the Defence and Prosecution are still locked in negotiations regarding the sentencing.
One source said that Morgan may be providing the Prosecution with additional information, which is likely to impact on the prison time he will serve.
And with time served already, the likelihood that he will receive less time than his offences warrant, is increasing. Morgan, an auto sales dealer and car racer, pleaded guilty in June this year, waiving his rights to an appeal. He faces a minimum of 10 years imprisonment or a maximum life sentence.
The Guyanese businessman confessed to conspiring with David Narine among others to import cocaine into the United States of America from Guyana between December 2001 and August 2003.
Morgan, 42, was nabbed by US agents in Trinidad in March 2007 while he was in transit at the Piarco International Airport from Panama.
He was extradited to the US on August 23, 2007 after he withdrew a last minute appeal against the extradition.
This is not the first time that Morgan has been implicated in criminally related activities. In December 1999, the businessman was charged following an arms bust at the John Fernandes Wharf.
That bust related to the unearthing of 14 guns including semi automatic weapons, pump action rifles and revolvers in a container consigned to Morgan by ranks of the Guyana Police Force and Customs Officers.
The law enforcers had also recovered 3000 rounds of ammunition in the container, which was shipped from Miami, Florida by one Nandkkumar Budhan.
On October 16 last, another Guyanese, Shaheed Roger Khan, received three 15-year sentences for cocaine trafficking and witness tampering charges after he too entered a plea deal with prosecutors.
Meanwhile another Guyanese, former Guyana Defence Force Captain, David Clark, who was to be one of the main witnesses in the Khan trial will face a US judge tomorrow to know his fate on drug related charges.
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