| Corruption sufficiency hearing postponed | | Print | |
| Written by Richard Green/richard@fptci.com | |||
| Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:04 | |||
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A sufficiency hearing set for Feb. 3 for former Turks and Caicos Islands government ministers, developers, lawyers and others facing corruption charges has been postponed until March 9. Chief Justice Edwin Goldsbrough has informed prosecutors and defendants that a hearing will be held Feb. 3, but it’s to handle administrative matters only. A sufficiency hearing will be held for government prosecutors to convince a judge that there is enough evidence to proceed with trials. Former Deputy Premier Floyd Hall and his wife, Lisa, are charged with conspiracy to defraud the government for accepting bribes from developers. Richard Padgett is charged with bribery involving the aborted Third Turtle development, and Jak Civre is charged with bribery involving the Seven Stars resort. Former government ministers Jeffery Hall, Lillian Boyce and Samuel Been are charged with conspiring with others to defraud the government by distributing Crown land for profit. Quentin Hall, who is Floyd Hall’s brother, and Earlson Robinson, who is Lillian Boyce’s brother, are charged with accepting proceeds from the transactions. Attorney Melbourne Wilson is charged with money laundering in those transactions. Attorney Chal Misick, brother of former Premier Michael Misick, is charged with laundering bribes allegedly paid by developers of Dellis Cay and Joe Grant’s Cay. Many of the details of the allegations came to light during a Commission of Inquiry in 2009 that led the U.K. to suspend elected government in this overseas territory, take control under a British governor and launch investigations into allegations of widespread corruption of elected ministers and others.
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