SEALED INDICTMENTS FOR CORRUPT CARIBBEAN OFFICIALS? INDICATIONS FROM THE ANDREW FAHIE FILE PROVIDE US WITH CLUES

Andrew Fahie in custody.

Reporting on financial crime, in depth, with analysis, requires not just a legal education, but experience. There are often ongoing activities that prosecutors wish to keep out of the public eye, but deem necessary in the exercise of their function, which is to charge and convict the guilty. There are Red Flags, which indicate that something is going in behind the scenes, that they would prefer remain nonpublic for the time being.

ANDREW FAHIE , the former Premier of the British Virgin Islands, who was convicted of money laundering and narcotics trafficking, with his two co-defendants, are all serving their sentences in Federal Prison, which should be the end of the case, but there's something more one can glean from the docket: Six of the recent docket entries are sealed documents; why, if everyone has been convicted, is this the case?

Second, Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, Fahie's co-defendant, does not appear anywhere when you seek to learn her whereabouts in the Federal Prison System. Would she be in a country jail somewhere, or some other temporary facility, and for what reason? It is customary to be designated a location where one serves one's sentence after a conviction. Where is she now? She didn't testify against any threats to her safety which would require her placement in a secure, unknown corrections facility.

Third, we recall that she told undercover investigators that Fahie had prior experience in criminal activities in the BVI and the Caribbean ( a"little criminal"), and he himself said the case was not his "first rodeo." We all expected he would render Substantial Assistance to law enforcement before trial, to mitigate his ultimate sentence. He once admitted that he had first-hand information about others in the region who also engage in corrupt activity. has he changed his mind about cooperating, given his long sentence? Perhaps he has decided that he doesn't want to spend a decade behind bars.

Therefore, in my humble opinion, either there are sealed indictments against other corrupt government officials elsewhere in the East Caribbean, or the US Attorney is very close to securing them. Let the story play out, and we shall see if my deduction is correct.