HOW DID BVI PREMIER ANDREW FAHIE'S CO-DEFENDANT, OLEANVINE PICKERING MAYNARD SERVE ONLY ONE YEAR OF A NINE YEAR SENTENCE ON COCAINE CHARGES?

If you know how Rule 35 Sentencing Reduction works in Federal Court, cooperating defendants often receive up to a 50% cut in their sentences. Rarely do we see more; the huge (65%) sentence reduction handed out in Miami to the Swiss banker/money launderer MATTHIAS KRULL was obviously payment for his testimony against a major Venezuelan money laundering operation, but that is the rare exception.

OLEANVINE PICKERING MAYNARD, the BVI port manager who received a nine year sentence in the ANDREW FAHIE drug & money laundering sting, served only a single year of her sentence, before being released. A 90% reduction in her sentence is quite extraordinary, and it most certainly was not as the result of her trial testimony against Fahie. We must assume that she gave evidence implicating other senior Caribbean government officials, and they either not been indicted yet, or more likely, their are sealed indictments being held until the targets are physically within the jurisdiction of the United States, such as a quick trip over to the US Virgin Islands, which is sovereign American territory.

We will be watching for the case that Oleanvine, and her son KADEEM MAYNARD, who also drew a major sentence reduction, spawned. I imagine there are some nervous government officials in the BVI with sleepless nights these days.