Ed Ahmad probe leads FBI to former NY senator – NY Post

January 4, 2013 ·

The New York Post today said that

the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing former

New York State Senate Majority Leader, John Sampson

following its investigation of convicted Guyanese

mortgage fraudster Ed Ahmad.

Sampson is of Guyanese parentage

and has visited Guyana on several occasions.

He is the latest high-profile official to come under scrutiny

in a web that also ensnared Queens democratic congressman Ed Meeks

and convicted Ponzi artist Allen Stanford.

  John Sampson & Ed Ahmad

The Post today said that

the FBI has launched a criminal probe

of Senator Sampson of Brooklyn.

The report said that the inquiry focusing on

Sampson’s campaign fund-raising

arises from a broader federal probe into Meeks.

According to the report,

Ahmad is the common link

drawing the FBI from Meeks to Sampson.

Ahmad had been embroiled in a congressional ethics probe

for giving Meeks a secret US$40,000 loan

believed to have been a gift.

Ahmad pleaded guilty in October

in a separate, US$14 million mortgage-fraud scheme.

His sentencing date has not been scheduled

and the report said that

Ahmad is now cooperating with the feds.

Ahmad faces more than 10 years in jail

for submitting bogus information

on mortgage applications to lenders

and using straw buyers to hide his role in the scam.

He also faces more than

US$15 million in fines and restitution, the report said.

It added that like Meeks,

Sampson has strong ties to Ahmad.

Sampson was Ahmad’s lawyer in real-estate dealings

and had gotten into trouble over this representation.

The report added that the New York Department of State,

which licenses real-estate brokers and other corporations,

had admonished Sampson

for “notarizing a statement by one of Ahmad’s workers

without a valid notary license, which had lapsed.”

Details were sketchy about what the federal investigators

are looking for in Sampson’s campaign records, the report added.

Ahmad was a Sampson donor,

contributing at least US$2,000

to the senator’s campaign, records show.

FBI spokesman Martin Feely

said he could neither confirm nor deny

the existence of an investigation into Sampson or Meeks.

The report said that Sampson

was questioned by two FBI agents

who stopped him on a Brooklyn street

outside his gym late last summer.

The Post said that Sampson has repeatedly

declined its requests for comment.

Through a spokesman,

he declined to comment yesterday

when asked again about the probe.

Queens Borough President Helen B. Marshall is flanked by (l - r)

NY State Senator John Sampson,

NYC Council Member Leroy Comrie, 

Jagdeo business Partner Ed Ahmad

and Guyana's Consul General to New York The Hon. Brentnold Evans.

The FBI is continuing to probe Meeks

even though the House Ethics Committee

cleared him for failing for two years

to report a US$40,000 loan from Ahmad

that appeared to have been an interest-free gift.

The report said that the panel last month

concluded that Meeks’ inaction was “inadvertent” and

declined to rule on whether the loan was in fact a gift.

The revelation of the federal probe into Sampson

comes two weeks after he was

dropped as the Senate’s Democratic leader in a 19-6 vote.

He was replaced by Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Westchester.

The Post report noted that in 2010,

the state inspector general criticised Sampson

for tainting the bidding process

in the award of a contract

to run the Aqueduct casino in Queens.

Sampson, then the majority leader,

was cited for leaking a confidential bidding document

to the lobbyist for the politically connected firm AEG,

which subsequently won the contract.

The state pulled the billion-dollar contract from AEG

when the Inspector General’s Office launched its probe.

In 2011, the New York Post had reported

that Meeks was trying to get a cricket invitation for

Ahmad to the VIP Box

of now disgraced Antigua-based banker Stanford

while he had been at the height

of his T20 cricket extravaganza in the Caribean.

Ahmad’s plight has also raised uncomfortable questions former President Bharrat Jagdeo and the ruling PPP as he was the supplier of goods to the President at State House and also occupies the former headquarters of the PPP-aligned paper, The Mirror.

These are the Exact words from the article......

In 2011, the New York Post had reported that Meeks was trying to get a cricket invitation for Ahmad to the VIP Box of now disgraced Antigua-based banker Stanford while he had been at the height of his T20 cricket extravaganza in the Caribean.

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Ahmad’s plight has also

raised uncomfortable questions

former President Bharrat Jagdeo

and the ruling PPP

as he was the supplier of goods

to the President at State House and

also occupies the former headquarters

of the PPP-aligned paper, The Mirror.

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Ed Ahmad probe leads

FBI to former NY senator

– NY Post 

January 4, 2013 ·

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