{"id":6036,"date":"2012-01-13T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2012-01-13T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:51:26","slug":"father-mother-and-daughter-sentenced-to-combined-418-years-in-prison-for-conning-caribbean-immigrants-out-of-1-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"Trini Scam family sent off to prison in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><b>Mom, dad &#038; daughter ripped off immigrants<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Christina Carrega<br \/>\nJanuary 12, 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/queens\/scam_fam_sent_off_to_prison_8QRsjwSBHdPHHOcDlOSMQK\">nypost.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>A seething Queens judge walloped three members of a crooked Richmond Hill family yesterday, sending them upstate to serve a combined 418 years for a brazen immigration and real-estate scam.<\/p>\n<p>The mom, dad and daughter \u2014 dubbed \u201cThe Ramsundar Gang\u201d by Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder \u2014 paid a shocking price for defrauding 19 families of $1.8 million over six years.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHolder said his harsh sentences are nothing compared to the street justice the Ramsundar family would have faced back in their native Trinidad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou and I know, that if you did this fraud and paraded and strutted it in your own country, you would have probably been hacked to death,\u201d Holder told the family, which immigrated from Trinidad in the \u201990s.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/queens\/scam_fam_sent_off_to_prison_8QRsjwSBHdPHHOcDlOSMQK\">Full Article : nypost.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><big><b>Father, mother and daughter sentenced to combined 418 years in prison for conning Caribbean immigrants out of $1.8 million<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><b>Queens judge calls real estate-immigration con artists &#8216;most despicable gang of criminals&#8217; he&#8217;s ever seen in court<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Thomas Zambito \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/father-mother-daughter-combined-418-years-prison-conning-caribbean-immigrants-1-8-million-article-1.1004895?localLinksEnabled=false\">New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\nWednesday, January 11 2012<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Father. Mother. Daughter. All thieves.<\/p>\n<p>A Queens judge Wednesday hammered a family of con artists with a combined 418-year prison sentence for duping fellow Caribbean immigrants out of $1.8 million of their life savings.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder slammed the Ramsundar family \u2014 daughter Shantal, 23, and parents Shane, 52, and Gomatee, 48, \u2014 as \u201cthe most despicable gang of criminals to ever sit in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou and I know that if you did this fraud and paraded and strutted around in front of your own people, in your own country, you probably would have all been hacked to death,\u201d Holder told the family, which hails from Trinidad. \u201cBut not in this country. Now it\u2019s your time to hear your return on your investment for your crime,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Ramsundar was slapped with a maximum 235-year sentence. His wife got up to 153 years and daughter 30 years.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/father-mother-daughter-combined-418-years-prison-conning-caribbean-immigrants-1-8-million-article-1.1004895?localLinksEnabled=false\">Full Article : New York Daily News<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom, dad &#038; daughter ripped off immigrants By Christina Carrega January 12, 2012 &#8211; nypost.com A seething Queens judge walloped three members of a crooked Richmond Hill family yesterday, sending them upstate to serve a combined 418 years for a brazen immigration and real-estate scam. The mom, dad and daughter \u2014 dubbed \u201cThe Ramsundar Gang\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trini Scam family sent off to prison in U.S.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,1,186,178,39],"tags":[85,1026],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-usa","tag-abuse","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6043,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}