Limo failed inspection

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The limo failed the NY State inspection and the driver didn't have the proper passenger endorsement on his license. I would think that the owner of the limo that allowed it to be driven, resulting in the tragic crash could be held on 20 charges of criminally negligent homicide seeing has how his actions directly resulted in the death of 20 people.

I would say that if he is charged, tried, and convicted in the deaths of 20 people, he probably won't see the outside of a prison for many years.

One now has to wonder WHY the limo was failed and declared unsafe. I know with charter buses and school buses, the inspector places a large and bright red sticker over the driver's windshield if they fail inspection that can only be removed by the inspector after the vehicle is found to have been repaired and has been re-inspected.

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I drove two cars a long time ago that would never pass an inspection. I knew how I could get the renewal without having to have the inspection. When I was able to afford it I bought a new car and didn't worry anymore.

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Yep. There was a guy at the base when I worked there that would take your registration and money at lunch time and come back with a fresh sticker. He knew someone in Rome that would give you a sticker without ever seeing the vehicle. I have always driven newer late model vehicles in late years so I never needed to worry about my trucks passing muster. I actually welcomed the inspection. If something is wrong with my truck, I want to know about it.

There is no inspection law here in Tennessee. I see people driving around with one headlight, cracked windshields, bald tire, wheels that wobble because the front end is messed up, and I even have seen someone with a black plastic trash bag over their driver's side window. It really pays to have uninsured motorist insurance because some drivers don't have any. You have to show proof of insurance in order to register you car the first time. After that you can let the insurance lapse and renew the registration by mail no questions asked.

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Owner of limousine that crashed, killing 20, was FBI informant who testified in terrorism trials




The owner of the limousine company linked to the deadliest transportation accident in nine years is no stranger to the law.



Shahed Hussain, who owns Prestige Limousine, served as an FBI informant in two terrorism cases after pleading guilty to a federal fraud charge in 2002.



A state official confirmed Hussain’s bizarre history to The Albany Times Union.



Now, Hussain faces the prospect of an avalanche of lawsuits for the crash that killed 20 people, as well as possible criminal charges.



On Monday, two days after the crash, Gov. Cuomo confirmed that the driver of the limo did not have the proper license and that the vehicle had failed an inspection just last month.


“The owner of the company had no business putting a failed vehicle on the road,” Cuomo said.



Court records show that federal prosecutors credited Hussain, a Pakistani immigrant, with providing “substantial assistance” in 2006.



At the time, prosecutors said he’d assisted in a fraud and drug case involving 12 individuals. He’d also testified in the terrorism sting of an Albany imam, Yassin Aref, and Bangladeshi pizzeria owner Mohammed Hossain. The pair were convicted of laundering money for a fake terrorism plot set up by the feds and each sentenced to 15 years in prison.



Hussain also served as an FBI rat in the controversial case of the Newburgh Four.



In that case, Hussain posed as a wealthy radicalized Muslim who befriended four men eventually convicted of plotting to shoot down U.S. military planes with a Stinger missile and set off bombs at Jewish targets in Riverdale area of the Bronx. The government faced criticism for the case because Hussain was seen as organizing the scheme and urging on the participants. Nevertheless, the four men, James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were convicted, thanks in part to Hussain’s testimony.



The work as an FBI informant paid well, according to “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBIi's Manufactured War on Terrorism.” The book by journalist Trevor Aaronson reported that Hussain used the money he earned from the FBI to buy the Crest Inn Suites & Cottages in Gansevoort.



The seedy inn also served as the business address for Hussain’s limo company. A longtime resident of the inn said that for at least two years Hussain kept limos on the property and seemed to care little about safety.



“As long as they get money, they don’t care who’s getting In their vehicles,” the resident, Laken Prosser, 31, said.



Efforts to reach Hussein were unsuccessful Monday. Prosser said he’d recently returned to Pakistan.


www.aol.com/article/news/2018/10/08/owner-of-limousine-that-crashed-killing-20-was-fbi-informant-who-testified-in-terrorism-trials/23554567/

He is probably out of the Country by now