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Son of limo company owner connected to horror crash that killed 20 is arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide
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A son of the owner of the limousine company behind Saturday's horrific crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York has been arrested.
Nauman Hussain, 28, was taken into custody on Wednesday morning and charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Hussain was arrested during a traffic stop on Interstate 787 in Waterville.
New York State Police Superintendent George Beach said Hussain had previously been issued written violations by the NYSP and the Department of Transportation noting that the 'driver he hired should not have been operating the vehicle' from Saturday's crash.
'That vehicle was placed out of service by the DOT and should not have been on the road,' Beach said during a press conference.
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On Wednesday it was revealed that Scott Lisinicchia - who was behind the wheel of the 2011 Ford Excursion before the crash - was cited for operating the same limo without a proper license by a state trooper on August 25.
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He was previously arrested alongside brother Shahyer in 2014 when they were stopped by police on Route 787 in Cohoes.
Authorities said neither brother had proper identification and both adamantly claimed that 'they were each other', according to the Albany Times Union.
Police discovered that Shahyer had a revoked New York State driver's license with 28 suspensions. Hussain had a valid license with an extensive suspension and conviction list that had been cleared.
The brothers have been ticketed more than 70 times and Shahyer had used Hussain's identity numerous times.
Shahyer was charged with felony aggravated unlicensed operations and misdemeanor criminal impersonation and conspiracy. Hussain was charged with misdemeanor false personation and conspiracy.
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In March the vehicle was cited for a whopping 14 safety violations and the DOT said the limo had to be taken out of service until the issues were fixed.
Among the citations were the fact that 25 percent of the car's brakes were defective, the rear emergency exits did not operate properly, and a hydraulic brake line was dangling and able to make contact with a tire.
A September inspection once again turned up a number of violations, and noted that many of the issues found in March had not been fixed.
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Meanwhile, details have emerged of Shahed's past ties to the FBI.
Shahed arrived in the United States in 1994 after fleeing his native Pakistan where he had been arrested for murder.
After his father bribed local police to let him go, Shahed fled the country, using a British passport to leave Pakistan, enter Moscow and then travel to Mexico.
From Mexico, he entered the US through El Paso in Texas and then traveled to Albany.
Shahed then contacted an immigration lawyer who got him legal status by applying for political asylum, which enabled him to start working for the DMV as a translator.
There, Shahed started a racket where he offered prospective drivers guaranteed pass-marks in their road tests or safety quizzes for a fee by ensuring they went to corrupt examiners. In 2002, the FBI arrested him for the scam.
Rather than go to jail, Shahed took a plea deal which involved him working as a confidential informant and spent the next several years recording other conversations in the DMV for their benefit, incriminating his friends and colleagues
Four years later, after filing bankruptcy and buying his son an Audi with money he claimed he'd been given by Pakistan's then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, he bought the hotel in Gansevoort which became the Crest Inn.
Shahed then was put to work by the FBI to infiltrate mosques, specifically in Newburgh, New York, and look for what he described as 'radicals'. The FBI paid him a salary of $96,000 for the work.
His work in the Newburgh mosques, particularly the Masjid al-Ikhlas led, in part to the arrests of James Comitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen.
They plotted to plant bombs at synagogues in the Bronx - Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center - and they also plotted to shoot down military planes at Stewart Air National Guard Base.
However valuable his undercover work was, Shahed came under scrutiny as a witness and reliable informant during the trial when it was suggested he had turned off his recording equipment during crucial moments of conversation with the suspects.
There were also claims of entrapment and even the judge who convicted the four men ruled in her verdict that Shahed's behavior as an informant was 'troubling'.
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