{"id":21787,"date":"2012-05-18T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21787"},"modified":"2012-05-18T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:15:39","slug":"crooked-politicians-ordered-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/crooked-politicians-ordered-to-court","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Politicians Ordered To Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15760\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15760\" title=\"chalmers-misick\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chalmers-misick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chalmers-misick.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/chalmers-misick-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chalmers &#39;Chal&#39; Misick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After two days of sufficiency hearings, High Court judge Madame Justice  Margaret Ramsay-Hale ruled that attorneys Chal Misick and Melbourne  Wilson and former Cabinet minister McAllister \u201cPiper\u201d Hanchell will have  to stand trial in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The judge gave her decision with respect to two counts for Hanchell, two  counts for Wilson and seven counts for Misick on Wednesday, but she  returned to court on Thursday to rule on a particular indictment in  relation to Misick who yesterday reported sick and was absent.<br \/>\nThe three men must return to court on July 10, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Hanchell faces charges of conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to  receive bribes in relation to the Salt Cay development, while Wilson\u2019s  charges are for conspiracy to defraud and money laundering in connection  with a condominium development at North West Point.<\/p>\n<p>Misick\u2019s indictments were for conspiracy to receive bribes, conspiracy  to defraud and money laundering, all relating to the Dellis Cay project,  the North West Point development, the Juniper Hole land sale in Middle  Caicos, Joe Grant\u2019s Cay and the purchase of a Gulfstream jet for his  brother, former Turks and Caicos Islands Premier Michael Misick.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21788\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21788\" title=\"mcallister-hanchell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mcallister-hanchell.jpg\" alt=\"Mcallister Hanchell\" width=\"160\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mcallister-hanchell.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mcallister-hanchell-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mcallister Hanchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Judge Ramsay-Hale found that the evidence presented to her was  sufficient for the accused to be tried before the Supreme Court on the  allegations brought.<\/p>\n<p>Misick was represented by UK-based barrister Colin Awlott, while  Hanchell\u2019s lawyers were Laura Maroof and Mark Fulford. Wilson\u2019s lawyer  was not present. The lead prosecutor was Andrew Mitchell, QC, who was  assisted by Robert Rinder.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Source:\u00a0 Turks &amp; Caicos Sun<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in the Turks &#038; Caicos Islands ruled that attorneys Chal Misick and Melbourne Wilson and former Cabinet minister McAllister &#8220;Piper&#8221; Hanchell will have to stand trial in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,93,32,168,234],"class_list":["post-21787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-politics-2","tag-turks-and-caicos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}