Hallmark prides itself on producing “Greeting Cards for All Occasions,” but I challenge them or any other company to design a Father’s Day card appropriate for a parent who couldn’t be bothered to visit his children in the four and a half years in which one of them has faced 20 counts of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter.
Here’s one more twist: The charges facing your son are the direct result of your decision to hand off management of some of your wormier business assets, including a decrepit stretch limousine, when you moved out of the country.Â
I’m not sure if Nauman Hussain will spend too much time worried about hurting the feelings of his absent father, Shahed Hussain, who according to the available facts has remained in Pakistan since before the Oct. 6, 2018, limo crash in Schoharie County that killed 20 people. Nauman is far more likely to be concerned about his upcoming sentencing after a jury last week convicted him on the manslaughter counts for recklessly failing to keep the deadly 31-foot Ford Excursion in good repair and under proper regulation.
Throughout this regional trauma, Shahed has remained utterly silent — the enigma in the corner of the frame — except for second- or third-hand statements and a handful of facts tucked into legal filings. He has never responded to outreach from Times Union reporter Larry Rulison, who has spent years trying to answer some of the riddles surrounding Shahed’s overlapping careers as an alleged participant in a fake driver’s license scam; an FBI counter-terrorism asset; a beneficiary of completely bizarre real estate transactions (the family bought a house in Loudonville for $90,000 in 1998 and after it was gutted by fire in 2003 sold it half-repaired for $450,000); and finally as the proprietor of Wilton’s Crest Inn Suites & Cottages and Prestige Limousine.
Nauman’s defense attorney Lee Kindlon…
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