ALBANY — U.S Rep. Elise Stefanik says she wants the FBI to brief her a second time on its handling of Shahed Hussain, a longtime undercover informant for the bureau who operated the unauthorized limo business involved in the 2018 limo crash in Schoharie that killed 20 people.
And Stefanik specifically wants to talk to the FBI agents who know Hussain, who left the U.S. for Pakistan about seven months before the disaster, leaving his son Nauman in charge of the business.
Nauman Hussain, 33, is scheduled to go on trial Monday in Schoharie County Court on 20 counts each of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter for his alleged role in the tragedy, considered the worst highway transportation disaster in at least a decade.
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Shahed Hussain was never charged in the case. Prosecutors have placed all the blame on his son, arguing that he neglected to repair the brakes on the 31-foot stretch Ford Excursion that was carrying 17 friends from Amsterdam to a birthday party in Cooperstown on the afternoon of Oct. 6, 2018.
The limo’s driver, who also died in the crash, lost control of the Excursion as it descended a steep section of Route 30 in rural Schoharie County.
The white Excursion, which weighed nearly 7 tons when fully loaded with passengers, sailed through an intersection going more than 100 mph and crashed into the parking lot of a popular gift shop and cafe, killing two bystanders. Investigators have blamed the crash on massive brake failure.
Stefanik, whose district includes…
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