A man from New York who was engaged in a nationwide cocaine trafficking conspiracy was sentenced on May 29 to 275 months in prison, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a June 17 statement. [source]
Brahmananda Prasad, 65, from Queens, engaged in a “coast-to-coast cocaine-trafficking conspiracy” that involved regularly flying to California to meet with cocaine suppliers and purchasing several kilograms of the drugs, the DOJ said.
“Prasad then shipped the cocaine back to New York, directing others to pose as representatives of his ostensibly legitimate shipping company to evade detection,” the department said.
In the East Coast, the drugs were handed over to multiple sub-distributors across New York and Maryland, who then went on to sell them in Delaware and other places….