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Expert May Not Testify About Barbados Law; Disclosure of 'Brady' Material Not Compelled

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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER   A three-count superseding indictment, dated August 1, 2019, charges defendants Donville Inniss (“Mr. Inniss”), and two others, Ingrid Innes (“Ms. Innes”), and Alex Tasker (“Mr. Tasker”) (collectively, “defendants”) with conspiracy to commit money laundering (Count I), in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1956(h) and money laundering (Counts II and III), in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1956(a)(2)(A). (Second Superseding Indictment (S-2) (“Indictment”), ECF No. 50, dated August 1, 2019.) These charges allege that from in or about and between August 2015 and April 2016, Mr. Inniss leveraged his position, as the Minister of Industry and as a member of the Parliament of Barbados, to engage in a scheme to accept approximately $36,000 in bribes from Ms. Innes, then-CEO of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd. (“ICBL”), and Mr. Tasker, then-Senior VP of ICBL, in violation of Barbadian law, and to launder that money to and through the United States. (Id. 10.) Furthermore, the charges allege that Mr. Inniss, using his official position as Minister of Industry, caused the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (“BIDC”), an agency of the government of Barbados and over which Mr. Inniss exercised authority, to renew two insurance contracts with ICBL (“2015 Contract” and “2016 Contract”). (Id.

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