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New York State Police say the operator of the limo company involved in last weekend's deadly crash is charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Sunday, October 7th 2018, 9:25 AM PDT
Updated:Wednesday, October 10th 2018, 11:06 AM PDT
New York State Police say the operator of the limo company involved in last weekend's deadly crash is charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Nauman Hussain was taken into custody following a traffic stop on a highway near Albany.
Saturday's limo crash in rural Schoharie killed 20 people.
State officials say the limo involved in the wreck failed an inspection last month and shouldn't have been on the road.
The limo company had said problems with the vehicle had been corrected.
Prestige Limousine has also been criticized for employing a driver lacking a commercial license.
Operator of Prestige Limo, Nauman Hussain, has been taken into custody. Charges are pending. An update will be posted on .
— NewYorkStatePolice (@nyspolice) October 10, 2018
Meanwhile, the wife of a limousine driver involved in a New York crash that killed 20 people says her late husband expressed concerns about the company's vehicles.
Kim Lisinicchia tells CBS in an interview broadcast Wednesday that her husband, Scott, stated several times that he needed a different vehicle but then trusted the company's assurances that its "cars were all right."
Prestige's lawyer, Lee Kindlon, says safety issues had been corrected. He says the driver might have misjudged his ability to stop at the bottom of a hill Saturday in Schoharie, New York.
Lisinicchia says her husband was "in excellent health" and drove a tractor-trailer for 20 years.
Flags on New York state property will be lowered to half-staff to honor the 20 people killed in a limousine crash, among them three state employees.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday the flags would be lowered from Thursday through the victims' burials.
Cuomo said "the entire family of New York mourns" for them.
The victims were killed when a stretch limousine hit a parked SUV Saturday in Schoharie. It's about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the state capital in Albany.
One victim, Patrick Cushing, worked in the state Senate's technology office. Another, Amy Steenburg, was a nurse who worked for the state Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs.
A third, Brian Hough, taught geology at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Court records show that the Shahed Hussain who owns that motel gained fame in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks for infiltrating Muslim groups for the FBI.
He posed as a terrorist sympathizer in at least three investigations.
In one case, he helped convict men accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues.
Albany-area attorney Dana Salazar, who represented Hussain in a civil case, says she knew of his background as an informant but didn't have knowledge of his limo business.
Calls to the limo company went unanswered.
Cuomo said that the limousine involved in the crash had failed a state inspection and should not have been on the road.
He said Monday in Manhattan the vehicle had been inspected by the state's transportation department just last month.
Cuomo also said the driver didn't have the appropriate license and the stretch limo had been rebuilt in a way that violated federal law.
He said the company, Prestige Limousine, "has a lot to answer for."
Calls to the limousine company rang unanswered Monday.
The crash Saturday in the town of Schoharie killed two pedestrians and 18 occupants of a limousine, including four sisters. Relatives said the group was headed to a birthday party.
Democratic State Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara says the vigil will be held on Monday evening in Amsterdam.
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