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Husband of Heastie’s chief of staff gets prison for cocaine trafficking, tax evasion
Updated May 11, 2021;
By Brendan J. Lyons | Times Union, Albany
Albany, N.Y. The husband of state Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie’s chief of staff was sentenced Thursday to 76 months in prison and ordered to pay $136,000 to the Internal Revenue Service for his earlier guilty plea to cocaine trafficking and tax evasion charges.
Orlando Dennis, 32, who was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States in 2008, had been described by federal prosecutors as a $25,000-a-year bakery delivery driver who had been living a lavish lifestyle from drug trafficking.
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A Jamaican native who is married to the chief of staff to State Assembly Speaker, Carl Heastie, in the United States, was sentenced on Thursday to 76 months in prison for cocaine trafficking.
Thirty-two-year-old Orlando Dennis was also ordered to pay US$136,000 (approximately J$20.6 million) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges.
In January, the Jamaican pleaded guilty to the latter charges, as well as to conspiracy to import cocaine through a deal that was offered by state prosecutors.
Dennis, who moved to the United States from Jamaica in 2008, has been married to Jevonni Brooks-Dennis since 2017.
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