New York state Assemblyman William R. Nojay, a Pittsford Republican, is one of four defendants about to stand trial for criminal fraud in the southeast Asian country of Cambodia.Court proceedings are scheduled to begin on the Fourth of July, according to a news report Friday from Phnom Penh.Nojay, who has become a prominent supporter of presidential contender Donald Trump, told the Democrat and Chronicle Friday that he expects to be exonerated.Nojay and three other men who formed a company to process and export rice from Cambodia stand accused of obtaining a $1 million investment from a wealthy Cambodian, then shutting the company down. The news report from the Khmer Times said the money was wired to a bank account controlled by Nojay but never invested in the company, Akra Agricultural Partners.One of Nojay’s co-defendants is Sichan Siv, a prominent native of Cambodia who grew up in this country and became a White House aide and the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush.The prosecutor in the case said Akra Agricultural Partners was an empty shell and the endeavor was a fraud, according to the Khmer Times story.Lawyers for the defendants, however, have consistently denied the allegations and call the case a simple business deal gone bad.Nojay… Read full this story
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