A U.S. judge ordered the early release of a Macau property developer serving a prison sentence in the United States, citing the new crown Epidemic as a consideration.
U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick in Manhattan, New York, on Wednesday ordered Macau property developer Ng Lap Seng to be released early so he can return to Macau.
Ng Lap Seng was sentenced to four years in prison in 2017 for bribing two U.N. ambassadors, including former U.N. General Assembly President John Ashe, to enlist their support for a multibillion-dollar conference center he wants to build in Macau.
Ng Lap Seng has now served 34 months of his sentence. Judge Broderick on Monday ordered a “compassionate release” of Ng on the grounds that Ng’s health had deteriorated and said Ng might be safer in Macau than in a Pennsylvania prison with hundreds of new coronavirus cases.
Prosecutors asked the judge to reconsider the early release decision on the grounds that Ng Lap Seng had already received the Modena vaccine and was expected to receive a second dose on March 26, so there was no reason to release him.
Judge Broderick refused to accept the prosecutor’s request. He said during a hearing, “I decided to exercise certain humane.”
Ng Lap Seng is expected to be delivered to the custody of immigration officials after the second dose of vaccine and then flown back to Macau. In an email, Ng Lap Seng’s attorney said Broderick “understands the human harm his change of heart would cause to Mr. Ng, who was first told he could go Home and then told the court changed its mind,” and that “this additional trauma is not something he would allow to happen. “
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