Former owner of limo company at center of deadly 2018 upstate crash sentenced to 5 to 15 years
NEW YORK -- A former manager of a limousine company was sentenced Wednesday to five to 15 years in prison for his role in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York.
Nauman Hussain was convicted of 20 counts of manslaughter earlier this month. Prosecutors said that he intentionally failed to follow maintenance regulations for the stretch SUV.
It was packed with people celebrating a birthday when the brakes failed, sending it speeding downhill, and crashing in Schoharie in 2018.
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Parents and other relatives addressed the court before sentencing.
"Even with a lengthy sentence it will never sustain the loss that we have had to endure and continue to endure with the loss of our boy," one said.
"It makes me and my family sick to know that a $2,000 brake repair would have avoided this catastrophe," another said.
"You, Nauman, knowingly and willingly put that limo on the road on Oct. 6, resulting in 20 deaths," another added.
All 18 people in the limousine were killed. The limo hit the two other victims when it went out of control.
