Crime

Former Schneider Hospital COO Amos Carty Jr. Acquitted on All Counts Following V.I. Supreme Court's Reversal of Embezzlement and Fraud Conviction

In a 71-page opinion which dissected and repudiated the 2019 verdict that resulted in the conviction of former Schneider Regional Medical Center chief operating officer and legal counsel Amos Carty Jr., the V.I. Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the judgement which found Mr. Carty and others guilty on a combined 44 counts of embezzlement, fraud, grand larceny and violations of the Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, among other related charges. Mr. Carty was convicted on Nov. 14, 2019 along with former Schneider chief executive officer Rodney Miller, and Peter Najawicz, the former chief financial officer. The trio had been tried on similar charges in 2011 but a deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial. In Nov. 2019, they were found guilty on all counts. At the time, virtually the same direct and circumstantial evidence and first-hand witness accounts in the second trial yielded an outcome vastly more satisfying for V.I. Attorney General Denise George, who at the time ...