Charlemagne Trial Pushed Back to December at the Earliest, Defendants Cite Need To Review “Voluminous Discovery”

The trial of David and Sasha Charlemange has been pushed back to sometime after December 1, following an order from U.S. Magistrate Emile Henderson III. The Charlemagnes were arrested in mid-June, accused of orchestrating a $4 million fraud against Housing and Urban Development involving the storage and management of wood that was earmarked for hurricane relief. Mr. Charlemagne, the Department of Education Director of Maintenance, and his wife, were charged with government program fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy alongside former Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority Chief Operating Officer Darin Richardson. All three pleaded not guilty to the charges.‌ The trio is accused of orchestrating a scheme where Mr. Charlemagne was profiting off the storage of the wood as his company, D&S Trucking, would collect vastly inflated annual fees from VIHFA for the work. However, at the same time, the wood was being stored rent-free at the disused Alexander Henderson Elementary...