Inmate Plotted to Kidnap, Assault Former Nassau County Prosecutor: DA

An inmate at an upstate New York maximum security prison pleaded not guilty Tuesday to plotting to kidnap and assault a former Nassau County District Attorney prosecutor who prosecuted him, according to the NCDA.

The NCDA received a tip that convicted murderer Chandran Nathan, 59, an inmate at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, allegedly offered to pay a third-party up to $10,000 to abduct the former prosecutor off the street, place him in handcuffs and assault him.

Nathan, who was indicted and arraigned Tuesday, pleaded not guilty to second-degree criminal solicitation. He faces up to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison if convicted.

“This case is a reminder of the difficult and dangerous jobs that law enforcement professionals do every day,” Singas said in a press release.

Nathan requested to have the former prosecutor beaten about the body, but not around his face, and waterboarded, if necessary, the DA said. The inmate wanted the prosecutor to give videotaped statements explaining that many confessions he used in his career were coerced and tainted, and to mention a number of cases he prosecuted so it would not be known who did the kidnapping, the DA said.

Nathan was convicted in 1994 of killing a 20-year-old medical student in Manhasset, which caused the man’s fiancee, who Nathan was obsessed with, to kill herself by jumping out of her terrace on the sixteenth floor of her Queens apartment, the New York Times reports. The Times reported the murder was a “fit of jealousy” over the couple’s engagement.

The kidnapping case was investigated by members of the Nassau County Police Department’s DA Squad and NCDA detective investigators with assistance from the New York State Department of Corrections.

Nathan was remanded and is due back in court on Thursday, Dec. 15.