Inmate Sentenced For Plotting To Kidnap Former NCDA Prosecutor

An inmate at an upstate New York maximum security prison was sentenced to more prison time on Friday for plotting to kidnap and assault a former Nassau County District Attorney prosecutor who prosecuted him, according to the NCDA.

Convicted murderer Chandran Nathan, 59, an inmate at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, was sentenced to serve three to six years in prison. He is currently serving a sentence of 37-1/2 years to life for the 1993 killing of a 20-year-old man in Manhasset.

Nathan pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal solicitation at his sentencing on April 12. In November 2016, he pleaded not guilty to the same charges at his indictment.

“Any effort to harm or intimidate our prosecutors—current or former—will be met with serious consequences, and this defendant’s foolhardy plot to have a former prosecutor kidnapped and assaulted in a desperate effort to get himself out of prison only earned him more time behind bars,” Singas said in a press release.

The NCDA said they received a tip that Nathan 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 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, of Richmond Hill in Queens, 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.

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