Limo operator avoids prison time in New York crash that killed 20
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The operator of a limousine company was spared prison time Thursday in a 2018 crash that killed 20 people when a catastrophic brake failure sent a stretch limo full of birthday revelers hurtling down a hill in upstate New York.
Loved ones of the dead excoriated Nauman Hussain, 31, as he sat quietly at the defense table during a hearing that was held in a high school gymnasium to provide for social distancing among the many relatives, friends and media members attending. Hussain, who operated Prestige Limousine, had originally been charged with 20 counts each of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in what was the deadliest U.S. transportation disaster in a decade.
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