By Joe Mahoney
The Daily Star
ONEOTA, N.Y. — Convicted murderer Ganesh “Remy” Ramsaran, already serving 25 years to life in prison, was hit with a new 5-to-15-year term Wednesday after pleading guilty in Chenango County Court to offering a corrections officer $100,000 to help him slip out of the county jail.
Ramsaran, formerly of South New Berlin, is in prison in connection with the December 2012 killing of his wife, Jennifer, the mother of the couple’s three children. Though he denied having any role in her death, he admitted during his trial that he carried on an adulterous affair with one of her married girlfriends, who had two children of her own.
Chenango District Attorney Joseph McBride said that while the sentence for the second-degree bribery conviction will be served concurrently, it will help ensure Ramsaran remains in prison should he be successful in the pending appeal of his murder conviction.
Ramsaran, a work-from-home program manager for IBM, had reported his wife missing to authorities on Dec. 11, 2012, claiming she had gone Christmas shopping at a Syracuse area mall. Her frozen body was discovered in February 2013 down an embankment off a remote road in Pharsalia.
Ramsaran, 40, is housed in the maximum security Auburn Correctional Facility.
If his murder conviction appeal is rejected, his earliest potential release date is May 22, 2038, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Relatives of Jennifer Ramsaran and members of a support group called Justice for Jennifer were among those who turned out for Ramsaran’s sentencing.
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