US EditionJury selection to begin in South Florida for 5 charged in 2021 assassination of Haitian president
Four men face life sentences for conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti's president in a plot involving foreign mercenaries and $175,000 financing, prosecutors said.
- On March 9, U.S. federal court in Miami began jury selection for four men charged with conspiring to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including Ortiz, Intriago, Veintemilla, and Solages.
- Prosecutors say the plot was planned and financed from South Florida, where conspirators initially favored Sanon as a replacement, court documents reveal.
- Authorities say about two dozen foreign mercenaries, mostly Colombians, attacked Moïse's home near Port-au-Prince, killing him on July 7, 2021, with funding from Worldwide Capital and about 20 Colombian nationals retained by CTU.
- The defendants face possible life sentences if convicted, five guilty pleas are serving life, a separate defendant drew nine years, and Sanon's case was severed for medical reasons.
- The case now spans prosecutions in the U.S. and stalled probes in Haiti, where gang violence and threats have hindered investigations involving 20 others, including 3 Haitian officials.
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Jury selection to begin in South Florida for 5 charged in 2021 assassination of Haitian president
Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of five men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
The jury selection began on Monday at the federal trial in Florida against four men accused of participating in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
The trial of four men accused in the U.S. of participating in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse began Monday in a Miami federal court with jury selection, in a case where five other people have already been sentenced to life imprisonment. Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla, and James Solages are accused of conspiring to kidnap and murder Moïse, carried out by a group of mercenaries, 17 of them Col…
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