A brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez should be sentenced to life in prison for running a “state-sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy” with the nation’s current leader, US federal prosecutors say in documents filed before a sentencing hearing scheduled next week.
Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman, was convicted in October 2019 of participating in a conspiracy to traffic in cocaine to the United States that involved the use of machineguns.
His sentencing, which has been delayed multiple times, is scheduled for Tuesday in New York.
A Honduran woman holding a sign outside the federal court in Manhattan in New York while Tony Hernandez’s case was in session [File: Claudia Torrens/AP Photo]Documents filed by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York late on Tuesday, lay out Tony Hernandez’s criminal history, as well as the points where it overlapped with his brother, who served as the leader of Honduras’s National Cong
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez received cocaine shipments from Colombia and duped the US anti-drugs agency, a Honduran former drug lord told a federal trial in New York on Monday.
The Associated Press is reporting the JoeBama administration is planning to use the Dallas Convention Center to house illegal border crossers. Within the AP article you might note the following claim: “
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Saturday directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help manage and care for children crossing the border.” However, due to the implications of the admission, Joe Biden has
not declared a federal emergency…. that means any FEMA activation is moot.
In order for FEMA to carry out action their first mandate requires the issuance of a federal declaration of a national emergency. As of this morning JoeBama has not made that federal declaration, so the stories of the FEMA activation are essentially useless.
A Honduran drug clan leader testified in a New York court on Thursday that he paid Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez $250,000 in bribes to secure government contracts as well as protection from capture and extradition to the United States.
“It was for protection so neither the military nor preventative police would arrest me or my brother in Honduras and so we would not be extradited to the United States,” Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga said.