by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 26 – After the president of Honduras' brother Tony Hernandez was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to life plus thirty years, on April 21, 2022 the ex-president himself, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was extradited to the US.
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On January 18, Inner City Press live tweeted the final pre-trial conference, thread.
On January 23, after lengthy ex parte sidebars, it was said JOH for the February 12 trial could get a second lawyer, at the US taxpayers' expense, by filing out a sworn affidavit claiming poverty. He did - and at 6 pm on January 23 Inner City Press filed with the Court a motion to unseal JOH's financial affidavit - as it requested, and got, for Tigre Bonilla. Now in docket - letter now on CourtListener here DocumentCloud here
On January 25, Pineda's lawyers put in a letter reiterating their request to sever the trial of Bonilla, who was also said to have a "file" on JOH. They state: "Mr. Bonilla is prepared to testify at trial -" Full letter on Patreon here.
On January 26, JOH's new lawyer, appointed contingent on JOH's still-sealed financial affidavit, reversed course and asked for a 90 to 120 day delay. Letter on Patreon here. We'll have more on all this.
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