Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman Friday to life in prison for his role in helping Colombian mercenaries get weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

Rodolphe Jaar, 51, is the first person to be convicted and sentenced in what U.S. prosecutors have described as a broad plot by conspirators in Haiti and Florida to reap lucrative contracts under a new administration once Moïse was out of the way.

An additional 10 defendants are awaiting trial in the United States.

Jaar, who has dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship, previously had been an informant for the U.S. government and had been convicted of drug trafficking a decade ago. He pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States, and to providing material support resulting in death.

Federal Judge José E. Martínez handed down the sentence at a 10-minute hearing at the federal court in downtown Miami. Jaar received the maximum sentence he faced despite pleading guilty and pledging to cooperate with investigators in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence.

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Moïse was ki1led on July 7, 2021, when assailants broke into his private home in Port-au-Prince. He was 53 years old.

In addition to Jaar, the other defendants in Miami are: former Colombian soldiers Mario Palacios and Germán Alejandro Rivera García; former Haitian Senator John Joel Joseph; Haitian-Americans James Solages, Joseph Vincent and Christian Emmanuel Sanon; American Federick Joseph Bergmann; Colombian Arcangel Pretel Ortiz; Venezuelan-American Antonio Intriago, and the Ecuadorian-American financier Walter Veintemilla.

The Haitian government also has arrested more than 40 people for their alleged role in the murder, including 18 former Colombian soldiers.

Judge Martínez set a hearing for Aug. 21 to hand down a possible fine.

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Jaar entered the hearing room handcuffed and with shackles on his ankles, wearing a prisoner’s beige shirt and pants. He was wearing a face mask and his graying hair was neatly cut. He listened to the judge’s ruling with his head bowed.

The businessman declined to make statements to the judge and has the right to appeal the sentence within two weeks. His lawyer, Frank Schwartz, told The Associated Press after the hearing that Jaar has not yet decided whether to do so and declined to comment further.

Jaar arrived in South Florida in January 2022 after being detained in the Dominican Republic, and has been held in federal detention ever since. According to U.S. authorities, he voluntarily agreed to be tr@nsferred to Miami to face the charges against him.

According to charging documents, the conspirators initially planned to kidnap the Haitian president, and later changed the plan to ki1l him instead. Plotters had hoped to win contracts under a successor to Moïse, investigators allege.

Jaar was responsible for supplying weapons to Colombian mercenaries for the operation, court documents say. Several of the former South American soldiers also stayed in a house controlled by Jaar, according to the charges.

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The man in question

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Print his name, show his picture

Also what is the connection between the Colombian mercenaries and the Haitian president?

the fall guy

zerogate said 🔗 "A man" Print his name, show his picture Also what is the connection between the Colombian mercenaries and the Haitian president?

US Govt/Big Pharma...

zerogate said 🔗 "A man" Print his name, show his picture Also what is the connection between the Colombian mercenaries and the Haitian president?

Mercenaries

DominicanLou said 🔗 The man in question

Dudes a fall guy, The US will never arrest their own agents.

GodBody said 🔗 Dudes a fall guy, The US will never arrest their own agents.

Out of curiosity, how do you know it was US agents? Asking for a friend.

Teddy KGB said 🔗 Out of curiosity, how do you know it was US agents? Asking for a friend.

Cause he most likely saw the same doc that I did.

The one where the cia infiltrates countries and places only the people they want to be a leader.

I forgot the name of it.

But everyone that watches it forgets that they haven’t stopped doing that sh1t.

So Colombian guys came into Haiti to ki1l prez and were caught before escaping? Nice

They need to send him back to Haiti and let Haiti deal with him for ki1ling their prez

What about his CIA handlers?

Teddy KGB said 🔗 Out of curiosity, how do you know it was US agents? Asking for a friend.

My family are Haitian. They know but my fam aside you ask any Haitian and they'll tell you the US has been behind damn near every single Haitian Leader since Duvalier aka Papa Doc

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GodBody said 🔗 My family are Haitian. They know but my fam aside you ask any Haitian and they'll tell you the US has been behind damn near every single Haitian Leader since Duvalier aka Papa Doc

U.S. has had its hand up Haiti's a$s for years.

GodBody said 🔗 My family are Haitian. They know but my fam aside you ask any Haitian and they'll tell you the US has been behind damn near every single Haitian Leader since Duvalier aka Papa Doc

My family is Haitian too, and I have heard all the stories as well. Funny thing is all the bad stuff that happens it’s never any Haitian’s fault. I’m tired of hearing about it. Big problem with our people is we should be like Ukraine asking for all types of stuff and money, but instead still talking about the US did this and that so we don’t want their help.

THExTAKEOVER said 🔗 Cause he most likely saw the same doc that I did. The one where the cia infiltrates countries and places only the people they want to be a leader. I forgot the name of it. But everyone that watches it forgets that they haven’t stopped doing that sh1t.

Y’all watch too many documentaries

You know the day Moïse was murdered that his wife was also in the residence and she wasn't ki1led and probably witnessed the murder. Where is she now? Did she stand trial? The US government got her out of Haiti and is hiding her in the United States.

DominicanLou said 🔗 The man in question

DominicanLou said 🔗 The man in question

I know a fall guy when I see one fu#k outta here:they know why they sent him

Why is Lucy Hale the thumbnail?

dude reminds me the KGB dude from snowfall

like what are you dude?..hispanic?..arab?...works for Colombia but last name is jaar? lol..dude was built to be a puppet

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Jaar, who has dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship, previously had been an informant for the U.S. government

Haiti is a refueling spot for drug planes coming from Columbia to the U.S. The last estimate was more than 4 billion dollars worth of drugs per year are on those planes. Alot of powerful people are behind this. This dude is definitely a fall guy.
The U.S. and U. K has been raping smaller melanated countries since their existence. It's really just par for the course.

zerogate said 🔗 "A man" Print his name, show his picture Also what is the connection between the Colombian mercenaries and the Haitian president?

The us govt in the middle for refusing the vaccines and promise to get back the natural resources being exploited by hillary clinton brother and there foundation where haiti has plenty of gold silver and copper its multiple layers to this