In
Honduras Case
Bid to Sever
Bonilla Redux
As Motion to
Unseal JOH
Affidavit In
Docket
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 25 – 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.
[Espanol aqui]
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: "As confirmed at the
January 23 appearance, Mr.
Bonilla is prepared to testify
at trial, in pertinent part,
that: (i) while the other
charged defendants are or may
be members of the charged
conspiracy, Mr. Bonilla
himself was not; and (ii) the
government’s witnesses have
colluded and conspired to
wrongfully accuse Mr. Bonilla
to exact revenge against Mr.
Bonilla for his previous work
as an official with the
Honduran National Police."
Full letter on Patreon here.
We'll have more on all this.
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