More details emerge in court about drug allegations under Aristide.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 03:21PM
TheSpook
Is US trying to retroactively justify Aristide Overthrow?
New details of corruption were spelled out in court papers made public
Tuesday as a seventh person faced charges in the U.S. government's
probe of the cocaine trafficking that flourished under former Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. An affidavit filed in U.S. District
Court included allegations that a Haitian judge was paid $360,000 to
let a cocaine smuggler out of jail after a corrupt senator took
protection money, then framed the smuggler when the payoffs stopped. [more]
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