Ex-Honduran leader Juan Orlando Hernandez gets 45 years in U.S. prison for drug offenses
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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez must serve 45 years in a U.S. federal prison and pay an $8 million fine for drug trafficking offenses.
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Prosecutors asked that Hernández be sentenced to life in prison plus an additional 30 years for his role in profiting from a narco-state that caused a surge in "violence, fear, poverty and migration."
By Jack Guy and Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses.
Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York for his conviction on charges that he enabled drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help get tons of cocaine into the US.
Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of running a narco-state that formed a critical passageway for South American cocaine to the United States. He has maintained his innocence.
NEW YORK — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York for his conviction on charges that he enabled drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help get tons of cocaine into the United States. Judge P.
A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $8 million for enabling drug traffickers to use his military and national police force
Juan Orlando Hernandez faces 45 years in jail after being convicted of helping to traffic vast amounts cocaine into the US. He was in office from 2014 to 2022; the US says he turned the country into a "narco-state."
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York for his conviction on charges that he enabled drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help get tons of cocaine into the United States.
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez must serve 45 years in a U.S. federal prison and pay an $8 million fine for drug trafficking offenses.
Honduras’ erstwhile President Juan Orlando Hernández received a 45-year prison sentence Wednesday for multi-ton drug trafficking and related firearm offenses
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it to the United States.
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for colluding with drug traffickers to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine reached American soil.
Hernandez has maintained his innocence, citing his former reputation as an anti-drug trafficker. But Judge Kevin Castel said evidence showed that Hernandez used "considerable acting skills" to portray himself as a hero of the anti-drug trafficking movement, while doing the opposite,
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