Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president
Associated PressMIAMI — 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. Federal Judge José E. Martínez handed down the sentence at a 10-minute hearing at the federal court in downtown Miami. 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.