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Prosecutors said Mr. Hernández was key to a scheme that lasted more than 20 years and brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States.
“The people of Honduras and the United States bore the consequences,” Merrick Garland, then the attorney general, said in 2024, after Mr. Hernández was sentenced.
His own trial showed in grisly detail how Mr. Hernández had promised to crack down on drug gangs, all the while partnering with them instead, according to statements by prosecutors and witnesses.
Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, a former leader of a gang called Los Cachiros, who admitted to being involved in the deaths of 78 people, testified that he had bribed Mr. Hernández with $250,000 delivered to the president’s sister, Hilda, in exchange for protection.
Another trafficker testified that he had personally delivered a payoff, saying: “I paid $250,000 as a bribe to Juan Orlando Hernández.”
“The people of Honduras and the United States bore the consequences,” Merrick Garland, then the attorney general, said in 2024, after Mr. Hernández was sentenced.
His own trial showed in grisly detail how Mr. Hernández had promised to crack down on drug gangs, all the while partnering with them instead, according to statements by prosecutors and witnesses.
Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, a former leader of a gang called Los Cachiros, who admitted to being involved in the deaths of 78 people, testified that he had bribed Mr. Hernández with $250,000 delivered to the president’s sister, Hilda, in exchange for protection.
Another trafficker testified that he had personally delivered a payoff, saying: “I paid $250,000 as a bribe to Juan Orlando Hernández.”
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