Ex-Haitian senator charged in U.S. for alleged role in assassination of Haiti's president
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Washington — A former Haitian senator is facing charges in the United States stemming from his alleged involvement in last year's assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti's president, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Joseph Joel John, 51, was extradited from Jamaica to the U.S. on Friday and appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Miami on Monday afternoon, according to federal authorities. He is charged with conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside of the U.S. and providing material support resulting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.
He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.
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