Prosecutors say Juan Orlando Hernández worked with drug traffickers since at least 2004. The former president says he’s innocent.
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. Kevin Castel sentenced Hernández to 45 years in a U.S. prison and fined him $8 million. A jury convicted him in March in Manhattan federal court after aCastel called Hernández a “two-faced politician hungry for power” who protected a select group of traffickers. Hernández was in a full green prison uniform as he stood in court with his lawyers. Two U.S. marshals stood behind him.Hernández, 55, served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10 million people.Juan Orlando Hernandez is escorted by members of the Honduran Special Forces to be extradited to U.S. on charges of taking bribes from drug traffickers on April 21, 2022 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. U.S.
Hernández insisted in a lengthy statement made through an interpreter that his trial was unjust because he was not allowed to include evidence that would have caused the jury to find him not guilty. He said he was being persecuted by politicians and drug traffickers.
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