Honduran politician Juan Antonio 'Tony' Hernandez is accused of smuggl...
NEW YORK - Honduran politician Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez is accused of smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States for years under the protection of his brother, the Central American country’s current president, a U.S. prosecutor told jurors at the opening of his trial on Wednesday.
Richman urged the jurors to find Tony Hernandez, who was arrested in Miami last year, guilty of drug conspiracy and possessing illegal weapons. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty. Hernandez’s lawyer, Omar Malone, told the jurors the case was based on lies by drug traffickers seeking revenge on Hernandez and his brother, the president.
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly last week, he said that for his “struggle against organized crime” he was the target of “a dirty smear campaign, led by narcotraffickers, gang members, corrupt or purged police, and confessed killers, businessmen who collude with those criminals and even politicians.”
But Malone urged the jurors to be skeptical of the prosecution’s witnesses, who are currently in prison, saying they would “say what they think the government wants to hear” in an effort to get their sentences reduced.
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