Joseph Jailed In Haiti Telco Case


A former official at state-owned Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison.



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A former official at state-owned Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison.
Here's what happened during the second quarter of 2012.
When Roger Clemens and FCPA defendants walk, should we only see failure by the DOJ?
The main issue on appeal is what is a 'foreign official' under the FCPA. Esquenazi is also arguing that new exculpatory evidence wasn't considered, and that the computation for his 15-year prison sentence wasn't correct.
Prosecutors asked for a reduction in Robert Antoine's sentence after he testified against other defendants in the sprawling Haiti telco case.
Without any appellate record to guide them on the issue of 'foreign officials,' should Joel Esquenazi and Carlos Rodriguez have gone to trial? Or should they have plea-bargained for shorter sentences?
Jean Rene Duperval, a Haitian official at the center of the DOJ's sprawling Haiti Telco prosecution, was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for money laundering.
Trial courts have decided 'foreign official' challenges before. We already looked at the Carson case. This time, it's the Lindsey prosecution -- when another federal judge issued a written ruling on the meaning of 'foreign official.'
In U.S. v. Carson, the defendants submitted a sixty-one page argument on the issue of who's a 'foreign official,' along with a declaration by Mike Koehler about the FCPA's legislative history that stretched to one hundred fifty pages.
Two Haiti Telco defendants convicted by a jury last year of FCPA, wire fraud, and money-laundering offenses have asked a federal appeals court to review the meaning of 'foreign official.'
A federal jury in Miami convicted the former director of international relations for Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. (Haiti Telco) on all counts yesterday.
A former director of state-owned Telecommunications D’Haiti S.A.M. accused of accepting bribes has pleaded guilty in Miami to conspiracy to launder money.