Brother of Honduran president accused of getting $1 million from 'El Chapo.'
A former Honduran politician is facing life in federal prison for allegedly getting help from his brother, currently the president of the Central American country, in conspiring with massive drug cartels including that of Mexican drug lord Joaquín"El Chapo" Guzmán to smuggle drugs in the United States, prosecutors said.
"The defendant was protected by and had access to his brother, the current sitting president of Honduras, a man who himself has received millions of dollars in drug-money bribes -- bribes he received from some of the largest cocaine traffickers in the world, bribes he received from men like 'El Chapo' and the Sinaloa cartel, who personally delivered $1 million to the defendant for his brother," Richman said.
"The politics in Honduras is like nothing you have ever seen," said Hernandez's defense attorney, Omar Malone, in his opening statements."You think we have problems between the Democrats and Republicans ... they're the Desert Storm of politics." While the Honduran president is not named in the indictment, prosecutors intend to present evidence that he allegedly used the drug money to win elections in 2013 and 2017.Last week, the Trump administration signed an agreement with President Hernandez that won't allow asylum seekers to enter the United States through Mexico.
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