Life sentence
Rodolphe Jaar
- Status
- Life sentence — pleaded guilty March 2023, sentenced June 2, 2023
- Role in the case
- Financier and logistics chief. His plea admitted providing personnel and funds, weapons money and bribes to Moïse's security detail, housing about 20 Colombians, and sheltering Colombians after the attack. The first person sentenced in the U.S. case.
- Background
- Haitian-Chilean businessman, a convicted drug trafficker a decade earlier and former U.S. government informant. Arrested in the Dominican Republic in January 2022 and travelled voluntarily to the U.S.
Source:Reuters via KRRO, Jun 2 2023
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