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Honduras Salguero Trial Has Sealed Motions
About Ardon Soriano, JOH Jan 2023
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 17 – After the
president of Honduras' brother
Tony Hernandez was convicted
of drug trafficking and
sentenced to life plus thirty
years, on April 21, 2022 the
ex-president himself, Juan
Orlando Hernandez, was
extradited to the United
States.
[Espanol aqui]
Inner City
Press which covered the trials
of Tony Hernandez and Giovanny
Fuentes Ramirez immediatley published
the unsealed JOH indictment,
which was returned on January
27, 2022 but left under seal.
Now, a related
case is moving toward trial,
with problems about a witness,
Ardon Soriano. Inner City
Press live tweeted a
proceeding on August 17, 2022,
here
and below.
First, the trial:
"ORDER as to Otto Rene
Salguero Morales, Ronald
Enrique Salguero Portillo. The
trial of this action as to the
above-named defendants is set
for November 7, 2022 at 10am
in Courtroom 11D. Government
voir dire, requests to charge,
Rule 404(b) evidence and any
in limine motions are due
September 9, 2022. Defendants'
in limine motions, responses
to government in limine
motions, voir dire and
requests to charge, including
objections to government
requests due September 23,
2022. Government responses to
defendants' motions due
October 7, 2022. Final
Pretrial Conference set for
October 27, 2022 at 11 a.m.
(Government Responses due by
10/7/2022, Jury Trial set for
11/7/2022 at 10:00 AM in
Courtroom 11D, 500 Pearl
Street, New York, NY 10007
before Judge P. Kevin Castel."
From August 17 thread:
"OK- #NarcosHonduras case of
Salguero now before
@SDNYLIVE Judge Castel,
who's done Tony H and soon
JOH.
Ronald
Salguero wants to fire Linda
George and retain Baum. George
says she didn't know until she
saw David Zapp signed in to
visit Ronald in MDC jail.
Zapp reads a
CorrLinks email from Ronald,
translating from Spanish.
Ronald: I want
Zapp. Judge: This has peril.
Trial is in November.
AUSA: We
take no position. George: My
private investigator is here
in court. We found
inconsistencies in the
prosecution's case. But this
new lawyer won't know of it,
my sealed letters...
One of the sealed
filings, we now report,
questions the testimony of
Ardon Soriano
Judge: Ms
George, you are terminated.
She comes back into the
gallery. Zapp sits by Ronald.
Defense counsel met with head
of SDNY Criminal Division. Now
there's talk about "the
fridge... construction in the
area."
The proceeding ended.
Inner City Press will have
more about it, about Amilcar
Alexander Ardón Soriano and
(hopefully quickly) about the
filing(s). Watch this site.
On May 11, JUAN
CARLOS BONILLA VALLADARES, or
Tigre Bonilla, formerly of the
Honduran National Police, was
presented and Inner City Press
live tweeted it here
On May 10, Juan
Orlando Hernandez was brought
into court to be arraigned.
Inner City Press live tweeted
it, thread here
Back on April 21,
a lawyer filed a notice of
appearance to represent JOH:
Raymond L. Colon of 131
Pugsley Avenue in The Bronx,
with 30 other cases over the
years in SDNY.
On April 22 by
video Colon represented JOH at
his presentment. Inner City
Press live tweeted here
Previously,
Inner City Press asked UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres why he supported
already-disgraced JOH in
helping to steal his second
election, by sending a four
person panel with no read-out.
There has still
been no answer from UN
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric -
but Guterres' head of media
access Melissa Fleming has
banned Inner City Press,
ongoing.
On April 21 Inner
City Press posted vlogs in English
and Spanish,
and streamed the DEA press
statement from DC, here.
We will cover JOH's
presentment, arraignment and
trial.
The case is US v.
Juan Orlando Hernandez, et
al., 15-cr-379 (Castel).
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