| Dominican Diplomat Detained
As Drug Lord While Colleague Francis Lorenzo
Back In UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 14 – Jeremias
Jimenez-Cruz, once the Consul
General for the Dominican
Republic to Jamaica, is in
detention in the US as a drug
lord awaiting trial. On May 14
he sought released based on
COVID-19, before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Kimba M. Wood. Inner City
Press covered it.
Jiminez-Cruz'
lawyer insisted, loudly and
repeatedly, that there was no
evidence against his client.
But Judge Wood
cited video evidence, and the
defendant's sizable incentive
to flee.
He was a
Dominican Republic diplomat -
if he got back to DR, he would
be sitting pretty.
The proceeding
was ironic, in that UN bribery
convict Francis Lorenzo, who
as Deputy Permanent
Representative to the UN of
current UN Security Council
member the Dominican Republic
paid bribes to UN PGA John
Ashe - is now back working for
the Dominican Mission, and
entering the UN.
But in this case,
Judge Wood denied release.
The case is US v.
Jimenez-Cruz, 19-cr-326
(Wood).
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