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Ex-Prez JOH Got 45 Years Martinez Turcios
Got Delay and Questions Journo Murder
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Nov 4 – In the closing
arguments on March 6, AUSA
Tarlow said that narco
trafficking had grown under
JOH. On March 7, out of the
hearing of the jury and for
then the Press, JOH's lawyer
Stabile said he'd heard
different overnight.
From who?
The
defendant's wife he said.
Later on March 8,
the verdict, here-
then the book Narco Drama in English then Spanish.
On August 9,
2024, this Honduras
Congressman's guilty plea:
"Midence Oqueli Martinez
Turcios (1) Guilty as to Count
1."
Narco
Drama book /
audiobook in
Spanish here
On December 16 a
"Fatico" hearing continued,
thread here
More analysis on
X for Subscribers here
and with translation into
Spanish here on Substack here
On January 30 his
lawyer wrote in asking to
re-open the hearing to put on
more witness, who read about
the December 12 and December
16 hearings, seemingly from
Inner City Press, via
OnceNoticias, "Midence Oquelí
Martínez Turcios has a hearing
in which cooperator Devis
Leonel Rivera implicated him
in murder," reported American
journalist Matthew Russell
Lee"
On February 24
Judge Kaplan ruled "the Court
credits the bulk of Rivera's
testimony at the Fatico
hearing. Accordingly, the
Court accepts the presentence
report with the modifications
reflected in a sealed order
issued contemporaneously with
this opinion." Order on
Patreon here
The next day,
February 25, defense counsel
requested reconsideration in a
heavily redacted memo, saying
the Court relied on only one
witness [REDACTED].. the
Government has never called
him to testify as a witness in
any case."
Jump cut to
August 28 when the US
Attorney's Office wrote in
asking to delay its sentencing
memo from August 29 to...
Monday, September 1, which is
Labor Day...
On September 2
defense counsel asked to delay
the September 7 sentencing.
On November 4
Turcios' lawyer wrote in
saying that what Leonel Rivera
said, that Chele Volqueta
killed journalist Nahum
Palacios, while having
previously said Volqueta was
killed in prison.
The case is USA
v. Martinez Turcios,
1:18-cr-499
(Kaplan)
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
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