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Sunday, February 11, 2024

Former DEA Informant Sentenced to Life in US for Haitian President's Assassination

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat


A former DEA informant was sentenced to life in prison and another man pleaded guilty on Friday in a US court case over the 2021 assassination of Haiti's last president, Jovenel Moise.

The two are among 11 defendants accused of participating in a plot to replace Moise by sending a team of Colombian mercenaries to kill him in his Port-au-Prince residence. Of four who have so far been sentenced in Miami, Florida, all have received life.


Joseph Vincent

The ex-informant, Haitian-American Joseph Vincent had pleaded guilty to helping the plot by providing political advice and meetings with community leaders. According to a court document, he had masqueraded as a US government official.



The same day, Florida resident Frederick Joseph Bergmann Jr. also pleaded guilty to charges in the case, including submitting false or misleading export information.

Bergmann Jr. was arrested alongside three other Floridians a year ago, at which time U.S. authorities said he had helped fund the mercenaries' Haiti lodgings and helped ship bulletproof vests to Haiti by falsifying export documents.

They had said he could face up to 20 years in prison. Also indicted in the plot were Haitian-Americans James Solages and Christian Emmanuel Sanon and Colombian citizen Germán Rivera García.


According to court documents, two months before Moïse was killed, Joseph Vincent texted Solages a video of a cat “reacting alertly” to the sound of gunfire. Solages laughed, prompting Vincent to respond: “That’s the way Jovenel will be pretty much, but (sooner) if you guys really up to it!" Solages responded that “(this) cat will never come back,” and “trust me, brother, we definitely working on our final decision,” the documents stated.


Some 20 former Colombian soldiers were recruited to supposedly help arrest the President and protect former Haitian Senator Sanon, who envisioned himself as Haiti’s new leader. Rivera was in charge of that group, according to the documents that are part of the case in South Florida. Investigators allege the plotters had hoped to win contracts under Moïse’s successor.

Authorities said the plan was to detain Moïse and whisk him to an unidentified location by plane, but that plot fell through when the suspects couldn’t find a plane or sufficient weapons.


A day before the killing, Solages falsely told other suspects that it was a CIA operation and that the mission was to kill the president, according to the documents. Shortly before the killing, authorities said, Solages allegedly shouted that it was a DEA operation to ensure compliance from the president’s security detail.


Moise was shot down in his bedroom during the night-time raid. His death has left a political vacuum during which alliances of violent gangs have expanded their territories and are now estimated to control most of the capital.

After the killing, Vincent maintained his innocence and told a Haitian judge that he was a translator for the Colombian soldiers accused of storming the president’s residence and killing him.

About a year after the killing, U.S. authorities say they interviewed Solages, Vincent, and Rivera while they were in Haitian custody and that they agreed to talk.




In the years since Moise's death, violent gangs armed with guns believed to be largely trafficked from the US, have massively grown their power, their turf wars driving a humanitarian crisis and hundreds of thousands from their homes.

Earlier on Friday, the United Nations said January was Haiti's most violent month in over two years, with more than 1,100 people killed, injured or kidnapped.

Anti-government protests broke out in the days leading up to Feb. 7, the day by which Henry had promised to step down, though he later backtracked saying security must be re-established for free and fair elections.

A separate investigation is being carried out in Haiti, with the judge calling to interview figures such as Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Moise's de facto but unelected successor, and his widow Martine Moise.

Haiti's last elections took place in 2016 and its last senators' terms expired in January last year.

Source Reuters, AP News

35 comments:

  1. Can you give any context on why they wanted to kill him? What was gonna be there benefit? We’re they gonna place a puppet? Was the current guy waging war against gangs like Bukele or what?

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    1. Money 💰💰💰💰.

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    2. Still a little bit of a mystery, but for the most part Sanon wanted to become the leader/president and contracts would be doled out to the plotters.

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    3. The USA government wants something at Haiti . Like that they wont talk trial is at USA

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  2. Why was their trial in the USA???

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  3. Wow killed a president I know Haitis third world but that's pretty intense.

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    1. 8:39
      It was pretty intense when they clipped JFK in a first world country..
      All the teachers in my school were crying..
      🦎

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    2. Yes Geogre Bush sr cough cough 951

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    3. 5 United States presidents have been assassinated.

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    4. But but but, I thought corruption, Plata o plomo was non existent in the gringo.

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  4. The kitty-cat "reacted alertly" to the sound of gunfire, the Haitian prez, not so much..
    Perplexed by the daunting prospect of actually scheming out an intricate plan, acquiring guns, planes, etc., these shit-for-brains numnuts plotters decided to take the easy way out and whack the poor mope in his pajamas..
    So batshit-crazy an operation, maybe it really was CIA..
    Patsies pictured here look like street corner hooligans, there's not a 006 in the bunch..
    Lackadaisical presidential guards froze at the sound of 'DEA', lol, and did I hear something somewhere that the vic's ol' lady was involved?
    Funny stuff..
    In Super Bowl news, Taylor Swift parachuting in from Japan to jinx her stud's team's chances and attract plenty of 'dead' money into what should be a record betting pool..
    San Francisco to win by a touchdown and easily cover the spread..
    🦎

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    1. SF should win if they don't become mental midgets if it becomes a difficult game.

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    2. Don't think so Kansas City Chiefs baby. California doesn't do football.

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    3. 1:05 Just as I predicted, SF became mental midgets. They were too lackadaisical in their offense. The end of this second quarter was a repeat of the end of the second quarter in their prior SB game. Some players didn't know the new OT rules.
      No sense of urgency to win the game. Should have been the Lions.

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  5. YTF is the USA charging them and do all that extra sauce? Wasting tax payers $$$

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    1. Thanks to our tax dollars, the US government is a giant racket

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    2. The plot largely originated in Florida.

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    3. SocialJ you ever heard of Jose Battle ? He's long gone but he was a very interesting character and he did have actual proven connections to the CIA.

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  6. I wonder if the dea has infiltrated the Colombians fighting the war in Michoacán.

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    1. malumas definitely a Michoacán by now..

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  7. good ole US of A .......... meeeeeeeeeeeerica FUCK YEAH!!! if you dont do what we want we are coming for dat azz

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  8. For Sals: simón trinidad is still in solitary at the supermax..
    However:.. and, get this: none of the A380 Airbus passengers on Lufthansa flight LH773 were quarantined.. they were all rerouted through 🇭🇰

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  9. LH773 departed Bangkok 14 minutes late today, what's up with that?
    🦎

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  10. It will be nice to know what's behind all of this ooo never mind all of this political ,narco drama is just too much is better to just watch the CHIEFS beating the 49ers and see all the TRUMPees cry Conspiracy theories

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    1. The irony of Trump/MAGA cheering for Frisco

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    2. 12:23 Cheetos face will also say it was a witch hunt.

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  11. Too many of you are embarrassingly unsophisticated to conflate an informant accused of separate crimes with someone working as an agent or at the behest of the US government. We don’t give a ish about Haiti. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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  12. What was committed in U.S territory?

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  13. Another fine example of "informant's" utilized by the USA Gov't. ala Whitey Bulger.

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    1. 12:20
      White Bulger is dead
      Nixon is dead.
      Chavez of Venezuela is dead.

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    2. 11:45
      El che Guevara está muerto
      Castro está muerto
      Colosio está muerto
      Chabelo está muerto

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