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Former Senator sentenced to life in prison in assassination of Haitian President

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A person holds a photo of late Haitian President Jovenel Moise during his memorial ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 20, 2021.[AP Photo]

A federal judge in Miami on Tuesday sentenced a former Haitian senator to life in prison for conspiring to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.

John Joel Joseph is the third of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami to be sentenced in what U.S. prosecutors have described as a plot hatched in both Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to kidnap or kill Moise, who was 53 when he was slain at his private home near the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince on July 7, 2021.

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