USA v. Baptiste
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1:17-cr-10305
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June 28, 2022
Feds Drop Haitian Bribe Case After Discovering New Evidence
Federal prosecutors in Boston dropped a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against a former U.S. Army colonel and a lawyer just days before they were set to be tried for a second time, after the FBI unearthed text messages suggesting the two were innocent.
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June 21, 2022
Atty Says Feds Destroyed Evidence, Wants FCPA Case Tossed
An attorney charged in an $84 million bribery scheme argued in Massachusetts federal court that the charge against him should be dropped on the eve of trial after the FBI destroyed evidence that could have cast doubt on his guilt and also wiped clean any record of what happened to the proof in question.
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June 09, 2022
FCPA Retrial May Be Tainted By Hidden Evidence, Atty Warns
Federal prosecutors are sitting on evidence that might cast doubt on their claims that an attorney and a retired Army colonel conspired to bribe Haitian officials to approve an $84 million port project, the lawyer claimed ahead of an upcoming retrial.
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May 11, 2022
Army Col. Faces July FCPA Retrial After Atty Errors Sank Case
A retired Army colonel whose bribery conviction was undone due to his lawyer's shortcomings at trial will be retried in July after a Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday denied the defense's request for more time.
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March 11, 2020
Atty's Poor Performance In 1st Trial Nixes Bribe Convictions
A lawyer working his first full-blown trial botched it badly enough for a judge to throw out the convictions of his client and alleged co-conspirator, a retired Army colonel and lawyer accused of trying to bribe government officials in Haiti in exchange for approvals on an $84 million port project, according to a Wednesday ruling.
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June 20, 2019
Atty, Retired Army Col. Guilty In $84M Haiti Bribery Scheme
A federal jury in Boston found an attorney and a retired U.S. Army colonel guilty on Thursday of making a plan to bribe government officials in Haiti in exchange for approvals on an $84 million port project.
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June 19, 2019
Conspiracy To Bribe Haitian Officials Was Explicit, Jury Hears
Recorded conversations involving two men who were pursuing an $84 million port project in Haiti offer clear evidence that they intended to bribe government officials in exchange for approvals, a prosecutor told jurors in Massachusetts federal court Wednesday as a seven-day trial concluded.
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June 11, 2019
FBI 'Engineered' Bribery Case In Haiti, Jury Hears
Undercover agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation pressured two men to divulge a bribery scheme in Haiti to fund an $84 million port project, but never proved that any such conspiracy existed, lawyers for the men told a federal jury in Boston on Tuesday as a weeklong trial began.
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June 07, 2019
FBI Agents Admit They Lost Call Recordings In Bribe Case
Three FBI officials testified in Boston federal court Friday that they have no idea how the agency lost two recordings of an undercover agent's phone calls with a man accused of soliciting bribes from Haitian officials to fund an $84 million port project.
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April 15, 2019
Gov't Accused Of Destroying Evidence In Haitian Bribery Case
A U.S. businessman and attorney charged with soliciting bribes from Haitian officials to fund an $84 million port project accused the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a recent federal court filing of destroying evidence that would clear his name.