Hti - US: Former Aristide goon busted...hard

Former Haiti police official indicted

By Ann W. O'Neill
Staff Writer
Posted May 29 2004

A former commander with the Haitian National Police Brigade was charged Friday in a federal grand jury indictment with eight counts of cocaine conspiracy and money laundering.

Rudy Therassan, 39, is the first former Haitian government official indicted in a grand jury's inquiry into drugs, money and corruption under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He is being held without bail in Miami.

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Meanwhile Pierre Legrand over at The Pink Flamingos Bar & Grill blog in Haiti has some thoughts on the recent spate of cases of the butterflies exhibited by some conservative publications.

The Money quote?

"Opinion Journal...rushes in where only John Kerry has been"