UPDATE 3-US court convicts four men in Haitian president's assassination
Published on: May 9, 2026, 1:36 a.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
"This is a Haitian plot and it is a Haitian conspiracy," defense attorney Emmanuel Perez said, arguing that the men were being used as scapegoats in a flawed FBI investigation, the Miami Herald reported. A divisive figure in Haiti who declined to leave office after his term ended in February 2021, Moise's death added to the Caribbean nation's political instability and unleashed widespread gang violence.
