Dominican Diplomat Detained As Drug Lord While Colleague Francis Lorenzo Back In UN
By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 14 – Jeremias Jimenez-Cruz, once the Consul General for the Dominican Republic to Jamaica, is in detention in the US as a drug lord awaiting trial. On May 14 he sought released based on COVID-19, before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Kimba M. Wood. Inner City Press covered it.
Jiminez-Cruz' lawyer insisted, loudly and repeatedly, that there was no evidence against his client.
But Judge Wood cited video evidence, and the defendant's sizable incentive to flee.
He was a Dominican Republic diplomat - if he got back to DR, he would be sitting pretty.
The proceeding was ironic, in that UN bribery convict Francis Lorenzo, who as Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN of current UN Security Council member the Dominican Republic paid bribes to UN PGA John Ashe - is now back working for the Dominican Mission, and entering the UN.
But in this case, Judge Wood denied release.
The case is US v. Jimenez-Cruz, 19-cr-326 (Wood).
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