According to this article on Reuters, by Tim Reid "LOS ANGELES, Jan 15 (Reuters) -…
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He was mayor of a town in Haiti. Now he has to pay his victims $15M, U.S. court rules
According to this article on Miami Herald, by JACQUELINE CHARLES
“A former mayor of a small town in Haiti’s western region has been ordered by a federal court in Boston to pay $15.5 million in damages after being found guilty in a civil case of torture, extrajudicial killings, attempted killing and arson.
Jean Morose Viliena, a U.S. permanent resident living in Malden, Massachusetts, had served as mayor of Les Irois in Haiti’s Grand’Anse region from December 2006 until February 2010 and then was appointed mayor again in 2012 by former Haitian President Michel Martelly. He got the job despite a murder indictment in the Haitian courts.”