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so, WTF is up w/ the lawyer the idiot child-napper-peeps in Hati hired
I think they're falling into the 'he claims to love Jeebus, give him money while he destroys us' trap.
(Which is unfortunate because there are likely, IMO, several idiots who deserve jail time in the group...and several idiots who need to be taught to question authority and quit being fucktards. )
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011050829_haiti12.html
The police in El Salvador have begun an investigation into whether a man suspected of leading a trafficking ring involving Central American and Caribbean women and girls has been providing legal advice to the Americans charged with trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without permission.
When the judge presiding over the Haitian case learned Thursday of the investigation in El Salvador, he said he would begin his own inquiry into the adviser, Jorge Puello, who was in the judge's chambers days before.
The inquiries are the latest twist in the case, coming after a lawyer for the group was fired after being accused of trying to offer bribes to get the 10 Americans out of jail.
Puello said in a telephone interview Thursday that he had not engaged in any illegal activity in El Salvador and that he had never been in the country. He called it a case of mistaken identity.
"There's a Colombian drug dealer who was arrested with 25 IDs, and one of them had my name," he said, not elaborating.
"Bring the proof," he said when pressed about the child-trafficking accusations, ending the interview.
The Americans were charged last week with child kidnapping and criminal association after being arrested Jan. 29 while trying to take the 33 children, ages 2 to 12, across the border to an orphanage they were trying to set up in the Dominican Republic.
The 10 have been jailed since then. They had been told by their lawyers that at least some of them would be on their way home Thursday. The judge in the case, Bernard Saint-Vil, recommended Thursday to the prosecutor that they be released ? but not allowed to leave Haiti ? until he issued a final ruling.
Puello has been acting as a spokesman and legal adviser for the detainees in the Dominican Republic.
The head of the Salvadoran border police, Commissioner Jorge Callejas, said he was investigating accusations that a man with a Dominican passport that identified him as Jorge Anibal Torres Puello led a human-trafficking ring that recruited Dominican women and underage Nicaraguan girls by offering them jobs and then putting them to work as prostitutes in El Salvador.
When Callejas was shown a photo of Puello, Callejas said he thought it showed the man he was seeking.
Judge Saint-Vil also said he thought the photo of the trafficking suspect in a Salvadoran police file appeared to be the same man he had met in court. He said he intended to begin his own investigation into whether a suspected trafficker had been working with the American church members detained in Haiti.
There were also questions about whether Puello, who said he had been hired by the Central Valley Baptist Church in Idaho as a lawyer to represent the Americans, was licensed to practice law. Records at the College of Lawyers in the Dominican Republic listed no one with his name.
Puello said he was part of a 45-member law firm. But his office in Santo Domingo turned out to be a humble place, which could not possibly fit 45 lawyers. Puello's brother Alejandro said the firm had another office in the central business district, but he declined to provide an address.
Puello said in the interview that he had been representing the Americans for free. Other lawyers for the detainees said the families had paid Puello at least $12,000 and had asked for $36,000 more. Puello said the $12,000 was for transportation, and that the other money was needed to pay other lawyers in the case.