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Haitian Death Squad Leader Arrested in US – For Mortgage Fraud

HeadlineJul 10, 2006

A former leader of a Haitian death squad who now lives in New York was arrested last week for taking part in mortgage fraud. During the early 1990s, Emmanuel “Toto” Constant led the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti or FRAPH. Human rights group estimate FRAPH killed thousands of supporters of Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Constant has since admitted he was on the payroll of the CIA and has lived in New York for the last decade. Despite a deportation order, Constant has been allowed to stay in the US since he threatened to reveal the extent of his ties with the CIA. Constant is also the target of a pending lawsuit that alleges his forces gang-raped women in Haiti. On Friday, a judge set bail at $50,000 dollars over the protests of prosecutors and human rights groups.

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