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    Ex-strongman tells NY judge he'd go back to Haiti to face ju

    Ex-strongman tells NY judge he'd go back to Haiti to face justice
    By TOM HAYS
    Associated Press Writer


    May 15, 2007, 7:12 PM EDT
    NEW YORK -- After living in exile in the United States for more than a decade, a once-feared leader of a right-wing paramilitary group in Haiti announced on Tuesday that he's willing to go back to the Caribbean nation, where he faces charges of murder and torture.

    "I have no fear to be deported to Haiti," Emmanuel "Toto" Constant said in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, where he had been scheduled for sentencing in a mortgage fraud case.

    State and federal lawyers urged Justice Abraham Gerges to sentence Constant to time served _ 10 months of a proposed 1-to-3-year sentence _ to speed his deportation. The Haitian government has "clearly demonstrated" it can fairly prosecute the former strongman, said Ajay Bhatt, an attorney with the Department of Homeland Security.

    But the judge postponed the sentencing after the Center for Constitutional Rights claimed the country remained too unstable to keep Constant from evading justice. The civil rights group also argued that, given Constant's troubled history in Haiti, the sentence agreed to as part of a plea deal was too lenient.

    The judge suggested he might kill the deal, forcing Constant to withdraw a guilty plea and go to trial on charges he defrauded lenders out of more than $1.7 million. If convicted, Constant would face five to 15 years in prison.

    After demanding to speak to the court, Constant stood at the defense table and complained that the allegations in Haiti were "purely political" and "should have no bearing on the case here."

    Another hearing was set for Monday.

    Constant, 50, emerged as the feared leader of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's presidency was toppled in 1991. Human rights groups allege that between 1991 and 1994, FRAPH terrorized and slaughtered slum-dwellers loyal to Aristide.

    Constant, the 6-foot-4 son of a military officer, once boasted that he was a paid informant for the CIA and claimed he had the power of voodoo in him. When Aristide returned to power 1994, he fled to the United States.

    Despite a 1995 deportation order, Constant was allowed to remain because of instability in Haiti. He kept a low profile, living with relatives in Queens until being jailed last year in the mortgage fraud case.

    In a separate civil case last year, a federal judge ordered Constant to pay $19 million in damages to three Haitian women who said they were gang-raped by paramilitary soldiers under his command.

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    The CCR is comprised of totalitarian-supporting, neo-Marxist lunatics.

    I have no idea why they would support keeping a leader of FRAPH in this country-other than their insistence that no piece of pond scum ever be deported from America-but the fact that they are gives you an idea of why we should send this parasite back to Haiti.

    They've spotlighted this case for years-Michelle even devoted a few pages to it in her chapter about the war criminals, murderers and terrorists who are crawling around in our country-and the fact that the gov't is only getting around to deporting this dirtbag now shows you how broken our federal bureaucracy is.
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