NEW YORK – A brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández should be sentenced to life in prison for running a “state-sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy” with the nation's current leader, U.S.
federal prosecutors say in documents filed ahead of a sentencing hearing scheduled next week. Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, a former Honduran congressman, was convicted in October 2019 of participating in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine to the United States that involved use of machine guns.
His sentencing, which has been delayed multiple times, is scheduled for Tuesday in New York. Documents filed by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York late Tuesday, lay out Tony Hernández’s criminal history, as well as the points where it