Honduras football boss Yankel Rosenthal charged in US

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News

Honduras football boss Yankel Rosenthal charged in US
1 hour ago

The president of one of Honduras's most famous football clubs has been charged in the United States with drug trafficking and money laundering.

Yankel Rosenthal, a former minister of investment, was arrested on Tuesday after landing at Miami airport.

His cousin Yani and uncle Jaime Rolando, a four-time presidential candidate and newspaper owner, were also charged.

They come from one of the wealthiest families in Honduras.


Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34471019

[Judi Lynn]

1. Powerful Honduran businessman accused of money laundering

Powerful Honduran businessman accused of money laundering

FREDDY CUEVAS
Associated Press

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- One of Honduras's most powerful businessmen has been indicted in the United States for allegedly laundering money for drug traffickers.

The U.S. Justice Department released a statement Wednesday saying that Jaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva, his son Yani Benjamin Rosenthal and nephew Yankel Rosenthal were named in the indictment and seven businesses were labelled "specially designated narcotics traffickers" under the Kingpin Act.

Yankel Rosenthal was arrested Tuesday at Miami's airport.

The statement said they "provide money laundering and other services that support the international narcotics trafficking activities of multiple Central American drug traffickers and their criminal organizations."

More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/APFN_LT_HONDURAS_US_ARREST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-07-16-02-09

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Jaime Rolando Rosenthal Olive, son Yani Benjamin Rosenthal, nephew Yankel Rosenthal



Father and son, "out to the ballgame." [/center]

[forest444]

2. Since John Negroponte established a yeyocracy there, it's been downhill for Honduras

http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1987/eirv14n49-19871211/eirv14n49-19871211_043-the_cocaine_pushers_honduras_con.pdf

[KamaAina]

3. LaRouche??

Don't you have a source from this planet?

[forest444]

4. His undeniable role in facilitating the drug rackets in Honduras is well known.

The above was simply the most concise description of it, that's all - plus the fact that the article is almost entirely a recapitulation of numerous actual events, rather than an opinion piece (which would indeed be objectionable, LaRouche or not).

Much of the blame pointed at Negroponte's for the rise of drug trafficking in Honduras has to do with his tenure as Ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985 (appointed by Reagan), when he played a key role in establishing that country as a base of operations for the Contras. Honduras' ongoing drug war can be directly traced to that policy.

So what was his role? While doubling the size of the local CIA office, in 1983 Negroponte had the local DEA office shuttered over the objections of the DEA itself and at a time when trafficking through Honduras was taking off. Why? Because these operations largely relied on drug trafficking for their financing.

There's no controversy about these facts; all Negroponte can do is plead ignorance - which is hard to believe considering how heavily the Bush regime relied on him during the Iraq War (making him Ambassador to Iraq and the first Director of National Intelligence, as you know).

For more on Negroponte's time as Ambassador of Honduras:

https://books.google.com/books?id=vgthWZ5KlskC&pg=PA51&dq=Peter+Dale+Scott+%2B+Bananas,+Cocaine&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIhbqL-MaxyAIVSjCICh10bwNT#v=onepage&q=Peter%20Dale%20Scott%20%2B%20Bananas%2C%20Cocaine&f=false

[KamaAina]

6. I'm no Negroponte fan (except fro his brother Nick from MIT Media Lab)

but can't you come up with an actual source instead of ?

[Judi Lynn]

7. His deep involvement with the death squads was vicious and destructive enough, on its own,

to be a full time job.

You've lent a link which reminds me of more information I've run across during resesearch. I hope to learn a great deal more about this well-valued U.S. ambassador, UN guy, and all around beloved son of the military/industrial war machine.

Thanks for adding material we also need to know. Information like this comes with research, as it always get buried by our corporate "news" media.

Thanks.

[MisterP]

5. the Rosenthals ran the Liberal Party, which is why LIBRE had to split and the PL backed the coup

[Judi Lynn]

8. Now, that's interesting. Truly creepy people. Really appreciate your information. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

9. U.S. charges Honduran soccer club chief with laundering drug money

Wed Oct 7, 2015 7:27pm EDT

U.S. charges Honduran soccer club chief with laundering drug money

MIAMI/NEW YORK | By Zachary Fagenson and Jonathan Stempel

The president of a top Honduras soccer club and two family members were charged by U.S. authorities on Wednesday with engineering a decade-long scheme to launder drug trafficking and foreign bribery proceeds through U.S. accounts.

The Rosenthal family, one of Honduras' wealthiest and most politically connected families, was accused of using their Grupo Continental conglomerate to run what a senior U.S. Department of the Treasury official called one of Central America's most significant money laundering networks.

Yankel Rosenthal, 46, president of Club Deportivo Marathon and until June a minister of investment in Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's government, was arrested in Miami on Tuesday, and appeared in federal court there on Wednesday.

Also charged were his uncle Jaime Rosenthal, 79, who unsuccessfully tried to be a presidential candidate for Honduras' center-right Liberal party; Yani Rosenthal, 50, a former cabinet member and Jaime's son; and Andres Acosta Garcia, 40, a Grupo Continental lawyer.

More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/07/us-usa-honduras-soccer-crime-idUSKCN0S125620151007