Duvalier Bank Accounts Frozen by N.Y. Court
- Share via
NEW YORK — A judge froze two bank accounts belonging to the wife of deposed Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, which Haiti believes contain $415,000 in misappropriated government funds.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Stanley Ostraw’s order Wednesday came in response to the latest Haitian government effort to recover an estimated $400 million Duvalier is believed to have funneled out of the impoverished Caribbean country.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
