SENATE RESOLUTION 232--CALLING FOR THE IMMEDIATE EXTRADITION OR EXPULSION TO THE UNITED STATES OF CONVICTED FELONS JOANNE CHESIMARD AND WILLIAM MORALES AND ALL OTHER FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE WHO ARE...; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 94
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SENATE RESOLUTION 232--CALLING FOR THE IMMEDIATE EXTRADITION OR
EXPULSION TO THE UNITED STATES OF CONVICTED FELONS JOANNE CHESIMARD AND
WILLIAM MORALES AND ALL OTHER FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE WHO ARE RECEIVING
SAFE HAVEN IN CUBA IN ORDER TO ESCAPE PROSECUTION OR CONFINEMENT FOR
CRIMINAL OFFENSES COMMITTED IN THE UNITED STATES
Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. Rubio) submitted the following
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations:
S. Res. 232
Whereas Joanne Chesimard, one of the most wanted terrorists
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was convicted of the
May 2, 1973, murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner
Foerster;
Whereas William Morales, leader and chief bomb-maker for
the terrorist organization Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion
Nacional, committed numerous terrorist attacks on United
States soil, including the bombings of Fraunces Tavern in
lower Manhattan on January 25, 1975, and the Mobil Oil
employment office in New York on August 3, 1977, which killed
5 people and injured over 60 others;
Whereas more than 70 fugitives from the United States,
charged with offenses ranging from hijacking to kidnapping to
drug offenses to murder, are believed to be receiving safe
haven in Cuba;
Whereas other fugitives from United States justice who are
receiving safe haven in Cuba include Charles Hill, wanted for
the killing of a State trooper in New Mexico, and Victor
Manuel Gerena, on the list of the 10 most wanted fugitives of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation for carrying out a brutal
robbery of a Wells Fargo armored car in Connecticut;
Whereas, according to the Treaty Between the United States
and Cuba for the Mutual Extradition of Fugitives from
Justice, signed at Washington April 6, 1904 (33 Stat. 2265),
and the Additional Extradition Treaty Between the United
States and Cuba, signed at Havana, January 14, 1926 (44 Stat.
2392), the United States has a bilateral extradition treaty
with Cuba;
Whereas, in January 2002, the Government of Cuba deported
to the United States Jesse
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James Bell, a United States fugitive wanted on drug charges;
Whereas, in March 2002, the Government of Cuba extradited
drug trafficker Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante to Colombia,
and Gomez Bustamante was subsequently extradited to the
United States in July 2007 to face drug trafficking charges;
and
Whereas it is imperative that the Government of Cuba abide
by its extradition treaty with the United States and
immediately extradite or expel to the United States those
legally indicted or convicted of serious criminal offenses in
the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) calls for the immediate extradition or expulsion to the
United States of convicted felons Joanne Chesimard and
William Morales and all other fugitives from justice who are
receiving safe haven in Cuba in order to escape prosecution
or confinement for criminal offenses committed in the United
States;
(2) urges the international community to continue to press
for the immediate extradition or expulsion of all fugitives
from justice who are receiving safe haven in Cuba; and
(3) calls on the Secretary of State and the Attorney
General to continue to press for the immediate extradition or
expulsion from Cuba or from any other country of all
fugitives from United States justice so that they may be
tried and, if convicted, serve out their sentences.
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