U.S. federal authorities have revealed for the first time that political rivals of Haiti's slain President Jovenel Moïse sought support from Haitian gangs in the days leading up to the assassination but failed to secure it.
According to documents filed in an unrelated federal weapons-smuggling case and reported by The Miami Herald, a former senator who later admitted to conspiring to kill Moïse was among those present in a meeting between politicians and criminal organization. A gang leader who attended the meeting later became one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives.
