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We’ve all heard the conspiracy theories: The United States government funded a political assassination in (insert nation here). And while there has been some truth to those theories over the years (see the Church Committee report), rarely does the federal government just come out and admit its money funded an assassin’s paycheck — like it did Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida Thursday announced a 20-year sentence for Keegan Harricharan, 42, of Coral Springs, after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Harricharan, along with several others, used pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to finance “the conspiracy to overthrow the Haitian government and assassinate President Moïse on July 7, 2021, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)…