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Hernández Advised Against Testifying in NYC Drug Trial
12/20/2025
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- Lawyers advised Juan Orlando Hernández, former Honduran president, not to testify in his 2024 trial in New York City.
- Sam Bankman-Fried, serving a fraud sentence, encouraged Hernández to take the stand.
- A court convicted Hernández of conspiring to import over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
- Bankman-Fried has become a jailhouse lawyer, helping inmates.
