$73M Award: Miami Federal Judge Darrin Gayles Rules in Case of ‘Murder-for-Hire’
Judge Darrin P. Gayles. Courtesy photoNEWS
The estate claimed that President Nicolás Maduro’s secret police threw Fernando Alberto Albán out of a 10th-floor window to stage a suicide.
September 16, 2022 at 04:17 PM
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What You Need to Know
- The estate of Fernando Alberto Albán accused the defendants of a murder-for-hire plot, torture and additional allegations.
- U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Miami entered a $73 million judgment, according to the publicly filed final judgment.
- A Latin American legal expert said the venue of the case was problematic and could cause international tension.
While the Venezuelan government claimed an opposition activist Fernando Alberto Albán leaped from the 10th-floor window of a police building, a federal district court judge in Miami entered a judgment in the tens of millions of dollars, finding the victim died in a “murder-for-hire” hit.
But a Latin American expert is raising questions about choice of venue.
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