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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 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. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 5, 2019 

Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. RUBIO) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

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. 

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 

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tacks 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 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 


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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 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) calls for the immediate extradition or expul3 sion to the United States of convicted felons Joanne 

4 Chesimard and William Morales and all other fugi5 tives from justice who are receiving safe haven in 

6 Cuba in order to escape prosecution or confinement 

7 for criminal offenses committed in the United 

8 States; 

9 (2) urges the international community to con10 tinue to press for the immediate extradition or ex11 pulsion of all fugitives from justice who are receiving 

12 safe haven in Cuba; and 

13 (3) calls on the Secretary of State and the At14 torney General to continue to press for the imme15 diate extradition or expulsion from Cuba or from 

16 any other country of all fugitives from United States 

17 justice so that they may be tried and, if convicted, 

18 serve out their sentences. 

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