Title: A 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.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution calls for (1) the immediate extradition or expulsion to the United States of convicted felons William Morales and Joanne Chesimard and all other fugitives who are receiving safe harbor in Cuba to escape prosecution or confinement for criminal offenses committed in the United States; and (2) the Department of State and the Department of Justice to continue to press for the immediate extradition or expulsion of all fugitives from U.S. justice so that they may be tried and, if convicted, serve out their sentences.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 232 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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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.


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                   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

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                               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 Liberacion Nacional, committed numerous 
        terrorist attacks 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
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
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) calls 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;
            (2) urges the international community to continue to press 
        for the immediate extradition or expulsion of all fugitives 
        from justice who are receiving safe haven in Cuba; and
            (3) calls on the Secretary of State and the Attorney 
        General to continue to press for the immediate extradition or 
        expulsion from Cuba or from any other country of all fugitives 
        from United States justice so that they may be tried and, if 
        convicted, serve out their sentences.
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