White House officials would not tell NBC News
Friday whether President Obama will raise the issue of 70 fugitives from
U.S. justice — including convicted cop-killer JoAnne Chesimard — who
are hiding in Cuba when he meets Cuban leaders during his upcoming
historic visit to the island.
A White House official did say, however, that
the "United States continued to seek the return from Cuba of fugitives
from U.S. justice and has repeatedly raised those cases with the Cuban
government."
Chesimard, who fled to Cuba in 1984 after
escaping from a New Jersey prison in 1979, was convicted of the 1973
execution-style murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. She
is on the FBI's Most Wanted International Terrorists list, and is the
most notorious of a group of criminals and violent radicals who have
sought refuge in Cuba since Fidel Castro took power.
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Source: NBC News
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