New York Times: Haiti’s Leader Kept a List of Drug Traffickers. His Assassins Came for It.

Haiti’s Leader Kept a List of Drug Traffickers. His Assasins Came for It.

This article excerpt features Government Accountability Project’s client, Keith McNichols, and was originally published here.

Mr. Hérard was also a drug-trafficking suspect. In 2015, when a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship docked in Port-au-Prince with 1,100 kilograms of cocaine and heroin aboard, Mr. Hérard was seen commanding police officers in uniform to load the drugs into vehicles before speeding off with them, according to a witness and Keith McNichols, a former D.E.A. agent stationed in Haiti who led the agency’s investigation into the missing drug shipment.