{"id":189744,"date":"2010-02-17T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/17\/8-of-10-jailed-haitians-released\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T01:56:00","slug":"8-of-10-jailed-haitians-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/17\/8-of-10-jailed-haitians-released\/","title":{"rendered":"8 of 10 Jailed Haitians Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/18\/world\/americas\/18haiti.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">two apparent ring leaders remain in custody<\/a>, and as a condition of their release, they must return later to Haiti to answer investigator questions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">While Judge Saint-Vil\u2019s ruling allows eight of the Americans to leave Haiti on the condition that they return to the country to answer further questions in the case, it requires that Laura Silsby, the Idaho businesswoman who led the group, and her live-in nanny, Charisa Coulter, remain in jail to answer questions about traveling to Haiti before the Jan. 12 earthquake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Some of the freed Americans had already <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">contended this month that they were misled by Ms. Silsby<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">, who had <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">faced more than a dozen legal complaints connected to her online shopping business<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> before she persuaded fellow Baptists from Idaho to assist her in setting up an orphanage for Haitian children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">\u201cWe are disappointed that all in the group are not being released,\u201d said Terry Michaelson, a lawyer for Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho, where five of the detainees, including Ms. Silsby and Ms. Coulter, attended church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The church mission\u2019s lawyer had put <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">forward about $7,000<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> to help pay for the first month\u2019s rent for the orphanage that Ms. Silsby planned to establish in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Some of the freed Americans had already contended this month that t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">hey were misled <\/span>by Ms. Silsby, who had <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">faced more than a dozen legal complaints connected to her online shopping business before she persuaded fellow Baptists from Idaho to assist her<\/span> in setting up an orphanage for Haitian children.&#8221;<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>This is beginning to sound like something written by Dashiell Hammett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two apparent ring leaders remain in custody, and as a condition of their release, they must return later to Haiti to answer investigator questions: While Judge Saint-Vil\u2019s ruling allows eight of the Americans to leave Haiti on the condition that they return to the country to answer further questions in the case, it requires &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1068,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-latin-america","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}