Cuba returns fugitive 40 years on the run to the U.S.

Source: Gainseville.com

A man who fled to Cuba after he was convicted of mail fraud more than 40 years ago was expelled from the island Wednesday and sent to Miami where U.S. Marshals arrested him.

Joseph Adjmi, 70, was sentenced in 1963 to 10 years in prison but disappeared before serving his sentence, according to a statement released by the U.S. State Department.

Last year, Cuban officials alerted the U.S. that Adjmi was in their custody for fraud-related crimes he'd committed on the island. They intended to expel him upon his release and asked the U.S. to take him, said State Department special agent in charge Ed Moreno.

Moreno called Cuba's decision to return Adjmi unusual but not unprecedente

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Adjmi's extradition comes as Venezuela and Cuba are calling on the U.S. to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, a militant Cuban exile and aging ex-CIA operative suspected in a decades-old Cuban airliner bombing. Posada, 79, was living in Venezuela at the time of the airplane bombing and escaped from jail while awaiting trial in the case. Venezuela wants the U.S. to try him or send him back there.

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More US hypocrisy in refusing to extradite Posada while Cuba cooperates with US law enforcement.

and also their first and last names too.

Cuba sends fugitive to face U.S. justice after 4 decades
http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/86881.html

Adjmi thus joined a short list of fugitives returned by the Cuban government over the last four decades of communist rule under Fidel Castro. It was the second return of a fugitive since Fidel's brother Raúl temporarily took over the government in Havana after Fidel stepped down for intestinal surgery. The first was David Ray Franklin, who allegedly stole a plane in Marathon and flew to Cuba with his young son last year. He was returned Oct. 27.