The World - News from Aug. 22, 1989
The convicted cocaine smuggler whose case led to a Cuban drug scandal and execution of four Cuban officials has given U.S. officials details of several other rings involving ranking figures in Havana, prosecutors said in Miami. Fred Schwartz, the attorney for smuggler Reinaldo Ruiz, said his client had implicated Cuban President Fidel Castro and his brother in cocaine trafficking, but prosecutors would not confirm that. At a sentencing hearing, the prosecutor asked for a reduced sentence because of Ruiz’s substantial assistance to the government. Ruiz, who could have received a life term, was sentenced to 17 years and fined $1.1 million.
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