Widow of slain Haitian President Moïse awarded multimillion-dollar payout by Miami judge

A half-dozen men convicted in the plot to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse must pay his widow and elder son $6.2 million in compensation for their loss, according to a federal judge’s restitution order in a Miami criminal case.

While the president was shot a dozen times during the brazen middle-of-the-night attack at his home in the hills above Haiti’s capital on July 7, 2021, his widow survived and was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital to be treated for her wounds.

Martine Moïse, 50, was awarded $5,305,387 by U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez for her hospital bills, travel and security that she hired when she returned to Haiti 10 days later. Her restitution was jointly recommended by federal prosecutors and defense attorneys following lengthy negotiations.

Although Martine Moïse and her representatives have asserted she was shot in the arm, her injuries have long been a source of debate in Haiti, where earlier this year she was indicted in her husband’s death along with 50 other people, some of them once close to the slain president.

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