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BumRushDaShow

(168,540 posts) Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:47 AM 4 hrs ago

Justice Department targets Cuban officials, aims for indictments

Source: Washington Post

Updated March 6, 2026 at 6:49 p.m. EST

The Justice Department has formed a working group to examine possible federal charges against officials or entities within Cuba’s government, according to an official familiar with the group. The formation of the group could be a significant step in the Trump administration’s public push to topple the regime in Cuba.

Officials from government agencies including the Treasury Department will be part of the recently formed group. Treasury’s involvement could mean the Trump administration is considering further sanctions against Cuba, already the subject of intense U.S. economic sanctions.

The working group is exploring potential crimes related to immigration, economics and more. Another person familiar with the working group said federal prosecutors in Florida are also working with local partners in the state to bring potential charges against Cuban officials.

The effort to bring charges against Cuban officials coincides with President Donald Trump saying that his administration is eyeing Cuba as the next country whose government might be overthrown, following the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in early January and the killing of Iran’s supreme leader last Saturday.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/06/trump-cuba-prosecution/

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Justice Department targets Cuban officials, aims for indictments (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 4 hrs ago OP

The mad King just plays with himself Walleye 4 hrs ago #1

Arrest the rapist Whip-poor-will 4 hrs ago #2

Why doesn't the majority of the world's countries file indictments against TSF? sinkingfeeling 4 hrs ago #3

Because so many people are being threatened and/or blackmailed by the Epstein class debsy 3 hrs ago #5

They're going to do a Venuzuela orangecrush 3 hrs ago #4

tRump can't even name the President of Cuba groundloop 2 hrs ago #6

Someone in Cuba must have gotten one over on Donnie dumpster debsy 2 hrs ago #7

True, either revenge or distraction, or both. debsy 2 hrs ago #8

IMO, This is his play to regain Cubans in Florida, and Latinos nationwide. ms liberty 2 hrs ago #9

Meanwhile he has been deporting Cubans like mad BumRushDaShow 1 hr ago #10

Walleye

(44,472 posts)

1. The mad King just plays with himself

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:53 AM

4 hrs ago

Whip-poor-will

(99 posts)

2. Arrest the rapist

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:56 AM

4 hrs ago

Maybe Justice doesn't need to look 90 miles away for criminals ,when King Pervert is right in town..

This is a diversion from Epstein /Trump rape club investigation, just like the war.

Talk to the Rapist's victims before going out of country to avoid Investigating. trying and locking him away from every 12 old in this country.... THAT would be Justice.

sinkingfeeling

(57,698 posts)

3. Why doesn't the majority of the world's countries file indictments against TSF?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:14 AM

4 hrs ago

debsy

(887 posts)

5. Because so many people are being threatened and/or blackmailed by the Epstein class

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 08:18 AM

3 hrs ago

Decades of lawlessness and zero accountability while they burn down the world.

orangecrush

(29,903 posts)

4. They're going to do a Venuzuela

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 08:15 AM

3 hrs ago

groundloop

(13,745 posts)

6. tRump can't even name the President of Cuba

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 08:22 AM

2 hrs ago

It's Miguel Díaz-Canel, who was educated as an electronics engineer.

This is just another distraction from the tRump-Epstein Files.

debsy

(887 posts)

7. Someone in Cuba must have gotten one over on Donnie dumpster

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 08:24 AM

2 hrs ago

Someone and their associates are now in Donnie’s sights for revenge. He doesn’t do anything unless it’s in response to him looking bad for something. Unfortunately for the world, he, much like his autocratic counterparts, doesn’t have the mental capacity to look on the mirror.

debsy

(887 posts)

8. True, either revenge or distraction, or both.

Reply to debsy (Reply #7)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 08:27 AM

2 hrs ago

One thing we can be sure of: whatever he is doing has nothing to do with the welfare and security of the American people, never mind the rest of the world.

ms liberty

(11,164 posts)

9. IMO, This is his play to regain Cubans in Florida, and Latinos nationwide.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 09:17 AM

2 hrs ago

I don't think it will work.

BumRushDaShow

(168,540 posts)

10. Meanwhile he has been deporting Cubans like mad

Reply to ms liberty (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 09:53 AM

1 hr ago

To their shock, Cubans in Florida are being deported in record numbers

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Heidy Sánchez took her 17-month-old daughter to a routine check-in last April with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tampa, Florida. During the appointment, federal authorities told her that she was being detained and that her husband should pick up their daughter, who was still breastfeeding. Two days later, Sánchez, 44, who worked as a home health aide, was deported.

Sánchez’s story quickly spread across social media, in part because she is Cuban, a group that had long been treated differently than other immigrants, even when they entered the country illegally. That has changed under President Donald Trump.

He has repatriated more than 1,600 Cubans in 2025, according to the Cuban government. That is about double the number of Cubans who were repatriated in 2024. And in the years that Trump has been president, he has sent more Cubans back than his three predecessors.

Those numbers are greater for Cubans who were deported by land into Mexico. Some of them had been in the United States for decades and built families and businesses, but were removed because of an old criminal conviction — say, from Miami’s infamous cocaine cowboys days in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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(originally published in the NYT - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/cubans-florida-deportations-trump.html)

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