UNITED STATES v. VÁZQUEZ RIJOS

Nos. 19-1305 19-1312 19-1315 20-1603 20-1604 20-1920 20-1951 21-1098 21-1100.

119 F.4th 94 (2024)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Aurea VÁZQUEZ RIJOS, a/k/a Beatriz Vázquez, a/k/a Aurea Dominicci; Marcia Vázquez Rijos; and José Ferrer Sosa, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 31, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lydia Lizarribar Masini for appellant Aurea Vázquez Rijos.

Carlos M. Sánchez La Costa for appellant Marcia Aurea Vázquez Rijos.

José R. Olmo Rodríguez for appellant José Ferrer Sosa.

Sofia M. Vickery, Attorney, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, with whom W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney, Mariana E. Bauzá Almonte, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, José A. Ruiz Santiago, Assistant United States Attorney, Jenifer Yois Hernández, Assistant United States Attorney, Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Lisa H. Miller, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Barron, Chief Judge, Lipez and Thompson, Circuit Judges.


Old San Juan, September 22, 2005, around midnight. Husband and wife Adam Anhang Uster (a Canadian entrepreneur) and Aurea Vázquez Rijos (a former "Miss Puerto Rico Petite") were walking down the cobbled streets of Puerto Rico's capital city after leaving a trendy bistro. A...

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