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A Cuban pilot accused of lying on immigration forms\u2014and now indicted in a 1996 shootdown along with Raul Castro\u2014has been sentenced to seven months in prison. <\/p>\n

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Luis Raul Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez, a retired lieutenant colonel of the Cuban Air Force, was sentenced for fraud in a visa or residency applications and providing false testimony to a government official.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez arrived in the United States through a humanitarian parole program.\u00a0According to prosecutors, while applying for permanent residency a year later, he concealed nearly 30 years of Cuban military service history.<\/p>\n

He will likely only have to serve a week in prison in the case because he’s already served time in jail. <\/p>\n

The indictment unveiled last week against Cuban leader Raul Castro in the shootdown of two planes flying with the humanitarian organization Brothers to the Rescue also names Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors allege that he was among the pilots involved in the pursuit of a third civilian aircraft, the only one that managed to escape. He faces murder and conspiracy charges. <\/p>\n

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His alibi fell apart when the federal government declassified a photograph showing him wearing an olive-green military flight suit next to a fighter jet and alongside fellow defendant Lorenzo Alberto P\u00e9rez P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n

After confirming his ties to the Castro-aligned armed forces, investigators laid out his exact role in the deadly 1996 attack that left four pilots dead\u2014three U.S. citizens and one U.S. resident.<\/p>\n

Luis Dom\u00ednguez, a researcher with the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, reviewed transcripts of military communications submitted to the United Nations and managed to unmask the defendant\u2019s secret alias: \u201cCode 22.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now 65, he will face an ultimatum from the U.S. justice system: decide whether to cooperate with prosecutors and testify against the Castro leadership, or risk a murder trial that could cost him life in prison \u2014 or even the death penalty.<\/p>\n

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