Former boxing fan favorite, welterweight and junior middleweight champion Ricardo Mayorga, 29-7-1, may have been spared a harsh prison sentence from a rape accusation in exchange for political support and cash in his native Nicaragua, in a cable released by the infamous Wikileaks.
The controversial news released a published confidential U.S. intelligence document that stated that Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega offered protection to the popular boxer during his rape trial in 2004.
“In September 2004, boxer Ricardo Mayorga allegedly raped a young woman in a Managua hotel. Sensing an opportunity to blackmail Mayorga, Ortega and the FSLN agreed to protect the boxer in the courts if he would give the party a large portion of his international boxing winnings and “advertise” for Daniel in public.
Mayorga agreed, and an FSLN judge found him not guilty in December. Much of Mayorga’s winnings now reportedly go to Ortega, and when Mayorga fought in Chicago in August 2005, he dedicated the fight to Daniel, wore the FSLN colors, and flashed the number of the FSLN slot on the Nicaraguan electoral ballot (“casilla”) to the international media.”
http://ringsidereport.com/?p=8058What a filthy, filthy piece of scum Ortega is.
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