Man arrested in assassination of Haiti's president has ties to US senior living industry

One of the two Americans arrested in relation to the Wednesday assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moise worked for a major U.S. senior living company until earlier this year, and another major U.S. senior living company is listed on a publicly posted job history bearing his name. James Solages, whom authorities said was a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Haiti, along with another man identified as an American citizen, Joseph Vincent, told a judge that they were not in the room when Moise was killed and that they were acting as translators for others, having answered an online ad for the role, according to a Friday New York Times article. A plan to take the president to the palace — not to kill him — had been in the works for a month, the judge said the men told him. The Times said that Solages at one time had worked as a security guard at the Canadian Embassy in Haiti. A profile on LinkedIn under Solages’ name has a work history that includes time as plant operations director for Senior Lifestyle in Lantana, FL, the location of The Carlisle Palm Beach senior living community, which offers independent living, assisted living…
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