A Staten Island congresswoman whose mom fled communist Cuba is calling on the US military to do to 94-year-old former Cuban President Raúl Castro what it did to Venezuelan dictator Nicólas Maduro — snatch him off the island and bring him to justice in an American courtroom.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told The Post on Monday of her call for action as the Department of Justice was in the final stages of unsealing a superseding indictment against Castro and five other officials over the 1996 shoot-down of two US aircraft in international waters that led to the deaths of four people, including three Americans.
Castro has been charged along with five others with seven counts of murder, conspiracy to kill US nationals and destruction of aircraft.
Malliotakis, who still has family living in the communist island,
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