CORRUPT JUROR'S DAD SENTENCED TO 9 MONTHS

Miami - A man who joined in spending after his son sold a jury vote for
nearly half a million dollars to free a pair of alleged cocaine kingpins was
sentenced Friday to nine months in prison.

Jose Moya, 58, pleaded guilty to witness tampering. He also will spend three
years on supervised release after his leaving prison.

After being sentenced, Moya looked at his wife, shrugged and made a
quizzical face.

His son, Miguel Moya, was foreman of the jury in Miami that in 1996
delivered federal prosecutors an embarrassing defeat, The defendants in that
trial - Augusto "Willie" Falcon and Salvador "Sal" Magluta - were allegedly
the nation's biggest cocaine traffickers in the 1980s, making $2 billion by
smuggling 75 tons of the drug into this country from Colombia.

Falcon and Magluta now are imprisoned on other charges.

Soon after the 1996 acquittals of Magluta and Falcon, the Moyas' standard of
living rose sharply. They bought a home in the Florida Keys, vacationed in
Hawaii, and bought jewelry and season tickets for the Florida Marlins.

Miguel Moya's sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 12. He faces up to 138 years
in prison. --