US prosecutors tie Honduras president to drug trafficker

U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that Honduras' president met a drug trafficker around 2013 and took $25,000 in exchange for protecting the trafficker from law enforcement.The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York issued a statement referring to President Juan Orlando Hernández only as a "high-ranking Honduran official" or as "CC-4," a co-conspirator.In previous filing, U.S. prosecutors have described “CC-4” as the winner of the 2013 presidential elections.