{"id":459354,"date":"2023-01-05T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=459354"},"modified":"2023-01-14T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:04:56","slug":"daughter-of-former-u-s-intelligence-director-john-negroponte-convicted-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/daughter-of-former-u-s-intelligence-director-john-negroponte-convicted-of-murder","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte convicted of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte has been found guilty of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old man after a drunken argument inside a Maryland home. A Montgomery County jury Tuesday convicted Sophia Negroponte, 29, of second-degree murder in the February 2020 death of Yousuf Rasmussen, news outlets reported. She faces up to 40 years in prison at her March 31 sentencing. Sophia Negroponte was one of five abandoned or orphaned Honduran children whom John Negroponte and his wife adopted after he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the Central American country in the 1980s, according to the Washington Post. Sophia Negroponte and Rasmussen attended the same Washington high school and had been drinking, along with another person, on the night Rasmussen was killed, Montgomery County State&#8217;s Atty. John McCarthy said. They argued twice that night, and Rasmussen left. When Rasmussen returned for his cellphone, Negroponte &#8220;stabbed him multiple times, one being a death blow that severed his jugular,&#8221; McCarthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Negroponte was found guilty of fatally stabbing a man after a drunken argument inside a Maryland home and faces up to 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}