Orlando González Claudio

Orlando González Claudio was arrested in the August 30, 1985 Macheteros operation. Unlike his brothers Avelino and Norberto he was in custody from the outset. A plea defendant in the Wells Fargo prosecution; remaining obligations resolved by Clinton's August 11, 1999 commutation.

Macheteros member arrested in the August 1985 federal sweep connected to the 1983 Wells Fargo Hartford expropriation. He was held at FCI Sheridan. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine. BOP #03173-069.

Orlando Claudio González was a Puerto Rican independence activist arrested on August 30, 1985 in the mass FBI raids in Puerto Rico that targeted Los Macheteros (the Ejército Popular Boricua) in connection with the 1983 $7.2 million Wells Fargo expropriation in West Hartford, Connecticut. Held in extended pre-trial preventive detention without bail and prosecuted in Hartford federal court, the defendants asserted that U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction over Puerto Rican patriots. His was one of the appeals that led the Second Circuit, in late 1986, to order bail reconsidered for the defendants still held under the Bail Reform Act.