Adopted daughter of George W Bush’s intelligence director John Negroponte sentenced in friend’s drunken murder

The adopted girl of erstwhile President George W. Bush’s Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte has been sentenced to 35 years successful situation for the fatal stabbing of a person aft a drunken statement wrong a Maryland Airbnb six years ago.

Sophia Negroponte, 33, was sentenced connected Friday by Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Terrence McGann aft being recovered blameworthy astatine proceedings successful November of second-degree execution for the decease of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen. It was a retrial aft a 2023 condemnation connected the aforesaid complaint was overturned.

"The 35-year condemnation mirrors the condemnation imposed pursuing the archetypal proceedings successful 2023," Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said, per The Associated Press. "This is an due and conscionable result successful airy of the seriousness of this transgression and the accordant findings of 2 abstracted juries who cautiously evaluated the evidence."

Sophia Negroponte, left, was convicted of second-degree execution successful the stabbing of erstwhile precocious schoolhouse classmate, Yousuf Rasmussen, right, successful February 2020. On Friday, Negroponte was sentenced to 35 years successful situation for the killing.  (Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office )

Negroponte was archetypal convicted of second-degree execution successful 2023 and received the aforesaid 35-year sentence, but successful January 2024, a Maryland appeals tribunal threw retired the conviction, calling for a caller proceedings successful circuit court.

The appeals tribunal ordered a caller proceedings aft ruling jurors improperly heard contested portions of a constabulary interrogation and grounds questioning Negroponte’s credibility.

Sophia Negroponte was 1 of 5 Honduran children who were abandoned oregon orphaned that John Negroponte and his wife, Diana, adopted aft Negroponte was appointed U.S. ambassador to the Central American state successful the 1980s, according to The Washington Post.

Sophia Negroponte and Rasmussen attended the aforesaid Washington precocious schoolhouse and had been drinking, on with different person, connected the nighttime Rasmussen was killed, McCarthy said previously. They argued doubly that night, and Rasmussen near the home.

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Ambassador John Negroponte, vice president of McLarty Associates, speaks onstage during the 2022 Concordia Lexington Summit astatine the Lexington Marriott City Center connected April 8, 2022, successful Lexington, Kentucky. (John Negroponte )

When Rasmussen returned to get his cellphone, Negroponte "stabbed him aggregate times, 1 being a decease stroke that severed his jugular," McCarthy said.

A 911 telephone prompted region and metropolis officers and occurrence rescue unit successful Rockville, Maryland, to respond to an Airbnb spot connected Feb. 13, 2020, astatine astir 11:16 p.m. Negroponte, past 27, was recovered wrong the location covered successful humor and lying connected apical of Rasmussen, yelling, "I’m sorry," according to charging documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

Rasmussen was pronounced dormant astatine the country and Negroponte was brought into custody, wherever she allegedly told investigators that she did not retrieve attacking the antheral but recalled arguing implicit a "silly issue" and aboriginal removing a weapon from his neck.

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Negroponte with erstwhile President George W. Bush successful February 2005 successful Washington, D.C.  (Charles Ommanney/Getty Images)

President George W. Bush appointed John Negroponte arsenic the nation’s archetypal quality manager successful 2005 pursuing the 9/11 violent attacks. He aboriginal served arsenic lawman Secretary of State. He besides antecedently served arsenic ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations and Iraq.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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