Exhibit - United States v. David T. Hines

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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida · No. 1:21-cr-20011-DPG · Doc. 52-1 · 2021-05-09 · Docket on CourtListener

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The Honorable Marcia G. Cooke  
U.S District Judge 
Dear honor, my name is Georgette Pomposo, David’s wife and I am writing this letter to 
share with you who David Hines is.  
I meet David about 2.5 years ago, since then we have been together as a couple, and it 
seems like a short time but we have shared many and very important moments and experiences. I 
have included a few pictures at the end of the letter to show you the type of person David is. 
He have become one of the most important person in my life, He is an amazing loving 
father, husband and person, David, chose to take care of me and my son from the very beginning, 
he chose to be there with us and for us. Any hesitation he chose to take the responsibility of 
being a father for my son and raise my son next to me since my son was 2 years old. He 
considers Patrick his son too and my son call him daddy.  
 
David is a very noble man and I see how much love he has for our son. When I see how 
David is with Patrick (who is the most important person in my life) the interactions and the love 
that they both have for each other is indescribable. My son is just 5 years old and have a strong 
personality but David has so much patience with him and has such a loving way to teach him that 
David is the only person that Patrick really listens to.  
 
Since Patrick started eating solid foods he struggled a lot with food selectivity. He  
would only eat 2 specific food items in a specific presentation and would not try new foods. It  
was very frustrating for me because even when I took him to therapy and spoke with doctors,  
they couldn’t find a way to make my son even try something different he did not even want to  
touch new food. David was determined to teach Patrick to eat and at the time i said great, but  
honestly i didn’t think that it would work because I feel that i have tried every method and so  
for me i was just hoping that one day because he is growing he just gonna start eating new  
things but David told me that he had a method to teach him and we just needed to be patient;  
so he started, and the first few weeks we literally sit at the table for every meal. David stayed  
at the table for more than 3 hours sometimes just feeding him and talking to him. David was  
there without moving just talking to Patrick making him eat with games with different  
strategies. He teaches my son with so much love, and I just couldn’t believe how my son after  
years of eating just two things, David in a few weeks dedicated so much time and he taught  
Patrick to enjoy new foods. Now he eats literally everything we feed him and that is something  
that i am always going to be grateful for. This is just one example of so many things David has  
taught Patrick.  
 
Patrick has spoken only Spanish since he was 1.5 years old and  speak Spanish with  
my son because I didn’t speak English before I met David and my ex-husband, the biological  
father of my son speaks Spanish too, so my son didn’t speak English at all before, and he  
stopped going to the daycare 2 months before the Covid-19 start. Since then, David started  
teaching English to Patrick and now my son speaks fluent English because of him.  
 
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Since this situation happened a lot of things have changed in our lives. Before, I was  
usually at home taking my son to the daycare or the park doing errands etc, and my husband  
was the one who was working and supporting our family. Now i am the one who is working  
and supporting the family financially, i am working driving with Uber and i am able to work  
and do it because we are a team and he stays at home with Patrick while I work because David  
and Patrick are my only family here. My mom lives in Venezuela and my brother in France.  
So the truth is that David is my only family and support in this country.  
 
I admire my husband a lot, i admire the man he is, how loving, noble and sensitive he  
is. Mostly, I admire his honesty and how committed and dedicated he is. He has worked since  
he was 17 years old in many different kinds of job, in warehouse, in restaurants bussing tables  
and in moving companies, until he chose to start his own business at 24 years old achieving all  
he has achieved at a professional level in his business like being in the top 10 of best moving  
companies in the country with a company he started from zero and that is something really  
valuable and admirable despite his childhood and the fact that he didn’t go to school. He started  
a business from scratch by himself and made it a very successful business.  
 
It is inevitable to talk about drugs because I feel this has had a big impact in David life.  
I don’t take out the responsibility that we all have for our decisions in life, we are adults and  
we make our own decisions. Since I meet him i saw that he has been struggling with drugs for 
long time that was something shocking to me because I have never met someone who had tried 
and used so much drugs. I am very grateful to God for my parents and my family for my 
childhood and that i was raised with so much love and normality, and i said this because David 
wasn’t too lucky in that aspect. I am no one to blame him or his parents for anything but I truly 
believe that is not fair for a kid being jumping around living in different houses with uncles, 
aunts, mom, dad, grandma’s, etc. I can’t imagine how horrible that was for David felling rejected 
for his parents and living in other states with other family because his parents were struggling 
their own problems. A kid who was getting maybe one phone call a month or less from his 
parents and he asking in every phone call that he wanted to be with his mom, is not fair for a kid 
have to live with uncles and not even know why his parents chose to send him there, or worse, 
felling completely rejected by his parents without knowing what he did wrong to be there.  
 
Also, it is heartbreaking to think that your own father is the one who give you drugs to  
try when you are only a child. As I said at the beginning I don’t take out the responsibility of  
our actions as an adult and I know David is the one who truly believe that his decisions in life  
are not his parents fault. He doesn’t blame them or believe that his childhood affects his adult  
decisions related with drugs, but I truly believe that our childhood is fundamental for who we  
are and how we are as a person and have a lot of influence in our decisions in life. One of the  
reasons I believe he is so loving, noble and sweet is because his lack of love from his own  
parents that are the people that should be there the most when we are kids no matter how they  
feel, but I know David was lacking love. And I don’t use drugs i have never even tried drugs,  
but i feel that the struggle that David has had for years abusing drugs is maybe looking for  
something to help him to feel good somehow, which i also know that drugs just make it worse,  
it is not something that will really help him to feel better but also worse and this is something  
that now he knows too.  
 
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David is a person who believes a lot in God and has a lot of faith in God for everything.  
He knows that he has made bad decisions in his past; But in my opinion I truly believe  
that the biggest problem has been the abuse of drugs because all the mistakes and wrong things  
that David has made in the past was under the effects of drugs. I know for a fact that David since 
i met him has been struggling with drugs and wanted to quit but it hasn’t been easy for him.  
When I meet him, he chose to soon be sober for 3 months but then he started again abusing 
adderall being on and off, he was quitting and taking the pills again he was for a moment very up 
and down, his mood sometimes was sad sometimes depressed sometimes happy etc. People 
couldn’t see how he really is because he was hiding behind drugs and he couldn’t show himself 
even when he was trying, and every occasion that he got in some trouble in the past he was under 
the effects of drugs or alcohol.  
 
Thank God he could see in some point how much drugs can change and hide who he is 
and make him make bad decisions or irresponsible decisions. Recently, he started being sober 
 And I admire who he is and how much he has learned from the past and his wrongs because 
despite his childhood or his mistakes he has learned to be an amazing man, an amazing husband 
an a wonderful father, and he has chosen to give everything he can and be the best version of 
himself for our family giving something that he never had when he was a kid but he is doing an 
amazing job being the man he is today and I am very proud of him. 
 
 
David is an extremely generous person, it doesn’t matter how much or how little he can 
has, he will give it to anyone just to help. I remember couple of months before this happened he 
met a man named Roger that is homeless and David was paying for Roger to live in a hotel so he 
can be comfortable. He also bought an electric bike for him because Roger have some physical 
disabilities. Also I have seen many time how Davud help in many different way and many 
different people. He is always being there for people. He has always been supporting and there 
when anyone needs him in every aspect. 
 
Also I sincerely believe that we are responsible for our mistakes but we are not our 
mistakes, that doesn’t define who we are, and is very important to me the capacity that David has 
to learn from his wrongs.  
 
David has brought to my life lots of love and joy and i am very grateful to God for our  
family. He is a good person and I truly believe that his wrongful actions are the result of a past  
of abuse of drugs that I know he really regrets.  
 
Thank you your honor, for taking these words into consideration, and for taking the time 
to read this letter that I wrote with respect to support my husband, David Tyler Hines.  
Respectfully,  
Georgette Pomposo Yéspica  
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David and Patrick 
 
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David, Patrick, and me 
 
 
 
David, his mom, Patrick, and me 
 
 
 
 
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Our family over the holidays 
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