Attorney General Eric Holder met Tuesday with René Préval, the president of Haiti, during his first trip to the United States following the devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean country in January.

The primary focus of the meeting was to discuss drug trafficking, though the Attorney General also took the opportunity to express his sympathies for the recent tragedy in Haiti, according to a Justice Department spokeswoman.

Haiti is one of the main shipping points in the Caribbean for Colombian cocaine traffic, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration fact sheet on drug trafficking.

Préval also met with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Tuesday, and said it would be a “mistake” to rebuild Port-au-Prince as it was before the earthquake. Préval instead urged a post-quake effort to develop Haiti’s provinces, according to a report by the Voice of America.

President Obama will meet with Préval on Wednesday.

Attorney General Eric Holder and Haitian President René Préval on Tuesday (DOJ).

Hassan Nemazee

An attorney for Democratic fundraiser Hassan Nemazee on Wednesday said his client is in discussions about resolving charges he tried to defraud three banks of more than $290 million, Dow Jones Newswires reports.

Nemazee, the national finance co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, is accused of using loan proceeds from one bank to pay off another over an 11-year period, from 1998 to 2009. The banks he allegedly defrauded in the Ponzi scheme are Bank of America, Citibank and HSBC Bank USA, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York. He has been indicted on charges of aggravated identity theft and three counts of bank fraud, each of which carry a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.

Following a Wednesday hearing, Nemazee’s attorney Paul Shechtman told Dow Jones the parties are discussing a possible disposition in the case by late December. Schechtman wasn’t more specific. A disposition could include Nemazee pleading guilty to criminal charges or SDNY dropping the case. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John M. Hillebrecht and Daniel W. Levy.

The hearing is set for Dec. 21.