Posted on 06/08/2016 11:46:05 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
Snce the fall of 2012, U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel has quietly presided over hundreds of cases from a spacious wood-paneled courtroom on the second floor of the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego, drawing little attention outside the tightknit federal legal community.
Its a building that Curiel is familiar with, from his 13-year-long tenure as a narcotics prosecutor with the U.S. attorneys office in San Diego, eventually rising to chief of the unit.
There, from 1989 to 2002, he built a reputation as a tough, effective lawyer in charge of a special task force charged with dismantling the Arellano-Felix drug cartel an assignment that earned him round-the-clock protection from the U.S. marshals service for a year while under a death threat from the cartel. [...]
Curiel worked as a federal prosecutor in San Diego from 1989 to 2002. For five years, from 1996 on, he was the coordinator of the Arellano-Felix task force, staffed with four other prosecutors and two dozen federal agents. It was during that time that investigators were told by an informant that Benjamin Arellano Felix had approved a hit, or murder contract, on Curiel, according to Vega. For a year, Curiel lived under guard. He was moved from his home to a Navy base in San Diego, then for a time assigned to San Francisco and Washington until the threat abated, Vega said.
Curiel played a major role in a crucial step in the campaign against the Arellanos when he worked to get top cartel lieutenant Arturo Kitty Paez Martinez extradited from Mexico in 2001. It was the first time that a Mexican citizen had been extradited to face charges here a precedent that cleared the way for the continuing extradition of drug figures in the 15 years since.
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No doubt he’s a brave man. It also seems that Trump U was a bit skeezy. The fact is though, the man belongs to an organization dedicated to the interests of the Latino community according to its mission statement on it’s website. Justice is supposed to be blind.
Do the geniuses at the LAT understand that this information has nothing to do with racism/bias/misconduct in the Trump U. trial? Journalism must be the choice of the lowest quintile.
We’re not talking cartels. We’re talking interference with all Trump’s businesses.
We’re also talking LaRaza involvement of the judge, as well as other LEO, including Garcia and the mayor of San Jose.
Sure he battled the Mexican cartel, quietly. He is STILL a member of several LA Raza Law organizations. He still abides by their beliefs.
No one remembers Mena, Arkansas any more, that is old news.
By joining a lot of Hispanic organizations, the judge probably has hopes for a higher court or for high political office.
But I think Trump wants to set an apparently bad race-based precedent without sufficient justification.
I haven’t found any evidence that the judge is out-of-line or has mishandled a case.
Trump should let his lawyers make his case.
As General Patton pointed out after WW2, ambitious people often join dubious organizations to get ahead.
"With all due respect, you are mistaken on the power of the Federal courts to hear the case against Trump University."
With all due respect Jimmy McGill, I clearly indicated that my concern was if Trump University was alleged to have broken federal laws that the states have never constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to make.
Diversity-of-citizenship jurisdiction is in the Constitution (Article III, section 2, gives federal courts jurisdiction over "Controversies... between Citizens of different States"). The plaintiffs are citizens of California; Trump is a citizen of New York.
I forgot about that.
I was thinking of Boston's Whitey Bulger informing on his competition, while being protected by corrupt FBI agents (fmr agent John "Cannoli" Connolly is or was doing time in FL on a murder charge. Graduate of Camelot High, like Bill O'Reilly, who never gets tired of reminding people).
I should have done some scratching before I posted.
I cannot eliminate the possibility that Trump is taking arrows because hes a very popular presidential candidate.
Mea culpa Jimmy McGill.
After getting other replies similar to yours, although I knew about the federal governments multiple state jurisdiction, I had evidently gone into tunnel vision mode with concern for unconstitutional federal laws.
If I had taken an extra minute to do some more scratching ...
Yeah, and Benedict Arnold “battled” the British at Saratoga. So what?
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