Posted on 02/21/2023 1:08:11 PM PST by AuntB
Genaro García Luna, once the architect and public face of Mexico’s bloody war on its powerful criminal groups, was convicted on Tuesday in a New York courtroom of betraying his country and colleagues by taking millions of dollars in bribes from the violent drug cartels he was meant to be pursuing.
The guilty verdict, which came after three days of deliberation in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, was a stunning downfall for Mr. García Luna, a jut-jawed former law-enforcement officer who was so enmeshed in his country’s security establishment that he was often described as the J. Edgar Hoover of Mexico.
The jury reached its decision after hearing testimony from a half-dozen seasoned narco-traffickers, determining that Mr. García Luna had led a double life and was secretly on the payroll of Mexico’s biggest crime group, the Sinaloa drug cartel, nearly the entire time he ran the country’s equivalent of the F.B.I. and then served as its public security secretary, a powerful cabinet-level post.
Mexicans have long suspected that government officials at the highest levels of power have been in league with the very gangsters who for decades have inflicted pain and suffering on their country. snip
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He was arrested in Los Angeles. I'm amazed the NY Times actually mentioned this!
"For all of the details that the trial revealed about the Mexican drug trade — gory murders, descriptions of huge drug shipments and a reference to a white cat named Cocaine — one subject rarely came up: What American officials knew about Mr. García Luna’s ties to the cartel at a time when he worked closely with U.S. law enforcement officers in Mexico and met with top political figures like former attorney general Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton, the onetime secretary of state.
Mr. García Luna continued his relationships with some U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officers he met in office after he left Mexico in 2012 and moved to Miami where he opened a private security firm that specialized in Mexican issues. In a statement to Judge Brian M. Cogan without the jury present, a prosecutor said on Thursday that Mr. García Luna’s security consulting business was “highly dependent on his continued relationship with corrupt officials in Mexico.”
The trial raised some tantalizing — but inconclusive — questions about other top officials in Mexico, including former President Felipe Calderón and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the current president."
It’s all connected! The cartels, Carlos Slim, the Clintons, Bush, Bidens and the open border!
Carlos Slim lost 5.1 BILLION DOLLARS in the stock market the morning Hillary lost. That is almost George Soros entire fortune! He was assured HRC would win THAT election was fixed too! Trump simply won by TOO MUCH to lose!
There was NO peaceful transition of power to the Trump administration. That is the real story! And the Bush’s either let it happen to ALL of us or were square in the middle of that coup de tat against Trump!
SEE: https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Carlos+Slim+Helu
snips: [The New York Times] has vociferously promoted more immigration from Mexico. Slim profits exorbitantly on calls between the two countries, but the New York Times’s obvious conflict of interest in promoting Mexican settlement in America, which promotes its second largest stockholder`s wealth, is almost never remarked upon (or noticed).”
~~~ Volume 24, Number 4 (Summer 2014) Issue theme: “Billionaires for Open Borders”[Snip] For perspective, Slim’s holdings equate to a full 6 percent of Mexico’s GDP; in comparison, Bill Gates’ share of American GDP is around 0.04 percent. Considering the power and influence he has in his country, along with the fact that Mexico is home to over half of America’s illegal immigrants, Carlos Slim should be one of the central figures in the ongoing immigration debate. ~~~~
In a Apr 7, 2015 Forbes article about Jeb Bush’s ties to Mexico (AN eye opener!) it is noted: After leaving the Governor’s mansion in 2007, Jeb continued to cultivate his connections to Mexico’s powerful elite. In the summer of 2008, Jeb traveled to Mexico the same day Senator John McCain, the then presumptive Republican presidential nominee, paid a high-profile visit to Mexico City. Together McCain and Jeb visited the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s blessed saint. Later McCain and Bush dined at the U.S. Embassy with some of Mexico’s most powerful businessmen, including Carlos Slim Domit, telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú’s older son. As the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression was unfolding in 2008, Jeb Bush had signed on as consultant to Lehman Brothers, where he was enlisted to reach out to Slim Helú in a plan code-named Project Verde (Green Project) aimed at bailing out Lehman, The New York Times reported. Slim wasn’t dumb enough to waste his money. But don’t you wonder what Bush offered him.
From: Jeb Bush To: Casner, Matt Sent: Sat Jul 05 09:41:31 2008 Subject: Re: Project Verde was unsuccessful. He did not express interest in jv or stock purchase. he did say he would be interested in looking at assets for sale. [snip] ~~~~
Carlos Slim and The Obama/Biden Administration ( of note is that Hunter and Joe meet with Carlos Slim! https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2022/03/hunter-bidens-laptop-and-carlos-slim.html )
Slim was often guests of the Obamas and attended State Dinners. At this one on May 19, 2010, Hillary Clinton, attended as Secretary of State. Others: The President & First Lady Michelle Obama The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice President of the United States Dr. Jill Biden, Mr. Carlos Slim, América Móvil, Inbursa, Grupo Carso, MexicoMs. Eva Longoria-Parker, Los Angeles, CA (this woman is everywhere with the dnc) Mr. George Lopez, Los Angeles, CA (fall down drunk in public Lopez - classy move Obama!) Ms. Whoopi Goldberg, Whoop Productions, New York, NY
From a news clip on May 6, 2013: President Barack Obama wrapped up a less than 24 hour trip to Mexico City last week by meeting privately with a group of top Mexican businessmen that included Carlos Slim Domit, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Carso and the eldest son of Carlos Slim Helú, the world’s richest person. From the U.S. side, the binational dialogue will be led by Vice President Joe Biden. The goal is to strengthen economic integration beyond the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
When Vice-President Joseph Biden travels to Mexico this week to meet with the country’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, he will not be speaking with an enlightened democratic leader but a representative of the nation’s corrupt oligarchy.”
How fitting. Looks like Biden always talked with the corrupt of nations. They speak his language.
OBAMAPHONES Perhaps you noticed last week that one demand of Pelosi for Covid relief is renewing the free phone fiasco of Obama/Biden. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced her own emergency coronavirus stimulus bill on Monday, leading furious Republicans to argue that much of the proposal contained a progressive wishlist seemingly unrelated to the crisis — including several provisions that amount to a resurrection of the notorious “Obamaphone” program, GOP officials said.
A comprehensive 2017 report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that that the “Obamaphone” program, which gave cell phones to poor people under the broadband benefit, stashed $9 billion in private bank accounts and was”rife with fraud,” the Washington Times reported at the time. The GAO report found that about 10.6 million people have an Obamaphone, but 36 percent of them may not qualify. The audit also concluded that more than 5,500 people were found to be enrolled for two phones, while the program was paying for about 6,400 phones for persons the government has listed as dead, the paper reported. Once the lucrative deal was sealed on Obamaphones, purchased from TracFone, fraud took over. It was never about helping the poor. It was about helping Obama/Biden and Carlos Slim.
TracFone is owned by Mexican multibillionaire Carlos Slim Helu.
There are no un-corrupt “officials” in Mexico, and there never will be.
Anyone with a shred of honesty would never get further then running a store, and even that maybe not.
Place needs to be walled off.
Uh, I'll take pretty much all elected officials in Mexico for a thousand Alex.
Yep! And we need to send a bunch of democrats and Rinos down there for good... Romney, Ryan, The Cheney’s, Bush’s, Bidens... all of them bought and paid for by the cartels.
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Carlos+Slim+Helu
Looks like he quit making payments to the biden crime family and others in DC.
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Half the corrupt in D.C. are on the drug cartel payrolls.
They get paid big to ensure the border stays wide open.
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I thought you left.
Look up Mexican in the dictionary and you get:
Mexican (noun) - cartel member
Sounds like he figured out how to stay alive and be a Mexican security official.
Still dying. Sorry to disappoint
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The world is going to hell and all you can research is me??
You are what is wrong with this country.
Plata o Plomo - bump for later....
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“Still dying.”
Oh. I had no idea. I am sorry and did not know this. I thought you had just decided to leave FR.
I will pray for you and your health condition.
first link relates to matters from 2020:
21 Feb 2023: Daily Mail: How a missing 400kg cocaine shipment sparked Sydney’s bloody underworld war and a bitter feud between NSW Police and federal cops
$100million cocaine haul vanished in 2020
Some NSW Police figures claim AFP confiscated haul
Missing drugs sparked gangland tensions
By ELIZA MCPHEE
The police dispute over investigation methods is also behind an AFP complaint to US ambassador Caroline Kennedy which led to two American Drug Enforcement Administration agents being sent home.
Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw told the US embassy his officers were having problems with the DEA agents, the Daily Telegraph reported.
‘The DEA and the state cops have a similar view of thinking the long game where they substitute the drugs and try to follow it,’ a senior officer said.
‘Federal police are very quick to just seize the drugs. Problem with that is the syndicate just get another consignment in the works.’...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11773517/Missing-cocaine-shipment-caused-Sydney-gang-war-police-AFP-feud.html
this one is current, and involved 365kgs of coke. can’t help thinking there may be a connection between the two - same cartel, perhaps?
17 Feb: ABC Australia: How a West Australian cocaine bust in Peaceful Bay unfolded after three men rescued from floating esky
ABC Great Southern / By Briana Fiore
A “sleepy” Australian seaside town made international headlines this month when a capsized boat was dragged to shore full of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/how-a-wa-cocaine-bust-in-peaceful-bay-unfolded/101987216
You know...we must be telepathically linked!
I was literally just thinkin the same thing!!
I think another big time politico in the defense establishment was arrested some time ago but was let go because the Mexican President intervened. Can’t remember the name.
Some of these guys were instrumental in getting Holder to sign off on the great gun smuggling project (Fast and Furious) back in the day. Cast as a covert operation to track guns smuggled into Mexico, I believe it was actually a operation to assist the Sinaloa cartel to arm an army of sicarios to fight the rival Tijuana cartel. Remember that one of Chapo’s lieutenants who was convicted and put into solitary confinement offered to tell the story behing this and about the US official (s) who he claimed were paid over a 100 million to protect the Sinaloa franchise.
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