Read below why the families who peddle drugs together, stay together (sob).
File photo shows exterior of upscale NJ home involved in "OPERATION UNBOUNDED," a DEA-NJ Division joint investigation of a $1 million-per-week cocaine ring, and money laundering organization responsible for the distribution of large quantities of cocaine from sources across the US and other countries to NJ and the surrounding area. This home served as the base of operations and is owned by drug lord Vicente and his wife Chantal Esteves who is charged with money laundering.
From left to right: Hector Rodriguez, 41, Michael Lopez, 36, and Cesar Cabrera-Cepeda, 40, all entered guilty pleas to aiding Vicente Esteves, 37, launder cash proceeds of the drug sales.
Esteves admitted he ran the cocaine ring and was laundering the proceeds to finance a lavish lifestyle for his family that included a million dollar gated suburban home, 100 Rolex watches and expensive shoes for his wife. He now faces up to 25 years in prison.
Esteves implicated several of his alleged co-conspirators as he answered questions about the drug activity he orchestrated in Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Georgia, as well as several counties in New Jersey, all with drugs he imported from the Dominican Republic through an Atlanta receiver.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree racketeering, first-degree drug possession and first-degree money laundering as part of a plea agreement. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Prosecutor's Office will recommend he be sentenced to 12 years in state prison with a stipulation he serve a minimum of five years behind bars before he is eligible for parole. "Mr. Rodriguez did what he thought was best for him and his family, in light of the circumstances," defense attorney John Perrone said. "At this point in time, he wants to do his time and move on with his life."
Lopez pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of his plea agreement with the Prosecutor's Office. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors will be asking he be sentenced to time served and a period of one to five years of probation. Cabrera-Cepeda accepted a negotiated plea offer from the Prosecutor's Office. In exchange for his guilty plea to one count of third-degree conspiracy to commit money laundering, prosecutors will ask Cabrera-Cepeda be accepted into pretrial intervention program.
Cabrera-Cepeda is a Dominican Republic national who is legally in the country, but may now face deportation because of his guilty plea. Rodriguez, Lopez and Cabrera-Cepeda — free on bail — were in the courtroom when Esteves entered his guilty plea and answered questions that implicated them. Esteves did not implicate his wife, Chantal, who is charged with conspiracy and money laundering. Chantal Esteves was also in the courtroom to hear her husband plead guilty.
Authorities say Esteves' lawyer Paul Bergrin - in recorded conversations -- solicited an informant to help Esteves in his drug trafficking operation, according to legal papers prepared in support of the prosecutor's argument for no bail.
In those legal papers, authorities say Bergrin has significant contacts in other countries, including the Dominican Republic, Japan and Costa Rica, and they say, based on information they have received from someone, he has five false passports.
Bergrin is now charged with racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy, murder of a federal witness, and conspiracy to murder a federal witness and, separately, witnesses in a state case, as well as Travel Act violations and conspiracy to commit Travel Act violations.
A US government report says Mexican criminal organizations have more than doubled heroin production in a year and have cemented their grip as the predominant wholesale suppliers of illicit drugs in the United States. The National Drug Threat Assessment concluded that Mexican groups were the only drug trafficking enterprises operating in every region of the United States. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com .........
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WHY DOES OHAHA SUPPORT THIS? Ohaha supports it b/c druglords are South American Marxists. Ohaha figures he's got a good thing going----he can spread Marxism quickly throughout the US via these Marxist creeps bringing drugs and illegal human cargo through VZ and Cuba into the US.