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  • Ex-governor rearrested in Mexico, may be extradited to U.S.

    06/22/2007 5:28:55 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 11 replies · 473+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | June 22, 2007 | Dudley Althaus
    MEXICO CITY — Mexican police rearrested a former governor Thursday as he was released from prison with the intent of extraditing him to the United States to face cocaine-trafficking charges. Mario Villanueva, 58, who governed the Yucatan Peninsula state that includes the resorts of Cancun and the Riviera Maya from 1993 until 1999, was arrested at dawn, moments after finishing a six-year sentence here for money laundering. He faces federal charges in New York of taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle as much as 200 tons of cocaine into the United States while governor of Quintana Roo state. Much...
  • Democrat Congressman Bob Filner Implicated in HUD Housing Scandal

    04/23/2004 4:06:25 PM PDT · by mgiorgino · 9 replies · 305+ views
    The Chula Vista/National City Star-News ^ | April 23, 2004 | Kelley Dupuis, Michael Burgess
    Leftist Democrat Congressman Bob Filner has gotten himself into hot water. Filner has injected himself into a tenants dispute in a HUD housing complex owned and operated by the Catholic Church in San Ysidro, California. Mike Giorgino, retired-Navy Commander and Republican nominee for Congress in CA-51st has stepped in to help the tenants. Help Mike beat Filner by going to: http://www.Giorgino4Congress.com