NARCOMEX PRESIDENTS WERE ! NOT ! TAKING MASSIVE
BRIBES, ERGO THEIR WAR ON THE WALL!
"While other witnesses at Mr. Guzmán’s trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn have testified about huge payoffs from traffickers to the Mexican police and public officials, the testimony about Mr. Peña Nieto was the most egregious allegation yet. If true, it suggests that corruption by drug cartels had reached into the highest level of Mexico’s political establishment."
El Chapo Trial: Former
Mexican President
Peña Nieto Took $100 Million Bribe, Witness
Says
The bribe was delivered to Enrique Peña Nieto, the former
president of Mexico, through an intermediary, according to a witness at the
trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo.
By Alan Feuer
The former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, took a
$100 million bribe from Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as
El Chapo, according to a witness at Mr. Guzman’s trial.
The stunning testimony was delivered Tuesday in a New York
courtroom by Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian drug lord who worked closely with
Mr. Guzmán from 2007 to 2013, when the kingpin was hiding from the law at a
series of remote ranches in the Sierra Madre mountains.
“Mr. Guzmán paid a bribe of $100 million to President Peña
Nieto?” Jeffrey Lichtman, one of Mr. Guzmán’s lawyers, asked Mr. Cifuentes
during cross-examination.
“Yes,” Mr. Cifuentes said.
Mr. Guzmán may offer more details soon. Shortly after the
jury was excused around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Mr. Lichtman submitted his client’s
name to the prosecution as a potential witness for the defense, confirming that
the drug trafficker might testify in his own trial.
Mr. Lichtman said that adding Mr. Guzman’s name to the
witness list does not guarantee that he will testify. It is simply “possible.”
“If I didn’t put him on the list, it would possibly foreclose
the possibility for him to testify,” Mr. Lichtman said in an interview. “So, I
was just being inclusive.”
Mr. Guzmán’s testimony would be a stunning development. While
his lieutenants have shared details about the Sinaloa cartel’s operations, the
kingpin himself could offer even more intimate information, such as how he
possibly bribed a president of Mexico.
According to Mr. Cifuentes, Mr. Peña Nieto first reached out
to Mr. Guzmán about the time he was elected president in late 2012, asking the
drug lord for $250 million in exchange for calling off a nationwide manhunt for
him.
But Mr. Guzmán made a counteroffer, Mr. Cifuentes added,
saying he would give Mr. Peña Nieto only $100 million.
“The message was that Mr. Guzmán didn’t have to stay in
hiding?” Mr. Lichtman asked.
“Yes,” Mr. Cifuentes said, “that very thing is what Joaquin
said to me.”
Mr. Lichtman, quoting Mr. Cifuentes’s notes from an interview
he gave to American authorities in 2016, asked whether Felipe Calderón, who
preceded Mr. Peña Nieto as Mexico’s president, took a bribe in 2008 from one of
Mr. Guzmán’s rivals, the Beltrán-Leyva brothers.
“I don’t recall this incident very well,” Mr. Cifuentes
answered. He added moments later, “Right now, I do not remember that.”
Mr. Peña Nieto and Mr. Calderón could not yet be reached for
comment.
While other witnesses at Mr. Guzmán’s trial in Federal
District Court in Brooklyn have testified about huge payoffs from traffickers
to the Mexican police and public officials, the testimony about Mr. Peña Nieto
was the most egregious allegation yet. If true, it suggests that corruption by
drug cartels had reached into the highest level of Mexico’s political
establishment.
After testifying about the two presidents, Mr. Cifuentes
rattled off other bribes that Mr. Guzmán and his allies had paid to Mexican
officials. On at least two occasions, he said, the kingpin gave the Mexican
military between $10 million and $12 million to launch operations to “either
kill or capture” associates of the Beltrán-Leyva brothers during his war with
them.
Mr. Cifuentes also said the Mexican federal police not only
turned a blind eye to drug trafficking, but occasionally took part in it. Once,
he told jurors, traffickers gave the police photographs of several suitcases packed
with cocaine that were sent by the cartel on an airplane from Argentina to
Mexico. The police picked up the suitcases from the baggage claim, Mr.
Cifuentes said, and sold the drugs themselves.
All of this came on Mr. Cifuentes’s exhausting second day as
a witness at Mr. Guzmán’s trial. He has already confessed to a staggering array
of crimes.
On the stand, Mr. Cifuentes admitted to hatching a failed
murder plot with the Hell’s Angels in Canada. He acknowledged buying plastic
explosives from the widow of a Honduran drug trafficker. He said he paid a
judge in Ecuador $500,000 to throw out the case of an Ecuadorean military
officer accused of working with the cartel, adding that he later helped kidnap
the officer when it seemed that he was cheating Mr. Guzmán.
There were lurid hints that top Mexican leaders might have
been compromised by dirty money from the start of the trial in November. In his
opening statement, Mr. Lichtman claimed his client had been framed for years by
a conspiracy hatched by his partner, Ismael Zambada García, in league with
“crooked” American drug agents and a “completely corrupt” Mexican government,
including two of its presidents.
At the time, Mr. Peña Nieto and Mr. Calderón released
statements calling the accusations false. The judge in the case, Brian M.
Cogan, later cautioned Mr. Lichtman against making promises to the jury that
the evidence in the case would not support.
Then, as the first week of the trial came to an end, Mr.
Guzmán’s lawyers informed Judge Cogan at a sidebar conference that a coming
witness, Jesus Zambada García, Ismael Zambada’s brother, would testify, if
asked, that Mexican presidents had taken bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel.
But Judge Cogan forbade the testimony, citing the
embarrassment it would cause to unnamed “individuals and entities” who were not
directly involved in the case.
On Tuesday, however, Judge Cogan allowed Mr. Cifuentes to
testify about what he knew concerning bribes to Mexican presidents with only a
few interruptions.
At one point, under questioning by Mr. Lichtman, Mr.
Cifuentes acknowledged that his personal assistant, Andrea Velez Fernandez, had
worked for a political consultant, J.J. Rendón, who was hired by Mr. Peña
Nieto’s presidential campaign. Mr. Cifuentes said Ms. Velez had once sent him
photographs of “suitcases filled with cash.”
When Mr. Lichtman asked if the suitcases were “destined for
Mr. Peña Nieto,” prosecutors objected on the grounds of relevance.
“Agreed,” Judge Cogan said.
After that, there was no more discussion of the suitcases.
Emily Palmer contributed reporting.
vicente fox of narcomex says “muck
america!!! yOU BELONG TO US!
bUT DOES FOX
BELONG TO THE LA RAZA HEROIN CARTELS?
"Also,
Rubin did not mention the moral responsibility of the child’s father who
brought her through the desert in an apparent effort to use the
catch-and-release Flores loophole to get past border guards. The
loophole was created by Judge Dolly Gee who has ordered border officials to
release migrants after 20 days if they bring a child with them."
Mexican Presidents Deny
They Took Bribes from El
Chapo
14 Nov 201898
3:02
Two former Mexican
presidents publicly denied taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The
statements came after the legal defense for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera
made contrary claims this week.
The
drug lord is facing several money laundering and drug trafficking charges at a
federal trial in New York. In his opening statement, defense attorney Jeffrey
Lichtman spoke of bribes “including the very top, the current president of
Mexico and the former.”
Soon
after the statements became public, Mexico’s government issued a statement
denying the allegations. Eduardo Sanchez, the spokesman for current Mexican
President Enrique Pena Nieto said the statements were false and “defamatory.”
El gobierno de @EPN persiguió, capturó y extraditó al criminal Joaquín Guzmán Loera. Las
afirmaciones atribuidas a su abogado son completamente falsas y difamatorias
Former
Mexican President Felipe Calderon took to social media to personally deny the
allegations, claiming that neither El Chapo or the Sinaloa Cartel paid him
bribes.
Son absolutamente falsas y temerarias las afirmaciones
que se dice realizó el abogado de Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán. Ni él, ni el
cártel de Sinaloa ni ningún otro realizó pagos a mi persona.
Under
Guzman’s leadership, the Sinaloa Cartel became the largest drug trafficking
organization in the world with influence in every major U.S. city.
The
allegations against Pena Nieto are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican
journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel operators funneled money into the
2012 presidential campaign. The investigation was carried out by Mexican
award-winning journalist Carmen Aristegui and her team. The
subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate” for the cash cards that were
given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The allegations against Pena Nieto went
largely unreported by U.S. news outlets.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an
award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can
follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of
Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso
Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Should
We Invade Mexico?
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/07/05/should-we-invade-mexico-n2497140?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
The opinions expressed by
columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com.
One fact a lot of Americans forget is
that our country is located right up against a socialist failed state that is
promising to descend even further into chaos – not California, the other one. And
the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of the hole they have dug for
themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a new leftist presidente who wants
to surrender to the cartels and who thinks that Mexicans have some sort of
hitherto unknown “human right” to sneak into the United States and
demographically reconquer it. There’s a Spanish phrase that describes his
ideology, and one of the words is toro.
HIGHLY
GRAPHIC!
IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION… gruesome!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
BEHEADINGS
LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the
Border and Leave Heads
HIGHLY GRAPHIC VIDEO!
LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS CUT OUT HEART OF LIVING MAN.
*
MARK
LEVIN:
‘THERE
IS A BIG, UGLY SIDE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS OCCUPY
TEXAS
MCALLEN, Texas --
The capture of three top Mexican drug cartel bosses on the U.S. side of the
Texas border helps to illustrate the irony of how even narco's seek refuge from
the violence in Mexico.
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE LA RAZA MEX DRUG CARTELS
NARCOMEX in LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES – Western gateway for the MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS and MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.
Federal agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the
downtown fashion district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are
increasingly relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and
other illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.
Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million
was seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million
stuffed in banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million in
duffel bags.
"Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering
with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many
businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge
of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.
SHOCKING IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
“Heroin
is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the
United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security
because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need
to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
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