Mexico’s ex-public security chief sentenced to 38-plus years in US for taking cartel bribes
Mexico’s former public security chief is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court after being convicted of taking bribes to aid drug traffickers.
Mexico’s Ex-Security Chief Sentenced to 38 Years for Cartel Bribery
The stiff penalty was the potentially final step in the stunning downfall of the former official, Genaro García Luna, who has gone from the heights of power to imprisonment.
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Judge Cogan said that aside from his “very pleasant demeanor and articulateness,” García Luna had the “same type of thuggishness as El Chapo,” the former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison by the same judge.
Mexico's Ex-security Chief Sentenced To Over 38 Years In US Prison
Mexico's former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna was sentenced to more than 38 years in a US prison on Wednesday for aiding the very drug cartels he was tasked with dismantling.
Mexico ex-drug czar sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison over cartel bribes
Genaro Garcia Luna, who for several years led Mexico's fight against the country's violent drug trade, was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 38 years in U.S. prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight.
Former top police official in Mexico sentenced to 38 years in prison for aiding cartels
Genaro García Luna was found guilty of accepting millions of dollars to offer police protection to El Chapo's violent Sinaloa drug cartel, thus helping to move thousands of tons of cocaine into the U.
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Former Mexico 'drug czar' sentenced to 38 years in prison in the US
Genaro García Luna was originally arrested in 2019 and found guilty last year of providing intelligence to the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel.
Mexico's ex-security chief sentenced to nearly 40 years in U.S. prison for taking bribes from cartel run by "El Chapo"
Genaro García Luna was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect the violent Sinaloa cartel that he was supposedly combating.
Mexico’s former public security chief sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for taking bribes from drug cartel
Mexico’s former public security chief sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for taking bribes from drug cartel
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