Sentence against Garcia Luna postponed
- June 19, 2024
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A judge in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Brooklyn granted the request of the lawyers of the former Minister of Public Safety Genaro. Garcia Luna
A judge in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Brooklyn granted the request of the lawyers of the former Minister of Public Safety Genaro. Garcia Luna defers sentence In NYC.
Judge Brian Cogan set October 9, 2024 as a hearing date for former senior government official Felipe Calderon and said that guilty of drug trafficking last year.
Additionally, Garcia Luna’s legal defense has asked for a new trial, arguing that his client is a politically persecuted man and that lawyer Cesar de Castro needs more time to prepare the case because he is also involved in a lawsuit against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez. (New Jersey).
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Garcia Luna, 54, was found guilty of five counts:
Participation in the management of a criminal enterprise (Sinaloa Cartel); conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine; conspiracy to distribute and possess cocaine with intent to distribute it in the United States; and conspiracy to import the same or greater quantities.
The fifth offense was providing credit. false testimony US authorities when He applied for citizenship.
Garcia Luna may face minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment or a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
He worked for ten years in the intelligence agency of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI), whose main task was to fight criminal organizations, during the government of Vicente Fox, and was Minister of Public Security during the six-year term of Felipe Calderon.
Since 2012, he lived in Florida, from where, according to prosecutors during the trial, he regularly traveled to Mexico.
The former official, arrested in December 2019 in Dallas (Texas, USA), was in prison until the start of the trial in January 2023. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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