Posted on 11/07/2012 5:25:56 AM PST by AtlasStalled
Saul Goodman, is that you?
Apparently you don't have to be a fictional lawyer on the AMC series Breaking Bad in order to launder drug money for the Mexican cartels.
Homeland Security has arrested Marco Antonio Delgado, a 46-year-old lawyer from El Paso, TX, for allegedly laundering more than $600 million for the Milenio drug cartel or Cártel de los Valencia in an 18-month period between July 2007 and December 2008 as reported by Lorena Figueroa for the El Paso Times. Delgado's defense attorney, José Montes Jr.,"confirmed that his client worked at Delgado & Associates, P.C.":
"According to its website, the law firm has offices in Texas; Calgary, Canada; Distrito Federal, México; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos islands. It describes itself as a 'boutique law firm uniquely designed and committed to provide its clients with unparalleled legal services in the areas of energy regulation (power and gas), alternative energy, international business, international energy, and international transaction planning.'"
It's funny because organized crime cannot operate without crooked lawyers but it's a verboten topic in polite society and political circles.
Apparently, the lawyer also has a philanthropic side, and in 1990 he founded the Marco Delgado Fellowship for the Advancement of Hispanics in Public Policy and Management at H. John Heinz III College in Pittsburgh, PA which "awards Latino students from $5,000 to full tuition per semester" as reported by KTSM.
That’s what happens when you miss a payment to one of your handlers in the federal government.
Delgado apparently was the founder of the law firm but “took a leave of absence at the beginning of 2012 to join Enrique Pena Nieto’s successful campaign for president of Mexico and is assisting as a member of Nieto’s transition team” as reported by Debrah Erdley for the Tribune-Review.
“took a leave of absence at the beginning of 2012 to join Enrique Pena Nieto’s successful campaign for president of Mexico and is assisting as a member of Nieto’s transition team”
So a cartel money laundering operation, worked for the campaign and is part of the transition team for the Mexican president. Thank goodness they never think to buy American politicians.
Wonder what his political contributions in America were?
Wonder what his political contributions in America were?
Wonder what his political contributions in America were?
A spokesman for Nieto insists that Delgado has no association with the President-elect as reported by Juan Carlos Llorca for The Huffington Post: “Clearly this person is not part of the team. We don’t know him.”
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