Posted on 05/11/2019 3:52:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A top Colombian cartel boss pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to having bribed a top federal investigator with cash and prostitutes in order to have an indictment against him successfully dismissed. Jose Bayron “Cacheton” Piedrahita Ceballos appeared before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola this week in Florida where he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government by bribing a federal agent. He is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on July 19. Federal authorities extradited Piedrahita from Colombia on April 5, 2019, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Court documents obtained by Breitbart News revealed that prosecutors named Piedrahita in a 1996 federal indictment against the Cali Cartel. He also had an active arrest warrant from June 20, 1996, until October 21, 2011, when he managed to get the drug trafficking indictment dismissed.
To get the criminal charges dismissed, Piedrahita and another Colombian drug lord, Juan Carlos “Cabezon” Velasco, gave $20,000 in cash and several prostitutes to a top-ranking U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agent in the area. Court documents revealed that HIS Agent Cristopher Ciccione was the case agent for a large-scale drug trafficking operation targeting the Cali Cartel called Cornerstone.
Velasco arranged for a meeting between Ciccione and Piedrahita in Bogota where the drug lords treated the agent with expensive dinners, drinks, and prostitutes in order to get him to help them avoid prosecution.
Ciccione obtained a visa for Piedrahita by claiming that he had cooperated with investigators and that he was never fully identified in the indictment and was not wanted in the U.S. Prosecutors also claimed that Ciccione altered government records and then tricked the U.S. Attorney’s Office into dismissing the initial indictment against Piedrahita...
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That would do the trick for me.
Only $20K...
Seems cheap...
“Seems cheap...”
You left out the hookers. Sealed the deal apparently.
And the Columnian marching powder buffett.
Not bad for a Fed agent..........
So, how long will we have to wait until the inevitable “pictures, or it didn’t happen” post? My guess is within 10 min.
“Prostitutes”
I might get burned for saying this but those Latina’s in Colombia, can turn an American mans heart to the dark side if need be.
Good to hear that the old reliables still do the trick.
If a man’s small head is thinking for his large head, almost ANY woman can turn an American mans heart to the dark side.
I really needed the laugh! Thinking that Latinas bits and pieces can seduce a man better than another nationalities!
When a man is looking for sex, almost any female will do.
Sorry to bust your preference bubble!
Was Mr. Ciccione a democrat voter?
Just curious.
Forget about it.
In my younger days I had a Latina drive me to the brink of insanity.
Still not sure if I ever made it back.
Cheap payoff.
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