Posted on 02/07/2012 11:03:35 AM PST by therightliveswithus
Some developing news in the case of Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, who is a fugitive on drug and fraud charges. In 2009 it was discovered that he was involved in a plot to assassinate a rival and bribe Mexican officials.
This has gone public, as has his $200,000 in fundraising done for Barack Obama. Obama has now returned the money, but the scrutiny on Cardona continues. It now appears that Cardona's links to the organized crime world also ties him to the DEA, which ran Operation Fast and Furious. Cardona was allegedly involved with a top drug cartel across the border, which laundered millions with the help of the American government.
Just recently, his brother Carlos attempted to his Juan pardoned by the Democratic Party out of Iowa:
As recently as January of last year, one of Mr. Cardona’s brothers in Chicago, Carlos Rojas Cardona, arranged for the former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party to seek a pardon from the governor for Pepe Cardona, according to prosecutors in that state. None was forthcoming.
Wikileaks exposed a US Consulate cable that showed five million dollars in bribes that the Cardona brother had paid to Mexican politicians, and also exposed that they may be linked to the Beltran Leyva drug cartel!
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.com ...
Maybe he's getting all of his ducks in a row and plans on hitting them with irrefutable evidence.
Didn’t I just read something about PayPal and HSBC under investigation ?
I was up wayyyyyyyyyyy too early this AM and remember seeing something about paypal and hsbc somewhere.
Do you have a link for the Corsi article ?
Right, (supposedly)
How do we know they gave the money back. Bill and Hillary were always “giving back the money”, but whenever it was asked if they actually gave the money back the subject was changed quickly, and no answer was ever given.
This is another area where President Reagan’s slogan of “trust by verify” would be applicable.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/us-hsbc-probe-idUSTRE80O1FH20120125
“Law-enforcement scrutiny is increasingly focused on narcotics proceeds moving between the U.S. and Mexico.”
That would be of course “trust BUT verify”. Sorry ‘bout that.
I don’t believe they actually give the money back. They just tell the media that they do.
dont hold yer breath...if a common citizen had so much evidence against themselves, theyd be waiting on the trial from behind a locked door...
such would surely speed up the whole process, rather than continuing the dog & pony show and allowing the perps to not only survive, but enjoy promotions and further destruction of more common citizens...
at some point, rope-a-dope will lose the fight on points...
Maybe he’s waiting for Oct surprise to assure that BO and all his minions will be wiped out in the election.
Somebody needs to take this and fully complete the circle.
Start with:
Cardona donates hundreds of thousands to Obama campaigns, Holder and Obama vigorously fight any attempts to crack down on illegals, Holder and Obama turn a blind eye to money laundering involving DOJ assets and drug cartels, Holder and DOJ funnel guns to cartels in an attempt to destroy second amendment rights, Cardona continues to donate thousands more to Obama Campaign.........
Looks like a lot of Quid pro Quo and back-scratching here. Cardona funnels money to campaigns, Obama funnels guns to Cardona’s Cartels and helps launder money under the guise of ‘Investigations’, Cardona’s Cartels use guns to commit crimes that help furthur Obama’s agenda.
Thanks for the link ~
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2843232/posts
Major Obama Donors Tied to Fugitive Who Fled to Mexico
The New York Times ^ | Monday, February 6, 2012 | Mike McIntire
As recently as January of last year, one of Mr. Cardona’s brothers in Chicago, Carlos Rojas Cardona, arranged for the former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party to seek a pardon from the governor for Pepe Cardona, according to prosecutors in that state. None was forthcoming.
Last fall, Carlos Cardona and another brother in Chicago, Alberto Rojas Cardona, began raising money for the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Cardona brothers, who have no prior history of political giving, appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the world of Democratic fund-raising, Democratic activists said.
Although the two brothers live and work in Chicago, they maintain ties to Pepe Cardona in Mexico. Alberto Cardona operates an advertising agency in Mexico that has worked for political candidates backed by his brother, according to public records and Mexican news reports. Public records also show that the domain name for the Web site of a restaurant Pepe Cardona owns is registered to Alberto Cardona.
Obama campaign officials said most of the money raised by the Cardona brothers came from themselves and other relatives, donations of about $200,000. In addition, the campaign was identifying other donations, believed to total less than $100,000, that was bundled from other people.
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Whatever the family’s motivation, the president cannot pardon someone for state crimes. On Monday, Democratic fund-raisers who have had encounters with Alberto and Carlos Cardona expressed surprise upon learning about their family history. Manuel Sanchez, a Chicago lawyer who is deeply involved in Latino outreach for the Obama administration, said he first met them in December at a finance committee meeting for the president’s campaign in Washington.
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One of them, a long exposé in September by a Mexican magazine, Proceso, chronicled Pepe Cardona’s relatively swift rise to fortune and notoriety in Mexico after fleeing the American authorities. He obtained Mexican gambling licenses, and with help from investors in Louisiana, he started opening casinos in and around Monterrey, eventually becoming known as Mexico’s “casino czar.”
The article reported that Tango Media, an advertising company it said is owned by Alberto Cardona, worked on the campaigns of politicians favored by Pepe Cardona in communities where he owned casinos. It also said Carlos Cardona was involved in one of Pepe Cardona’s business deals.
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http://thegazette.com/2011/10/16/fall-from-grace/
Casinos connected to drugs, politicians
Gambling has boomed in Mexico in recent years.
Proceso has reported that the number of gambling enterprises went from 123 in 2000 to at least 790 in 2011. An estimated 12,000 people work in the industry.
Monterrey, the third-largest metro area in Mexico, has been the scene of escalating violence from rival drug cartels. Gunmen entered the city’s Casino Royale on Aug. 25, setting a fire that trapped patrons and killed more than 50 people.
“I follow the cartels, and they are extremely active in the casinos,” said George Grayson, a government professor at Virginia’s College of William & Mary. “The corruption in that segment of the economy is ubiquitous.”
Rojas-Cardona was in the middle of this web, according to the 2009 diplomatic cable released on WikiLeaks.
“A source familiar with casino operations in the area reported Ibarra was arrested after returning from a meeting with Juan Jose (‘Pepe’) Rojas Cardona, who is widely believed to have orchestrated Rogelio Garza (Cantu)’s assassination,” according to the cable.
Cantu, murdered in June 2009, was known as the “El Diablo” and “Czar of Strip Clubs” and owned a large casino and several strip clubs in the Monterrey area, the cable states.
“Since casino licenses are assigned by the federal government to specific individuals, Rodrigo (sic) Garza’s casino will no longer be able to operate, thus allowing the Rojas brothers to consolidate control of casinos in the Monterrey region,” the cable states.
The Rojas-Cardona brothers had close ties to the Beltran-Leyva drug cartel and to politicians in the National Action Party, according to the cable. Sources told the U.S. Consulate that the brothers illegally donated $5 million to two politicians and gave a helicopter and free advertising to a political candidate.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/22/2514751_p3/corruption-in-mexico-casinos-takes.html
Rojas-Cardona signed a plea agreement on the felony trafficking charge in June of that year, but by September he’d skipped bail and vanished.
In late 1998, federal prosecutors asked a judge to quash the arrest warrant and lift the indictment, a practice that sometimes indicates a defendant has become a federal informant.
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Rojas Cardona, Alberto
Chicago,IL 60611 Information Requested 10/28/11 $30,800 DNC Services Corp (D)
Rojas Cardona, Alberto
Chicago,IL 60611 Tango Latin, Inc 10/28/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, Alberto
Chicago,IL 60611 Tango Latin, Inc 10/28/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, Leticia
Brentwood,TN 37027 Self-Employed 12/2/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, Leticia
Brentwood,TN 37027 Self-Employed 12/2/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, V Carlos
Chicago,IL 60601 Tango Productions 12/1/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, V Carlos
Chicago,IL 60601 Tango Productions 12/1/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
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http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticlePrinterFriendlyNLJ.jsp?id=1202425831872&slreturn=1
Obama’s Chicago friends take a shot at predicting the president-elect’s priorities
Lynne Marek / Staff reporterContactAll Articles
The National Law Journal
November 6, 2008
Chicago lawyers who have been longtime friends and supporters of President-Elect Barack Obama expect his legislative priorities will focus on healthcare, immigration and education. Obama is likely to push hard during his first year in office for “comprehensive immigration reform” that will let some 12 million undocumented residents stay in the U.S., said Manny Sanchez, who raised $10 million from the Hispanic business community for his friend’s campaign.
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Hispanics flex political power - Dem candidates woo growing demographic
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, September 2, 2007
Author: Jennifer Hunter, The Chicago Sun-Times
EXCERPT
Loquacious lawyer Manny Sanchez has photos of the famous scattered throughout his office, propped up against the window sill, nailed onto the wall, sitting on his bookshelf — actor John Malkovich, quarterback Joe Montana, Hillary and Bill, and, in a central spot, one of Barack Obama , with Sanchez and his wife, Pat Pulido Sanchez.
Obama is lucky to have Sanchez, 59, as one of his local Hispanic champions. Not only does Sanchez know everyone, he is a superlative fund-raiser and schmoozer, with a network nonpareil. And he has been assembling a nationwide “kitchen Cabinet” of high-profile Hispanics to advise Obama .
Sanchez sensed early that Obama was going places. “I have been a Barack Obama supporter since he first campaigned against Bobby Rush,” he explains during an interview in his office. “If you get in on the ground floor, you might be remembered.”
Sanchez says Obama is “not a traditional Democrat, a member of the Democratic elite. He is an outsider like us, and he brings the potential for a new kind of leadership.”
http://www.sanchezdh.com/announcements/president-obama-gives-founding-partner-a-shout-out
05-Oct-2011
President Obama Gives Founding Partner a Shout-out
President Obama gave Founding Partner, Manny Sanchez and wife Pat a shout-out at the Cinco de Mayo White House Reception. Click on the following link to see video of the Cinco de Mayo event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHE96OcQHgU
President Obama Announces Members of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
http://southchicagoan.blogspot.com/2011/10/seeking-latino-money-to-bolster-obama.html
People with ties to the entertainment industry, or those in other professions who want to be able to say they checked out some Hollywood glamour, will show up for a party at the home of actors Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas.
AMONG THOSE WHO were supposed to show up was actor Eva Longoria and television hostess Giselle Fernandez, along with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and various attorneys from around the country who head powerful law firms.
Including one attorney from Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago – Manny Sanchez, who founded the law firm of Sanchez, Daniels & Hoffman, LLP.
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The last such request came in the final days of the term of Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, and was filed by Gordon Fischer, a lawyer who is a former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party. In his pardon application, Mr. Fischer explained that he knew Pepe Cardona from his days at the University of Iowa. Mr. Fischer declined to comment on Monday, citing attorney-client privilege.
http://bradshawlaw.com/attorneys/detail.cfm?id=49
Gordon R. Fischer
...
Iowa Democratic Party
• Chair, 2002-2004
Drugs, guns, gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, money laundering. How special.
The Obama campaign says so. What possible reason would they have to lie?
Now I'm furious. Just imagine the 24/7 press coverage if this story happened in the George W. Bush administration.
"Alleged money-laundering scheme by global finance giant involved billions"
Good to see that the MSM are picking up on the story -- at least until it leads to links to Obama..
Here is the source of the story (above link)
The Sanchez quote is stunning.
Great Job.
Hispanics flex political power - Dem candidates woo growing demographic
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, September 2, 2007
Author: Jennifer Hunter, The Chicago Sun-Times
EXCERPT
Loquacious lawyer Manny Sanchez has photos of the famous scattered throughout his office, propped up against the window sill, nailed onto the wall, sitting on his bookshelf — actor John Malkovich, quarterback Joe Montana, Hillary and Bill, and, in a central spot, one of Barack Obama , with Sanchez and his wife, Pat Pulido Sanchez.
Obama is lucky to have Sanchez, 59, as one of his local Hispanic champions. Not only does Sanchez know everyone, he is a superlative fund-raiser and schmoozer, with a network nonpareil. And he has been assembling a nationwide “kitchen Cabinet” of high-profile Hispanics to advise Obama .
Sanchez sensed early that Obama was going places. “I have been a Barack Obama supporter since he first campaigned against Bobby Rush,” he explains during an interview in his office. “If you get in on the ground floor, you might be remembered.”
Sanchez says Obama is “not a traditional Democrat, a member of the Democratic elite. He is an outsider like us, and he brings the potential for a new kind of leadership.”
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“The Sanchez quote is stunning.”
Puts this quote in context ....
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CHICAGO A NEWCOMER TO THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS HAS SEEN ENOUGH TO REACH SOMECONCLUSIONS ABOUT RESTORING VOTERS’ TRUST.
Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - Saturday, August 3, 1996
Author: JOE FROLIK NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
EXCERPT
Before entering the race, Obama said, he spoke to about 30 elected officials in the district, which includes the integrated, middle class neighborhood around the University of Chicago as well as some of the city’s poorest precincts.
“Not one asked me where I stood on an issue,” he says, smiling.
“What they cared about was, `Who sent you? How much money you got?’
His answers were apparently good enough; the party backed his nomination.
MSM moves into overdrive, calls conference calls and now starts to cover all of this up but just in case this goes more public then they have their cover story.
If any of the MSM ever read this then I want you to know that you lot are nothing but a bunch of lying biased, sack of crap groupies for the Dem apart of who you all vote for.
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