Posted on 02/07/2012 8:30:21 PM PST by iowamark
Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama’s re-election campaign.
The casino owner, Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, known as Pepe, jumped bail in Iowa in 1994 and disappeared, and has since been linked to violence and corruption in Mexico. A State Department cable in 2009 said he was suspected of orchestrating the assassination of a business rival and making illegal campaign donations to Mexican officials...
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...
Last fall, Carlos Cardona and another brother in Chicago, Alberto Rojas Cardona, began raising money for the Obama campaign...
Pepe Cardona is one of the largest players in Mexico’s violent and tumultuous casino trade...
The State Department cable said he was suspected of illegally funneling $5 million into Mexican political campaigns in 2006...
Pepe Cardona, who was born in Mexico, was active in civil rights issues at the University of Iowa and became president of the Student Senate. While at the university in 1990, he was accused of misspending student government money, and a year later he was criminally charged with defrauding associates in a telemarketing company he started, according to court records.
In 1998, federal prosecutors obtained approval from a judge to quash the drug indictment, wiping clean Pepe Cardona’s federal court record. However, his current legal status in Iowa, where a county judge had ordered him jailed in 1992, is more precarious...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
NOT A CHANCE! (this headline is for media consumption only)
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Greta is on this story, too...
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2012/02/07/something-is-really-really-really-fishy-with-this-mexico-obama-calderone-quashed-indictment-weird/
SOMETHING IS REALLY REALLY REALLY FISHY WITH THIS ! This story has everything! MEXICO, OBAMA, CALDERONE, politics, violence and 1998 QUASHED INDICTMENT? WEIRD…
by Greta Van Susteren Posted in: casino, Mexico, political donors
The whole damn Buckwheat administration is “fishy”, not just this particular story. There is no doubt in my mind that the money will not be returned physically, just in the headlines printed by his “media”.
Headlines always say that campaigns “will return” illegal donations but does anybody ever check to make sure it actually happens?
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