Homeland Security's Mayorkas should be ousted for Clinton favoritism, 'disgusted' retired cops say

Two former lead narcotics investigators said they are "disgusted," but not surprised, with the government report finding that Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas inappropriately helped secure visas for foreign investors that benefited his Democrat friends – including Hillary Clinton's youngest brother, Anthony Rodham.

Back in 2002, Mayorkas, then a Bill Clinton-appointed Los Angeles U.S. Attorney, was found by a congressional committee to have inappropriately pushed for clemency for convicted drug dealer Carlos Vignali, who happened to be the son of big-time Democratic Party donor Horatio Vignali.

Horatio Vignali, an Argentinian immigrant who built a fortune in Los Angeles, stopped at nothing to free his guilty son – paying the then-first lady’s brother, lawyer Hugh Rodham – $200,000 to work on convincing President Bill Clinton to grant him clemency.

Fast-forward 15 years, to a report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General office last Tuesday that concludes that Mayorkas, as head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, created the appearance of favoritism and special access by improperly speeding up the processing of visa requests for foreign investors to benefit other Democrats, including Anthony Rodham and his financing company.

“It’s disappointing and disgusting,” said Gerry Wehr, a retired lead investigator in the Vignali case told Fox News Latino, adding “there's always something going on with the Clintons.”

This is a very big story: LA’s Underground Power Broker May 26, 2005 Tony Adams and his partner, Gerry Wehr, smelled something fishy when they arrived in Los Angeles back in 1994 to arrest Carlos Vignali, the target of one of Minnesota’s biggest drug cases. The Minneapolis narcotics officers had caught the 22-year-old Vignali on a wiretap conspiring to distribute crack cocaine in the Twin Cities. They checked into the Hilton on Grand Avenue under names known only to their local contacts at the DEA. Within hours, they say, they received a call from defense lawyer Anthony Brooklier, who represented an alleged associate of Vignali. Strangely aware of how to contact the visiting officers, Brooklier, a high-paid mouthpiece for celebrities and accused gangsters, wanted to know what the officers were up to. Soon they would discover that Brooklier’s client had fingered not just Carlos Vignali but also Vignali’s father, Carlos “Horacio” Vignali, as major drug traffickers. Brooklier wasn’t the only one who seemed ahead of the game. A local DEA agent told Adams and Wehr right where to look for the younger Vignali and showed them written statements offered by Brooklier’s client, who described in detail how the elder Vignali allegedly ran drugs out of his auto-body shop on Figueroa Street, near the L.A. Convention Center. The DEA report intrigued the Minnesota cops. During their four-day stay in Los Angeles, after taking in a Dodger game, they staked out the body shop and quickly grew suspicious about father Vignali. But they returned to Minnesota with more questions than answers. It would be eight years before a congressional investigation produced DEA documents, one dating as far back as 1976, that described Horacio Vignali as an alleged underworld figure who boasted of trafficking in heroin. More here: http://www.laweekly.com/news/las-underground-power-broker-2140006

This could be a very important and major story if someone(s) can provide a timeline for the cocaine smuggling/importation and distribution operations of papa Carlos Horacio Vignali in the LA area. Look for the 1980’s/early 90’s time period.

If you find anything worthwhile, contact me here at FR and I’ll forward it to some interested journalists.

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