Posted on 01/15/2019 1:27:14 PM PST by TigerClaws
Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from international drug traffickers, according to a witness at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo.
The stunning testimony was delivered Tuesday in a New York courtroom by Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian drug lord who worked closely with Mr. Guzmán from 2007 to 2013, when they were hiding from the authorities at one of the kingpin’s remote ranches in the Sierra Madre mountains.
“Mr. Guzmán paid a bribe of $100 million to President Peña Nieto?” Jeffrey Lichtman, one of Mr. Guzmán’s lawyers asked Mr. Cifuentes during cross-examination.
“Yes,” responded Mr. Cifuentes.
The bribe was delivered to Mr. Peña Nieto through an intermediary, according to Mr. Cifuentes.
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Ditto! Use that money for something worth while.
Prove it, then build the wall to keep these criminals out of our country.
It wasn’t a ‘bribe’, it was an ‘insurance policy’.......................
Only “the bite” (la mordida), which is business as usual down there.
The real “Treasure of Serria Madre”.
“Plata o Ploma”—Silver or lead.
So, crank up the drones and go kill the cartels, man henchmen, women and children that have the unfortunarte life to be there.
The drug war must be active and involve destruction and killing on a maximum scale.
Kill the cartels and end their involvement in the border invasion.
That policy includes Americans in congress on the take
Over 100,000 deaths in Mexico in these drug wars, these last years and this man looked the other way.
I love how Mexicans say that Americans are immoral for wanting a wall!
This so illustrates Mexico is not a real country just a nacro state masquerading as one. Build the wall - now.
I'm shocked that you could ask such a thing.
It was merely a normal everyday Business INVESTMENT strategy.
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And if you believe that {above,} I have some ocean front property in Arizona, that I could let you have at a very fine price. /s
North of the border it’s just lobbing, not bribes.
He overpaid. For that money, he could have rented Hillary and the US State Department.
Just a “campaign donation”. Nothing to see, move along.
Overhead
any of you moralists ready to tell El Chapo no thanks, don’t need the money?
I wonder how much Fox got.
Sure, and here’s a lead tablet for his migraines.
easy to say when he’s headed to Florence CO Supermax for life.. less so when you are a Mexican politico.
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