'El Chapo' paid former Mexican president $100 million bribe: trial witness

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https://news.yahoo.com/witness-el-chapo-trial-describes-alleged-100-million-204631704.html

(Reuters) - Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman once paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, a former associate testified on Tuesday that he previously told U.S. authorities.

Alex Cifuentes, who has described himself as Guzman's onetime right-hand man, discussed the alleged bribe under cross-examination by one of Guzman's lawyers in Brooklyn federal court. Asked if he told authorities in 2016 that Guzman arranged the bribe, he answered, "That's right."

Cifuentes testified that he had told U.S. prosecutors Pena Nieto reached out to Guzman first, asking for $250 million. Cifuentes told the prosecutors that the bribe was paid in October 2012, when Pena Nieto was president-elect, he testified.

Cifuentes said he told prosecutors at a later meeting, last year, that he was no longer sure of the exact amounts of the bribes, but did not elaborate.

[Turbineguy]

1. El Chapo sounds like the kind of guy

Trump would like to be friends with.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. "I've been hearing good things. Tremendous things. Great guy!" nt