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TexasTowelie

(112,196 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 04:53 AM Jun 2015

Ex-Mexican Governor Charged In Texas Money-Laundering Case

CORPUS CHRISTI (June 19, 2015) An ex-governor of the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas has been charged with money laundering in Texas.

Eugenio Hernandez Flores and his brother-in-law, Oscar Gomez Guerra, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Corpus Christi.

Both men, who remained fugitives Friday, are charged with conspiring to launder monetary instruments and aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business.

Gomez was indicted last year on money laundering charges and also named in the indictment returned May 27 and unsealed Thursday.

Read more: http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Ex-Mexican-Governor-Charged-In-Texas-Money-Laundering-Case-308482651.html

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Ex-Mexican Governor Charged In Texas Money-Laundering Case (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2015 OP
Pretty nifty bit of cash to have ripped off over a short term. He really should be caught. Judi Lynn Jun 2015 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. Pretty nifty bit of cash to have ripped off over a short term. He really should be caught.
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 07:01 PM
Jun 2015

Had to look for photos of this elected governor of Taqmaulipas who decided he probably should get more money than he was entitled to take.

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Thanks for the news.

By the way, does this guy remind anyone of the Philadelphia Mafia luminary, Nicky Scarfo?


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