El Chapo Trial: Former Mexican President Pena Nieto Took $100 Million Bribe, Witness Says

[TexasTowelie]

NEW YORK — 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 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 Guzmán’s lawyers, asked Cifuentes during cross-examination.

“Yes,” responded Cifuentes.

The bribe was delivered to Peña Nieto through an intermediary, according to Cifuentes.

Read more: https://www.mrt.com/news/article/El-Chapo-Former-Mexican-President-trial-bribes-13536154.php
(Midland Reporter-Telegram)

[shanny]

1. lol lol lol

and there were people on this board gushing about him because he isn't rump

[czarjak]

3. Two wrongs?

[shanny]

7. Definitely.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Right wingers who butt into this progressive board didn't utter a word about Pena Nieto.

Those who absolutely didn't like him from the days of his presidential campaign most certainly mentioned his corruption.

Judi Lynn (127,507 posts)

1. "Mexico leader faces charge contractor rewarded him with mansion"

Mexico leader faces charge contractor rewarded him with mansion
By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Foreign Staff
November 9, 2014 Updated 27 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican investigative team reported Sunday that President Enrique Pena Nieto and his actress wife possess a posh mansion built to their taste by a company that has grown fat with government contracts.

Pena Nieto has not reported the mansion, worth an estimated $7 million, on his official declaration of assets in the past two years, the team said. The allegation falls on Pena Nieto at a time when he faces lagging support and public outrage over an apparent massacre of 43 students. It may also test his image as a leader who claims to battle corruption and fight for the rule of law.

Known as Casa La Palma, the mansion was built by a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, which has earned hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts under Pena Nieto, according to investigative reporters at aristeguinoticias.com, a news portal led by Carmen Aristegui, a radio and television journalist.

The mansion has an underground parking garage, an elevator, seven bedrooms, marble floors and a special system of recessed mood lighting that changes colors. Two distinctive palm trees jut above its white exterior.

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/11/09/4308871_mexico-leader-faces-charge-contractor.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

LBN post from last year:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014940481

https://www.democraticunderground.com/110842728#op

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Judi Lynn (127,507 posts)


Mexico leader faces charge contractor rewarded him with mansion
Source: McClatchy News

Mexico leader faces charge contractor rewarded him with mansion
By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Foreign Staff
November 9, 2014 Updated 27 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican investigative team reported Sunday that President Enrique Pena Nieto and his actress wife possess a posh mansion built to their taste by a company that has grown fat with government contracts.

Pena Nieto has not reported the mansion, worth an estimated $7 million, on his official declaration of assets in the past two years, the team said. The allegation falls on Pena Nieto at a time when he faces lagging support and public outrage over an apparent massacre of 43 students. It may also test his image as a leader who claims to battle corruption and fight for the rule of law.

Known as Casa La Palma, the mansion was built by a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, which has earned hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts under Pena Nieto, according to investigative reporters at aristeguinoticias.com, a news portal led by Carmen Aristegui, a radio and television journalist.

The mansion has an underground parking garage, an elevator, seven bedrooms, marble floors and a special system of recessed mood lighting that changes colors. Two distinctive palm trees jut above its white exterior.


Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/11/09/4308871_mexico-leader-faces-charge-contractor.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
5

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1014940481

[shanny]

5. I know you have his number, Judi Lynn

There were others who gushed over him for his opposition to rump. I tried pointing out that he was as corrupt as they come, And that I even had good reason to consider him a murderer but without effect. Some at least did not want to hear. Don't know how RWers got into this.

It does amuse me to see him so publicly named and in such a context. I wonder if AMLO has any recourse; it would certainly dovetail w/his anti-corruption pledge.

[GatoGordo]

6. The connection to the uber-violent drug cartels run by Diosdado Cabello don't bother you

because the Chavista regime in Venezuela, where the money is being laundered, is "progressive"?

https://dolartoday.com/el-narco-regimen-al-desnudo-muestran-pruebas-que-vinculan-al-regimen-de-venezuela-con-el-chapo-guzman/

[CatMor]

2. Interesting that Pena Nieto awarded Jared Kushner ..

Mexico's Aztec Eagle Medal the highest honor for a foreigner. Many thought it was a insult to Mexicans. Seems like he received the medal for absolutely nothing.