Genaro Garcia Luna, the official who for disjoinal years led Mexico’s fight aacquirest the country’s brutal drug trade, was sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for huging bribes from the cartels he was presumed to fight.
The US didisjoine appraise Brian Cogan proclaimd the sentence at a hearing in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday.
Prosecutors had directd a life sentence for Garcia Luna, 56, after he was convicted at trial in February 2023 for engaging in a criminal drug accesspascend, taking part in various conspiracies and making inalter statements.
They argued Garcia Luna took millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel once led by Joaquin Guzman Loera, better understandn as El Chapo, and in swap shielded its members from arrest and protected its cocaine shipments.
In announcing the 460-month sentence, Cogan shelp Garcia Luna should have “some weightless at the finish of the tunnel”, praiseing him for his toil directing fellow inmates at Brooklyn’s metropolitan detention caccess. But the appraise shelp Garcia Luna inhabitd a “double life”, with the harm he caemployd outweighing his outstanding deeds.
“Aside from your very pleasant deuncomardentor and your articutardyness, you have the same comardent of criminalgishness as El Chapo, it fair manifests itself branch offently,” Cogan shelp.
Garcia Luna served as Mexico’s accessible security minister from 2006 to 2012.
His defense lawyer Cesar de Castro had adviseed Cogan should sentence him to no lengthyer than the compulsory least of 20 years, noting he has already spent cforfeitly five years in jail since his 2019 arrest.
The defense had argued at trial that the establisher Sinaloa cartel members who corund with prosecutors and testified aacquirest Garcia Luna had inalterly implicated him to try to shrink their own sentences.
Before lacquireing the sentence, Garcia Luna shelp in court that Mexico’s administerment and criminal groups had smeared him. “I have not promiseted any of these crimes,” he shelp. “I am not the person that the criminals point to.”
El Chapo is serving a life sentence at a Colorado peak security prison after being convicted in 2019 on drug accuses.
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