Mexico's once-powerful former public security minister Genaro Garcia Luna was found guilty of US drug trafficking charges by a jury in New York on Tuesday
NEW YORK - A once-powerful Mexican government minister was convicted by a US jury Tuesday of aiding the very drug smuggling he was tasked with cracking down on.
After a four-week trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, Genaro Garcia Luna, 54, Mexico’s ex-secretary of public security, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the notorious Sinaloa cartel working for drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, then his cousin, El Chapo, who took over the cartel in a bloody civil war in the late 2000s.