then the world was provided a window into the gruesome inner workings of the cartels and their alleged ties to political power. during the el chapo trial, cartel memberjesus zubaydah testified that he personally delivered bribe payments to mr. garcia luna in briefcases with millions in cash. it was a bombshell allegation that the top security official in charge of taking down the cartels was all along protecting them. it s alleged he aided cocaine shipments totalling 55 tonnes. mr garcia luna responded at the time that it was a defamatory lie. garcia luna was the public face of mexico s so called war on drugs, trusted by mexico s president felipe calderon, and a partner to top us officials in the dea and fbi. so here we have yet one more opportunity to fully flesh out and understand what went wrong with the drug war in mexico and why
college. a gofundme page has been set up for the family to help make that dream come true. as we remember our dearest friend and colleague alan, say a prayer with us to sustain his family. may he rest in peace. gone too soon at age 47. john: fox news alert, cartels and their deadly fentanyl pour across the border, a major trial now underway in brooklyn could blow the lid off the u.s. and mexico s war on drugs. u.s. prosecutors say mexico s former top cop was secretly taking briefcases filled with cash from the same drug cartel he had a reputation for fighting. allowing them to safely move their product into america. sandra: what other secrets
cartel, killing rivals, and they say the 54-year-old was given briefcases stuffed with millions in cash bribes from the criminal organization. garcia luna is accused of giving the sinaloa cartel sensitive law enforcement intelligence and facing criminals in power. he is facing a max sentence of life in prison. the charges are very, very serious. essentially that he was not just working with the sinaloa cartel receiving money from them and passing information to them, but the claim is that he was actually a member of the cartel itself. truly unbelievable. there is real intrigue whether any embarrassing or damning revelations will implicate other officials. he had meetings with top u.s.
and he did that according to what he s accused of while he s portraying himself action mexico s big drug fighting hero. prosecutors described former mexican secretary of public security genaro garcia luna as one of the most valuable assets to the cartel. bryan llenas outside federal court in brooklyn, new york with this incredible story. hi, bryan. incredible indeed. prosecutors told the court today that mexico s former top law enforcement official accepted literal briefcases full of millions in bribes. in exchange, he ordered federal police forces to act as armed mercenaries killing rival cartel members and provided assistance
look, let me just walk this through. you retire from the white house whatever you do, so you re the vice president in this case, you could be the director of the nec, it doesn t matter. if you have any classified documents that you want to look at later on, let s say you re writing a book of memoirs or something like that, you have the security clearance, okay, that s fine. but, you know, you re carrying this stuff out in briefcases, and it goes to the national archives. that is the law. it doesn t go to office buildings, penn biden center, it doesn t go to home in wilmington, it doesn t go to any of those places. the first stop for all of it should be the martial archives national archives. and then if you have the security clearance and you want to go back and look at certain classified documents, etc., you do it at the archives where they ll have a skiff, or in other words if, a secure area,