CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
A U.S. judge in Texas on Wednesday sentenced a former governor of a northern state in Mexico to three years in prison following his guilty plea last year in a money laundering scheme, prosecutors said.
Former Coahuila state Gov. Jorge Juan Torres López, 67, had pleaded guilty to money laundering in June 2020 in Corpus Christi.
The U.S. Department of Justice said that Torres, who is not a U.S. citizen, is expected to face removal proceedings after he serves his sentence. He served as governor of Coahuila, which borders Texas, for much of 2011.
Prosecutors said Torres worked for the Mexican government from 1994 to 2011 and had served in other roles as well. Prosectors said he admitted that during some of his time in office, he conducted financial transactions in the U.S. to conceal bribes he had gotten in return for road-building contracts in Coahuila.
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Jorge Juan Torres Lopez, 59, was the interim governor of Coahuila in 2011. He left office when it was discovered that the state was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.VANGUARDIA
CORPUS CHRISTI For nearly a decade, prosecutors from San Antonio to Saltillo, Mexico, have depicted Hector Javier Villarreal Hernández as a poster boy for cross-border corruption.
The former treasurer of the border state of Coahuila is at the center of allegations that officials in Mexico stole hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers and laundered the money through South Texas banks and real estate.