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 THEBats
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 Court documents say U.S. knew about coke 
#577028 - 08/06/11 10:49 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. officials let the Sinaloa drug cartel smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for intelligence about rival cartels, court documents say.
The claim was made by attorneys in defense of Mexico's Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges in Chicago, the El Paso (Texas) Times reported.
If the claim is true, it could prove to be as damaging to federal investigators as the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm's "Operation Fast and Furious," that let U.S. weapons get into Mexico, the report said.
Documents filed in U.S. federal court said the Sinaloa cartel was allowed to bring tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, The Houston Chronicle reported.
The documents also said Zambada-Niebla worked as an informant for the U.S. government while he was a known fugitive.
Zambada-Niebla's legal team wants a U.S. judge to drop charges against their client because his alleged agreement with the government reportedly promised him immunity from prosecution.
Federal prosecutors and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency declined to comment on the case.
Zambada's lawyers said as recently as 2008 his client and a top cartel lawyer allegedly met at a Mexico City hotel with two DEA agents, where he was reportedly promised immunity.
In "Fast and Furious," the ATF botched a sting to catch weapons traffickers by allowing a load of illegally purchased guns slip into Mexico. The shipment was lost and some of the guns turned up at crime scenes, including one where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/04/Court-documents-say-US-knew-about-coke/UPI-87601312468705/
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kickin-two-hundo said:
you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day. 
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 mhbound
Ballin out at all cost
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Re: Court documents say U.S. knew about coke [Re: THEBats]
#577032 - 08/07/11 01:18 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Makes me cringe.
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Suck my balls America
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DungenessDank
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Re: Court documents say U.S. knew about coke [Re: THEBats]
#577192 - 08/08/11 05:27 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Why does this not surprise me?
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