Gibran Rodriguez-Mejia,
31, of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges
related to laundering $3.5 million by coordinating with couriers to smuggle the
U.S. currency across the border to an exchange house in Tijuana.
Five co-defendants have
also pleaded guilty in the case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The defendant, who
holds a Mexican law degree with a specialization in business and civil law,
admitted that the funds he helped launder were proceeds from “multi-kilogram
quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin smuggled into the United
States by the Sinaloa Cartel,” according to federal prosecutors.
After the smuggled cash
was converted into pesos, prosecutors say Rodriguez-Mejia provided bank
accounts into which the money could be deposited.
From ElPeriodico:
He was arrested in December 2017 in Tijuana
(Mexico) by the authorities of his
country and extradited to San Diego in September 2018 to respond to money
laundering charges.
According to court documents, lawyer Rodríguez Mejía was part of a money laundering network made
up of more than 20 defendants, of which he is the fourth to receive a sentence.
Another of those involved in this case is César
Hernández-Martínez, who has also pleaded guilty and has his sentencing hearing
pending on December 2.
Yay !
ReplyDeleteHe needs a serious diet, Looks like he never missed a meal in his life
ReplyDeleteLeave him alone gosh!
DeleteHe's about to get one.
DeleteOf course not, look at all the money he was handling. You know he was going to eat good🤣
DeleteOk Mr nutritionist/dietician.
DeleteNot to worry, they don't serve carnitas or carne asada in prison.
DeleteCaborca, Sonora is on fire... Wtf's going on there?
ReplyDeleteEl "Chip" is trying to take the plaza.
DeleteThis guy was a lawyer??? My lawyers must have went to different law schools cuz they don't look anything like this guy..
ReplyDeleteok fatboy made enough money .. time to pay the price. At that age and with that knowledge he knew what was in store so now its time to pay the price for playing in the game.
ReplyDelete8 years and a death sentence
ReplyDeleteThe barrister is sporting a Sea Island Cotton (finest cotton in the world) T-shirt...the a V neck cut leads the eye away from his multiple double chins for this season's leaner look
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Canadian girl🤣🤣🤣 too funny!
DeleteHe ratted on somebody
ReplyDeleteAgreed. 8 seems low
DeleteNot just somebody, but everyone and everything he knew.
DeleteI don’t know if he did or didn’t but if he did. Do they let him stay in the US after he gets released? Or do they still deport him after his sentence is up.
Delete7:13 out in three, just to burn your ess, ese...
Delete...more lenient like a Canadian sentence
ReplyDelete12/2 next step . . . the fifth in line . . . no jugaren futbol?
ReplyDeleteLmao
ReplyDelete8 years for money laundering 🤔 sounds reasonable!
ReplyDeleteUno de los mas buscados en El pais de los gueros
ReplyDeletePablo Gordo
ReplyDeleteHe got 8 years for confessing to his part in the money laundering scheme, that is not snitching or rating on somebody, he was extradited too, maybe somebody was rating on everybody, the US had the goods on them already. But three million is peanuts when compared to 500+million fines to Purdue Pharma or Johnson and Johnson for their part in the opioid epidemic or the billion dollar fines on Columbia health care for frauds to Medicare, or HSBC, or other banks that GOT TO KEEP THE OTHER 90% OF THEIR ILL GOTTEN GAINS for laundering drug money proceeds and continue to do business laundering and defrauding everybody and the US government...
ReplyDelete--They should be sent to the firing squad for their financial crimes.
Verry true
Delete7:08 Famous "millie" still giving class to the Gilbertonas...
DeleteYer welcom'
He is el Gordo billetes of the antrax group in culiacan has a bounty for his head ows the cartel millions he stold him an his asociets he left to tijuana cuz of that an in tijuana is full of snitches they got him el Gordo billetes Lenin Ramirez sings a corrido for this fat dud el 666 el Chino de NY a those are his asociets
ReplyDeleteDo the anthrax allow any fat pos amongst their ranks? Smh watered down to say the least.
DeleteHe had casas de cabin in culiacan but he got greety waisted more than he win
ReplyDeleteThe way some of these comments are written, you can tell who went to skool.
ReplyDeleteHey peepol, some of us have to eat!
DeleteOthers still are fat as pigs in spite of trying to look like French models, try Fen-fen, it is not as addictive as cocaine or make you look dramatic like heroin.
It used to be cheaper back in the day too.
LMAO!
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