Genaro García Luna was convicted in the U.S. on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating. He is the highest-ranking current or former Mexican official ever to be tried in the United States.
about a huge cocaine shipment that was seized in Mexico around 2007.
García Luna’s lawyers emphasized that prosecutors’ case relied on testimony from admitted lawbreakers, without recordings, messages or a documented money trail to corroborate them. García Luna was convicted on charges that include engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, which carries a potential sentencing range of 20 years to life in prison; he also was convicted of other charges, including cocaine distribution and cocaine conspiracy. His sentencing is set for June 27.
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