Genaro Garcia Luna was found guilty by a federal jury of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise that included six drug-related violations.
Mexico's Secretary of Public Safety Genaro Garcia Luna attends a news conference on the sidelines of an American Police Community meeting in Mexico City, Oct. 8, 2010.Genaro Garcia Luna, Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was found guilty Tuesday by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise that includedThe verdict followed a four-week trial and comes with a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years' imprisonment.
"It is unconscionable that the defendant betrayed his duty as Secretary of Public Security by greedily accepting millions of dollars in bribe money that was stained by the blood of Cartel wars and drug-related battles in the streets of the United States and Mexico, in exchange for protecting those murderers and traffickers he was solemnly sworn to investigate."
"Criminal organizations cannot function at the level of the Sinaloa drug cartel without the support of corrupt politicians and officials such as Genaro Garcia Luna who aid and abet them," said HSI New York Special Agent in Charge Ivan Arvelo.
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