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"A Losing Hand"  -  Mike Scarcella - July 27, 2009  --  In the eyes of the Justice Department, Zhenli Ye Gon is a major player. The one-time fugitive allegedly amassed a fortune importing and selling ingredients to methamphetamine producers in Mexico. A March 2007 raid on his mansion in Mexico City turned up $207 million in bundled cash — the single largest seizure of alleged drug money in the world. When federal drug agents arrested him in an Asian restaurant in suburban Maryland in July 2007, they were certain they had nabbed a kingpin.

"With the arrest of Zhenli Ye Gon, we've apprehended not only the man behind the money, but the man behind the meth," Karen Tandy, then administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, declared in a statement. The case was heralded as a collaborative feat by the governments of Mexico and the United States.

This week, Justice Department lawyers will head to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where a judge is expected to dismiss the government's case against Ye Gon.


WASHINGTON, D.C. -



2nd Trial Names 3 MS-13 Leaders - Racketeering Case Includes Murders


By Ruben Castaneda, Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Three leaders of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha collectively participated in or planned four Washington area murders during a span of about two years, a federal prosecutor said yesterday as the second racketeering trial involving members of the gang got underway in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.


SPAIN -



Paramilitares Colombianos Presos En EE.UU. Piden Al Juez Que Revise Sus Condiciones Carcelarias

Actualizado 06-08-2008 00:26 CET

Los abogados de cinco ex jefes paramilitares colombianos acusados en EE.UU. de delitos de narcotráfico pidieron hoy al juez Reggie Walton que revise la situación carcelaria de sus clientes, dado que otros imputados disfrutan de mejores condiciones.


COLOMBIA -



Interview provided to W Radio in Bogota, Colombia regarding political corruption.

-- Listen to Interview Here --



 MAIMI, FL -

Colombian guerrilla awaits a decision in drug-trafficking trial
Posted on Fri, Feb. 09, 2007
By Pablo Bachelet - McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Not too long ago, Nayibe Rojas was living in the jungles of southern Colombia, wearing combat fatigues and directing the finances of a powerful unit of the leftist FARC guerrillas.  Now, the woman who used the nom de guerre of Sonia is in a federal court in Washington, battling to persuade a jury that she's just a peasant with a burning desire to bring justice to her country and not a cocaine trafficker.