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U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:28 am
by JJVP
The mayor of a New Mexico town located near the U.S.-Mexican border, who had been convicted of smuggling weapons to a violent Mexican organized crime gang, was sentenced on Thursday to more than four years in prison, according to a police official.
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Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:06 am
by The Annoyed Man
Only 4 years....
Democrats do take care of their own.
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:31 am
by Oldgringo
The Annoyed Man wrote:Only 4 years....
Democrats do take care of their own.
It seems so. Had the mayor been a gringo Republican named Smith or Jones, who knows....
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:36 am
by Jumping Frog
Following the link in the article, the police chief and a city trustee were also charged.
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:38 am
by speedsix
...corruption is a write-in ballot...both parties are found there...and always have been...
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:54 am
by chasfm11
speedsix wrote:...corruption is a write-in ballot...both parties are found there...and always have been...
All politicians can have feet of clay. The less they are monitored, the greater their sins.
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:03 am
by sjfcontrol
Holder's Son?
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:34 pm
by recaffeination
They probably could have stayed out of trouble if they gave Holder his cut.
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:50 pm
by tacticool
Holder and Bloomberg are eliminating the competition.
Nothing to see here. Move along citizen.
Re: U.S. mayor smuggled weapons to Mexican drug cartel
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:42 pm
by speedsix
...ain't THAT the truth!!!