U.S. Attorney General William Barr / Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM US Drops Charges Against Ex-Mexican Cabinet Secretary
Attorney General William Barr and his counterpart in Mexico, Alejandro Gertz Manero, said Mexican officials are now investigating former national defense secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda and, "in the interests of demonstrating our united front against all forms of criminality," the U.S. Department of Justice had agreed to drop the charges.
November 18, 2020 at 04:09 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday granted prosecutors' motion to dismiss drug trafficking and money laundering charges against a former Mexican cabinet secretary, noting that the decision to dismiss came from "the highest level of government."
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