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Black Mafia Family co-founder Big Meech is seen inside Miami halfway house after release from federal prison
2 months ago

Black Mafia Family co-founder Big Meech is seen inside Miami halfway house after release from federal prison

Daily Mail  

Big Meech, the infamous co-founder of the Black Mafia Family crime syndicate, has been spotted inside a Miami halfway house following his release from federal prison. Demetrius 'Big Meech' Flenory was arrested in October 2005, when the Drug Enforcement Agency took down his and his brother's nationwide drug trafficking operation The now 56-year-old was pictured Saturday wearing an all-black outfit …

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Watchdog blasts DEA for not reporting waterboarding, torture by Latin American partners
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Watchdog blasts DEA for not reporting waterboarding, torture by Latin American partners

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A federal government watchdog is blasting the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for failing to timely report human rights violations committed by Latin American law enforcement partners who admitted to waterboarding, suffocating and torturing crime suspects. The management advisory memorandum published Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General centers on the DEA’s obligations under what’s known …

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The many sides of Gena Rowlands, plus the week’s best movies in L.A.
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The many sides of Gena Rowlands, plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

LA Times  

Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. On Saturday at the Egyptian, there will be a screening of John Cassavetes’ 1980 “Gloria,” which subverts many tropes of the gangster film as Rowlands plays a woman forced to protect a young boy. But it happened in 1964.” Points of interest ‘Heathers’ Shannen …

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Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 3 years for bribing former colleague to leak intelligence
7 months, 1 week ago

Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 3 years for bribing former colleague to leak intelligence

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A former U.S. Drug Enforcement …

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Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 3 years for bribing former colleague to leak intelligence
7 months, 1 week ago

Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 3 years for bribing former colleague to leak intelligence

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for bribing a longtime colleague to leak DEA intelligence to Miami defense lawyers seeking to profit off the timing of indictments and other sensitive information about drug investigations. “He decided to cash in on his connections,” U.S. District Court Judge Paul Oetken …

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Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 4 years for leaking intelligence in Miami bribery conspiracy
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 4 years for leaking intelligence in Miami bribery conspiracy

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent to four years in prison for leaking DEA intelligence to defense lawyers in a $100,000 bribery scheme that prosecutors said jeopardized drug cases and the lives of confidential informants. He worked in supervisory roles in Miami and later at DEA headquarters outside Washington, D.C. “Costanzo …

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Jury convicts former DEA agent of obstruction but fails to reach verdict on Buffalo bribery charges
8 months, 1 week ago

Jury convicts former DEA agent of obstruction but fails to reach verdict on Buffalo bribery charges

Associated Press  

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi said prosecutors will seek to retry Bongiovanni as soon as possible on the corruption charges that hung the jury, including allegations the agent shielded a sex-trafficking strip club outside Buffalo, …

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GOP pressures Biden to release evidence against Maduro ally pardoned as part of prisoner swap
10 months, 4 weeks ago

GOP pressures Biden to release evidence against Maduro ally pardoned as part of prisoner swap

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A group of Senate Republicans on Thursday urged the Justice Department to release its investigative file on a key fixer for Venezuela’s socialist government pardoned by President Joe Biden ahead of trial on money laundering charges. Alex Saab, 52, was released from federal prison in Miami last month as part of a prisoner swap and was immediately welcomed …

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Miami attorneys bankrolled DEA bribery scheme, federal prosecutors say
11 months ago

Miami attorneys bankrolled DEA bribery scheme, federal prosecutors say

Associated Press  

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors are expanding their investigation into a bribery scheme involving two former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors, turning their attention to two Miami defense attorneys suspected of profiting from repeated leaks of confidential DEA information. But federal prosecutors took the unusual step this week of asking a judge to invoke the “crime fraud exception” to this privilege, …

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Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president
1 year ago

Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. Joseph Vincent, a dual Haitian-American citizen who lived in the U.S. and attended meetings in South Florida and Haiti ahead of the assassination, is the fourth …

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DEA agent leaked secret information about Maduro ally targeted by US, prosecutor says
1 year, 1 month ago

DEA agent leaked secret information about Maduro ally targeted by US, prosecutor says

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A federal narcotics agent leaked sensitive case information about one of Washington’s top criminal targets in Venezuela as part of a scheme to sell government secrets to defense lawyers seeking to attract deep-pocketed clients, a jury was told this week. “You should not be giving information to assist anybody outside the prosecution team to get clients.” Nadler’s …

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DEA Mexico chief quietly ousted over ties to drug lawyers
1 year, 10 months ago

DEA Mexico chief quietly ousted over ties to drug lawyers

Associated Press  

MIAMI — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration quietly ousted its former top official in Mexico last year over improper contact with lawyers for narcotraffickers, an embarrassing end to a brief tenure marked by deteriorating cooperation between the countries and a record flow of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl across the border. Nicholas Palmeri’s socializing and vacationing with Miami drug lawyers, detailed …

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Veteran Miami DEA agents charged in bribery conspiracy
2 years, 7 months ago

Veteran Miami DEA agents charged in bribery conspiracy

Associated Press  

A current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a former supervisor in the agency were charged Friday with leaking confidential law enforcement information to defense lawyers in Miami in exchange for $70,000 in cash. A five-count indictment unsealed in New York charges the agent, John Costanzo Jr., with accepting bribes to provide sensitive information about pending investigations to Manny Recio, …

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British Virgin Islands premier arrested on US drug charges
2 years, 7 months ago

British Virgin Islands premier arrested on US drug charges

Associated Press  

MIAMI — The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the Caribbean territory’s ports were arrested Thursday on drug smuggling charges in South Florida, federal authorities said. Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were taken into custody by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine …

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Businessman close to Maduro was DEA informant, records show
2 years, 10 months ago

Businessman close to Maduro was DEA informant, records show

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A businessman described as the main conduit for corruption in Venezuela was secretly signed up by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a source in 2018, revealing information about bribes he paid to top officials in President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government. The stunning revelation was made public following a heated closed door hearing Wednesday in Miami federal court …

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Ex-top drug cop in Bolivia charged with cocaine trafficking
2 years, 10 months ago

Ex-top drug cop in Bolivia charged with cocaine trafficking

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A former Bolivian antinarcotics chief has been charged in the U.S. with conspiring to provide top-level protection for cocaine shipments to the United States. “Instead of rooting out drug trafficking in that country, Dávila-Perez worked in partnership with Bolivian drug labs and sought to send more than a thousand kilograms of cocaine to the United States,” U.S. Attorney …

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Miami prof gets jail for laundering ‘dirty’ Venezuela money
3 years, 1 month ago

Miami prof gets jail for laundering ‘dirty’ Venezuela money

Associated Press  

MIAMI — For years, Bruce Bagley was the go-to academic expert on drug trafficking in Latin America, sharing his knowledge with Congress, journalists, prominent attorneys and even the Central Intelligence Agency. “I have spent my life as an academic working to understand and improve conditions in many countries in Latin America, and to be here today is the greatest departure …

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Colombian cop who ran squad vetted by DEA pleads guilty
3 years, 2 months ago

Colombian cop who ran squad vetted by DEA pleads guilty

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A Colombian police captain who oversaw a unit that worked closely with U.S. anti-narcotics agents has pleaded guilty to charges that he sought to betray the Drug Enforcement Administration to the same traffickers they were jointly fighting. Mosquera’s 2018 arrest and subsequent extradition to the U.S. was another overseas embarrassment for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which has …

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