FBI'S FIGHT AGAINST THE DRUG CARTEL

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cracking down on drug cartels really heavy. With the new
FBI director and the act and the deputy director, things
have been changing a little bit where the FBI is
really focusing. They're looking to follow Trump's lead here and
they're focusing heavily on the drug cartels. The newest arrest
comes part of the renewed mission again by Patel and

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the FBI to break the drug cartels. Twenty two members
of a drug trafficking ring were taken it down and arrested.
Cash Pattel said the FBI, he's the new deputy director.
I mean not the deputy director. He is the director
of the FBI said the FBI believes at least one
member was working with Mexican drug cartels. Pttel credited the
FBI Dallas team along with partner with Texas law enforcement

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and the DEA. Ptel has taken to social media numerous
times to announce the arrest of cartel members, members of
the MS thirteen and others as well. He's also creating
a special Joint Task Terrorism Task Force in all field
offices to track down arrests those with ties of terrorism,
including cartels, which you remember are now designated A lot
of them are designated as terrorists. So this has changed

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the ballgame, I think for drug cartels because now you'll
have the FBI on top of it to heavily investigate them,
and this can change quite a bit of what's happening.
Other news in regards to drug cartels, Federal prosecutors were
considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael

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Gato Kintera, who was responsible to the killing of the
agent Kiki Kamerna in the USDA by the In the USDA,
that's where he was working. The top count, Catro Kintaro
face is leading a continuing criminal enterprise carries a mandatory
minimum sentence of life imprisonment. A determination has not been
made but is going through the process. The judge, in response,

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tapped a lawyer with experience in federal death penalty cases
to serve as a special counsel to Caro Contero. Elizabeth
Macedonio appeared alongside the seventy two year old in court.
She previously represented the late Vincent Assaro, the New York
mobster acquitted in the notorious Luftanza Airlines highest at JFK
that was dramatized in Martin Scercese's Goodfellas. The judge said

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he also would weigh whether it's appropriate for carl Contero
to continue receiving court appointed, taxpayer funded legal representation, as
his family hasn't hired their own lawyer, So we'll see
what happens there. Cairo Contro was among twenty nine imprisoned
cartel figures expelled from Mexico by the country's government in
a bid to keep Trump administration's planned TAR episode away

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on Mexican imports. Long known as one of the FBI's
most wanted criminals, he was the head of the Watahawa
cartel that he eventually joined the syndicate known as the
Sinaloa Cartel. Prosecutor say Quaro Control, also known as the
Narco of Narcos, was responsible for channeling tons of heroin, meth, marijuana,
and cocaine into the US over decades. So again you

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can see the Trump administration cracking down hard on the
drug cartels here, trying to make us all deals with
the new Mexican government to extradite these individuals, to keep
them here instead of Mexico, and then sentence them for life.