A former Mexican border state governor blamed for letting cartels flourish will spend nine years in a U.S. prison for laundering millions in bribes. He is one of two former Tamaulipas governors indicted in Texas.
This week, Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba went before U.S. District Judge Rolando Olvera at a federal courthouse in Houston. Olvera sentenced Yarrington to 108 months in prison followed by deportation proceedings. During the hearing, it was revealed that he laundered between $3.5 million to $9.5 million.
Yarrington served as the governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005. During that time, the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas were able to operate with complete impunity — setting the stage for years of terror-filled violence continuing to this day. After his term ended, court documents revealed that Yarrington worked with the Beltran Leyva Cartel and Los Zetas to help them get access to the Port of Veracruz.
Breitbart Texas uncovered that Yarrington and his successor, Eugenio Hernandez, had government-paid police working as their bodyguards despite being fugitives.
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