Mexico’s former top law enforcement official Genaro Garcia Luna made millions moonlighting as an enabler for the Sinaloa Cartel even as a symbol of his country’s struggling war on the narcotic trafficking trade, prosecutors said at the start of his trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Philip Pilmar said in his opening arguments to a jury Monday that under Garcia Luna’s watch, the cartel he collaborated with sent “literal tons” of cocaine to the United States, as “federal police acted as armed mercenaries to take out the enemies the cartel wanted removed.”
De Castro added that the witnesses are also looking for revenge because the cartel did not get the protection it paid for under what was a genuine crime-fighting mission in Mexico with Garcia Luna as a leader. The attorney showed photos of Garcia Luna with top U.S. officials, including former president Barack Obama, former attorney general Eric Holder and members of Congress, to depict how integral he was to a joint U.S.-Mexico narcotics trafficking effort.
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