An ex-Carnegie Mellon University trustee was accused Monday by a Texas federal prosecutor of conspiring with a romantic interest to launder half a billion dollars for a Mexican drug cartel.
Marco Antonio Delgado is being tried in El Paso on money laundering
charges.
Prosecutor Debra Kanof said in her opening statement that Delgado
discussed a deal with Lilian De La Concha, an ex-wife of former Mexican
President Vicente Fox, at a meeting in Mexico City.
"They
talked about $600 million and agreed he would get 5 percent of whatever he
could launder," Kanof said.
Delgado's
attorney, Ray Velarde, says the meetings with De La Concha were about his
expertise in energy and international law, not drug money.
"At no
time the subject of drug money was mentioned," Velarde said.
Delgado is a
lawyer and former Carnegie Mellon trustee who gave a $250,000 endowment for a
scholarship named after him to assist Hispanic students.
Prosecutors
say Delgado conspired to launder drug profits from July 2007 through December
2008. They say he's since participated in financial transactions they believe
are connected to organized crime.
The
investigation into Delgado started in September 2007 after authorities seized
$1 million in Atlanta. Victor Pimentel, the man carrying the money, told
investigators that he, Delgado and other men had met in Mexico and agreed to
transport money for the Milenio Cartel, a drug-trafficking organization based
in the Mexican state of Colima and associated with the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexican
government information states the cartel was mostly disbanded in 2010.
Pimentel, now
a key witness for the prosecution, testified Monday and produced several email
conversations spanning over several months between him and Delgado. Some of
those conversations contained emails that he claims were from De La Concha to
Delgado and that were later forwarded to him by Delgado.
Pimentel
walked Kanof through the coded language that he, Delgado and De La Concha
prosecutors say they used to talk about the money laundering operation they
were allegedly negotiating with the drug cartel.
In one email
written in Spanish, De La Concha tells Delgado "Dear, in relation to the
Girls Scout cookies that you are going to try to place, God willing you can
help them place five more boxes per school each week. Right now, instead of 300
they have in the warehouse 500 boxes and with the donations that are coming in
the amount is going to increase."
Pimentel told
Kanof that each box of cookies meant $1 million, "schools" were bank
accounts or other geographic locations and the "donations" referred
to drug proceeds.
In other
emails, they talked about constructors, iron works and other words to refer to
the deal.
"We are
not idiots, we never dealt with cookies or iron works. We only had one business
with these people," Pimentel told the prosecutor.
In another email,
Pimentel explained, Delgado forwarded a letter that De La Concha would send to
Francisco Ramirez Acuna, then interior secretary, asking him to hire Delgado as
a lobbyist or representative in Washington in order to better the official's
image in the U.S. capital. Pimentel also said that she requested that
Pimentel's cousin be named head of the border crossing in Palomas, just across
the border from Columbus, New Mexico.
He added that
the plan was to have an inside man so they could "cross anything from the
U.S. to Mexico."
U.S. District
Judge David Briones adjourned the hearing and said Pimentel's testimony and the
defense's turn to question him would continue Tuesday.
According to
U.S. authorities, Delgado admitted to federal Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents that he had been contacted by people in Mexico about slowing
down extradition processes of alleged cartel members and about moving up to
$600 million from the U.S. to Mexico. He told the agents the million dollars
seized was "a trial run" to see if it was possible, according to the
U.S. government.
If the deal
was successful, Pimentel explained, both he, Delgado and De La Concha would
receive a percentage of the money laundered.
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