Mexico’s former public security chief set to be sentenced in US drug case
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s former public security chief is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court after being convicted of taking bribes to aid drug traffickers. Prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court have asked that Genaro García Luna be sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday while his lawyers say he deserves no more than 20 years behind bars. García Luna was convicted early last year of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect violent drug cartels that he was supposedly combating. Garcia Luna denied the allegations. He headed Mexico’s federal police before he was the country’s top security official from 2006 to 2012.
