WASHINGTON (proceso.com.mx).– In the preamble to the beginning of the drug trafficking trial against Genaro García Luna, the US Department of Justice has delivered to the Federal Court in New York additional evidence against Felipe’s friend , Calderón.
Justice Department prosecutors also presented to the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Brooklyn, New York, and the defense of Garcia Luna, the identities of 19 other potential incriminating witnesses and supporting documents for three of them.
Before Judge Brian Cogan, in charge of the case and trial of García Luna, friend, adviser, confidante, right-hand man and public security secretary of former President Calderón, the prosecutors presented documents from Mexico and statements from a confidential source.
The evidence, which adds to the more than one million offending pages, hundreds of recordings, videos, financial documents, computer and smartphone memories, will be used in the trial which will begin on January 9, 2023.
In the letter informing Cogan and the public defender, César de Castro, who defends García Luna, the Justice Department prosecutors outline the new evidence they have delivered to the Brooklyn Court, where the details of the trial are set out.
Without providing further details, prosecutors list the delivery of a “sealed document, notes from undefined or classified reports, documents from Mexico with their respective translations, and notes taken on the statements of a confidential source”.
At the same time, the United States government, in another letter, informs the judge that, in accordance with the agreement of the parties, the list of 19 other possible incriminating witnesses and the supporting documents of three of them have been delivered to the defense.
By order of the judge and to ensure the physical safety of witnesses, their identity cannot be disclosed to the public until they appear at trial to testify; the same rule applies to the witnesses that De Castro intends to present to defend his client.
The US government charges García Luna with four federal drug trafficking felonies and collusion with the Sinaloa Cartel, as well as lying to a federal immigration agent.
If found guilty by a qualified jury, Calderón’s confidant would be sentenced to life in prison as the maximum sentence or 20 years in prison as the minimum sentence.
García Luna also has the option of pleading guilty before the trial begins or in full trial, which is the prosecutors’ offer, with which he would be sentenced to approximately 7 years in prison and after serving as a collaborating witness and being been released, he should be deported to Mexico.
