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Jack Camp (R), Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia was arrested in an undercover drug bust while trying to purchase cocaine from an FBI agent and resigned his position after pleading guilty to three criminal charges. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, fined an undisclosed amount, and ordered ...
This is a list of politicians murdered in the Mexican drug war. Since the start of the military-led offensive by the Mexican government in 2006, the drug trafficking organizations have slaughtered their rivals, killed policemen and now increasingly targeted politicians – especially local leaders. [ 1 ]
The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was Adam Benjamin in 1977, [4] and the first Persian-American U.S. representative was Stephanie Bice in 2021. [5] The first Coptic-American U.S. senator was George Helmy in 2024. [6]
U.S. State Department officials knew that Mexican ex-president Felipe Calderón's willingness to work with the United States was unprecedented on issues of security, crime and drugs, so the U.S. Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico and Central American countries with US$1.6 billion for the Mérida Initiative, a three ...
Danny Rampey (R) State Representative from Statham in House District 119, was newly re-elected when he was arrested and charged with obtaining drugs by misrepresentation or theft, exploiting an elder or disabled adult, burglary, and drug possession. He was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years.(2022) [42] [43]
A former Mexican defense secretary whose arrest in the United States in 2020 on drug charges strained relations between the two countries was celebrated Wednesday with an honorary military decoration.
Mexico's Judiciary Council issued a statement noting that prosecutors had failed to prove key parts of their case, including that the substance seized was a psychotropic or narcotic drug. [15] In 2012, two brothers of Ye Gon, who had been arrested shortly after the initial seizures in 2007, were also ordered released from custody by the Mexican ...
Trump named his daughter Tiffany's father-in-law, Massad Boulos, as an adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulous, a Lebanese-American businessman, played a key unofficial role in the ...