Undated photos show Fernando Rivera Hernandez, left, and Miguel Colorado Gonzalez, both former employees of the organized crime unit of Mexico's Attorney General's office. AP (Photo taken from the L.A. Times)Mexico Acknowledges Drug Gang Infiltration
Of Police -- L.A. Times
Of Police -- L.A. Times
Reporting from Mexico City -- In a damning blow to its fight against drug traffickers, the Mexican government Monday acknowledged severe penetration of a top law enforcement agency by a vicious gang that may even have bought intelligence on U.S. operations from renegade employees.
At least 35 officials and agents from an elite unit within the federal attorney general's office have been fired or arrested in an investigation that began July 31 following tips from an informer.
The officials, including a senior intelligence director, are believed to have been leaking sensitive information to the very traffickers they were investigating for as long as four years, prosecutors said.
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My Comment: These cops were being paid tens of thousands of dollars per month .... it is very hard to fight corruption like that.