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October 26th, 2011 | 
Author: Corrupt U.S. Government official operating illegally with Mexican Drug Cartels for profit
By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. Sept 19, 2009 2:00 PM PDT
As an ICE official he invested cash in global drug deals endangered the lives of U.S. and Mexican law enforcement by selling secret U.S. Government information to Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC’s) and ran huge cocaine shipments to Spain via US ports. Feds say he joined cartel full time after he retired from ICE.
Richard Padilla Cramer, a 26-year veteran of the U.S. anti-drug complex was arrested by DEA agents last month and is behind bars in Florida awaiting the results of a Federal Grand Jury investigation. Cramer was arrested and jailed after U.S. Government officials accused him of directing a massive cocaine shipment to Spain via the United States, and selling vital information in law enforcement databases to a vicious Mexican Drug Cartel.
Cramer, as a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, held front-line posts both in the United States and in Mexico in regards to the War on Drugs. Cramer sometime later was investing in drugs and trafficking as a full partner in Mexico’s murderous drug cartels. According to records made available to the Laguna Journal, he led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and others as the attaché officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara Mexico and worked with the U.S. Mexican Embassy in Mexico City and U.S. Consulate offices in Guadalajara and other Mexican cities.
According to documents obtained by this writer while employed as a high ranking U.S. law enforcement agent in Mexico, Cramer was also allegedly operating illegally by serving as a sort of secret agent and a full blown business partner of some of Mexico’s richest and most blood thirsty drug lords. According to federal investigators he was operating as a key Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent who operated freely moving back and forth from Mexico to the U.S. He was allegedly “a secret ally of drug lords,” reported the L.A. Times.
A Mexican Drug Cartel boss “convinced Cramer to retire … and start working directly for (him) in drug trafficking and money laundering,” the complaint says. Cramer continued to sell secret documents that he obtained from active U.S. agents. This is a troubling aspect of the case still being investigated, the official said.
The charges underscore the corruptive might of the cartels, which have bought off Mexican politicians, police chiefs and military commandos. Drug lords have reached across the border with increasing ease, corrupting U.S. border inspectors and agents to help smuggle cocaine north. In 2006, the FBI chief in El Paso was convicted of charges related to having concealed his friendship with an alleged Mexican drug kingpin.
Cramer stands out because his rank and foreign post made his work especially sensitive, officials said. Stunned colleagues described him as a well-regarded investigator who spoke fluent Spanish and operated skillfully in the array of U.S. and Mexican agencies at the border when he ran the ICE office in the action-packed border zone of Nogales, Ariz., his hometown.
“It came as a complete shock,” said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada in a telephone interview. “I have been in law enforcement at the border 42 years and I have seen some weird things, but I have never stopped to be surprised. You have to be watchful and mindful. The cartels have touched local, state and federal agencies.”
Estrada worked with Cramer at the Nogales police in 1979, and encountered him periodically as Cramer rose through the federal ranks.
About five months ago, Cramer showed up at the sheriff’s office in the small county on the border, Estrada said. He applied for a job as a county detention officer, which pays about ,000 a year, Estrada said. In contrast, Cramer’s federal rank probably commanded a salary of between 0,000 and 0,000, plus benefits, officials say.
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Estrada, surprised, told Cramer that working as a jail guard would be “quite a drop,” the sheriff recalled.
“He said he wanted to keep being active, go back to his roots, keep busy,” Estrada said. “So we place him through … polygraph, background checks. We didn’t find anything suspicious.”
“The suspected criminal activity that Cramer has really been charged with occurred in 2007 while he was working as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Guadalajara, Mexico, according to a sealed criminal complaint issued on Aug. 28 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami,” noted the Arizona Star.
“Cramer’s duties as the ICE attache in Guadalajara included serving as a liaison with Mexican police,” the paper noted. “But the investigation revealed that he worked for ‘a very high-level drug lord,’ the federal official said. In a dark twist on the trend of former federal officials going into private consulting, the government veteran became a full-time adviser to traffickers after retiring from ICE in January 2007, Court documents reveal.”
Cramer allegedly advised traffickers on law enforcement tactics and pulled secret files to help them identify turncoats. He charged ,000 for a Drug Enforcement Administration document that was sent to a suspect in Miami by e-mail in August, authorities say.
“Cramer was responsible for advising the (drug traffickers) how U.S. law enforcement works with warrants and record checks as well as how DEA conducts investigations to include ‘flipping subjects,’” or recruiting informants, according to a criminal complaint filed by a DEA agent.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney in Miami said Wednesday that she could not comment, but said that cases begun with complaints usually go before grand juries.
Arizona-based Green valley News and Sun added: “He is accused of negotiating cocaine shipments from Panama to Spain while he was working for ICE out of the Guadalajara office, according to the criminal complaint filed.“ The complaint also says Cramer and the smuggling organization invested about 0,000 in a 660-pound shipment of cocaine. The cocaine was shipped from Panama and went through the U.S. en route to Spain, where it was seized in June 2007.”
The U.S. government information he allegedly sold to the MDC’s “allegedly helped the Mexican drug lord conduct an internal hunt for [...] informants and so called turn coats and could have led to murders of U.S. informants and whose families were to be kidnapped in retaliation, one government official said who insisted on remaining anonymous.
The paper added: “Negotiations broke down between Cramer and the head of the trafficking organization that was looking for someone to blame for the losses in Spain. A fourth informant finally approached American law enforcement and told them he spoke with Cramer on a push-to-talk phone.
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While Cramer trained at a state law enforcement academy in Tucson with considerably younger cadets, a delicate DEA investigation of a Mexican drug ring active in Miami accelerated after more than two years in the making.
Working with four informants, agents had run across evidence implicating Cramer in corruption, the complaint says. In 2007, a cartel informant showed agents documents — four from the DEA database, one from ICE, two from the state of California — supplied by an American in Mexico named “Richard,” according to the complaint.
Agents identified the American as Cramer.
On Aug. 19, the DEA arrested Cramer at his house in a gated community in Sahuarita.”
On Sept. 4, Cramer was extradited to Florida from Arizona to face drug trafficking charges, where he currently awaits trial.
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Government always – Do we really want our politicians are agile enough to solve the problem of drug trafficking ?
One of the main problems that this country is losing the war against drugs. He started forty years ago, all levels of government of the United States have probably spent over a trillion dollars and has made small progress in the battle with narco state law is evolving right under our southern border, a state of lawlessness perverted by the excessive profits of the drug. Consider some recent news articles that illustrate these points of anarchy and violence of drug cartels
– A recent article in The Huffington Post reported on the murder of a Mexican mother who had been protesting against the governor’s office in Mexico to demand justice for her daughter killed recently. Three judges were suspended for the release of the prime suspect in the murder of his daughter, who apparently turned around and killed the mother of protest, a murder that was recorded on a video security. The killings took place in Ciudad Juarez, where more than 3,000 people were killed in fighting drug gangs in 2010. That is more than 2600 people who died in 2009. Of the 2600 murders in 2009, there were 93 cases of murder was opened and only 19 convictions. This calculates to open a case and a conviction rate of 3.6% down from 0.73%
-. Even if the murderer of the mother had locked himself in a Mexican jail, there is no guarantee that they have stayed. Another recent article in The Huffington Post reported that more than 150 prisoners escaped from a prison in northern Mexico, a break was probably facilitated by the prison staff. The local government has issued a statement saying: “. The State is not able to keep [the violent prisoners] to escape” does not look like a very safe prison system if those who openly acknowledge that running, they can not stop the leaks “. br />
The article indicates that the area where the prison was also affected by the violence between drug gangs and the Gulf Zeta. It is not known if the threats of the guards by the bands or financial incentives to help groups guards fled, were factors, but obviously they were worthy of investigation. Therefore, it is likely that the influence of drugs were involved in one way or another
-. The Associated Press reported Dec. 15, 2010 as a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in a shooting near Nogales, Arizona, the busiest corridor for smuggling and drug trafficking from Mexico to U.S. officials estimate that half of the marijuana seizures along the southern border of the United States in this area, which is also the busiest point of entry for illegal immigrants. The scary thing is that this report will fight to the death and the weapon was not just over the border, but 13 miles of the border, when a group of gunmen exchanged fire officers. Two months ago, Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, had boasted that the border is more secure than ever. The family of the murdered agent might disagree with his /> – The Associated Press reported November 25, 2010, the U.S. police found a cross-border tunnel between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego was a way for drug smuggling Mexican drug cartels in the country. The tunnel was the second tunnel learned in the month, which raises the question how many other, tunnels drug could be learned there.
Police found 40 tons of marijuana in the tunnel system, which was equipped with lighting, ventilation and a rail system to go drugs across the border and to extend the mandate of seven football fields. On the Mexican side of the border at the tunnel entrance was reduced by more than 80 feet to a wood floor and covered the American side the entrance was 50 feet deep
-. Other press reports about the drug cartels and Mexico in 2010 included a raid in the southern United States, where he found a fully submersible submarine, to be used for drug trafficking, under construction in the jungle, the murder of a U.S. citizen they went on skiing vacation on a lake between Mexico and the U.S. border, and the recommendation of the Mexican government that Mexican citizens to return to Mexico for vacation travel in convoys and daylight for their own security against bandits and drug cartels.
Whatever the politicians and the government is not working, but costing us billions and billions of dollars a year. The demand for illicit drugs has not decreased significantly, while the obscene profits made by filling out this request resulted in an element of criminal violence and suppliers. With the death of a border services officer 13 miles of the border, we witness the first migration of Mexican lawlessness and increasing violence in our country.
those who bring violence are not common street criminals. If you are able to dig smuggling tunnels and sophisticated submarines fully operational, we are faced with a force of well-funded, well organized and focused criminal force can more or less corrupt, threaten or kill a Mexican official interrupt their operations.
Compare your skills with the American political class, a group of politicians that the list to pass a law that regulates the volume of television commercials on major achievements in 2009. If we allow our politicians and their approach to problem solving to counter this threat, who do you reckon wins?
returns to New York Times writer David Brooks called “the government is.” It is highly unlikely, after more than four decades, the current group of politicians in this country are smart enough and agile enough to repel successful migration of violence likely to drugs in this country. The drug cartels are focused, well organized and flexible, the descriptions of three that are never applied to our political class.
That we are facing the immobility? A apporach is impanel a special commission of intelligent Americans, politicians and doctors lobbyists, zero to one aspect of the drug market, legal and illegal. It would build on the expertise of economists, sociologists, medical experts, experts in drug abuse, experts in the fight against drugs, legal experts, etc., and also on the experiences of other nations that have been less successful in changing their approach to addiction every social issue.
Work Group would result in a small set of alternatives to the question set, alternatives to be voted by the American public, bypassing Congress and the political class is still all. The most well loved alternative, as determined by voters who have examined the advantages and disadvantages of each option, as determined by the jury, would be held throughout the country. This time would be to restore the power democracy for the people, while ultimately improving the lives of the country’s drug cartels and violent intrusive.
The state government in California is currently spending much of their budget on prison systems in the school systems of the student. By changing our approach to the war against drugs, maybe, just maybe, we can stop this kind of madness of our politicians. But, only the end if we find a way to avoid stagnation. After forty years, it is likely unhighly follow the advice of an ancient song and start to “Go Mobile”.
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Third Annual Nissan Student Government Leadership Program All Together
July 19 August to 2 this year, sixty students heads of government of the country’s historically black colleges and universities will gather in Jackson, Mississippi for the third edition of the Nissan Student Government Leadership Program (NSGLP). The program will be held on the campus of Tougaloo College, with nationally recognized speakers coming to participate and share their wisdom on leadership.
The program exposes Nissan SGA Presidents to a program designed for young executives entering the U.S. firms and continues to highlight Nissan’s commitment to HBCUs and future world leaders. Its huge success has led the company to once again offer this leadership experience that helps participants to position themselves as leaders on their campuses and in their personal and professional communities.
“The Nissan Student Government Leadership Program is an brilliant opportunity to practice college leaders to prepare for business leadership. We met some of the brightest minds in the country to design a program that is significant and has significant impact participating students, “Stephanie Valdez Streaty, Nissan North America Mr. Manager, Communications philanthropy and diversity and team leader for NSGLP said.
Speakers who have confirmed their participation in the 2007 program are: Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, nationally recognized educator, physician and researcher in women’s reproductive health at Meharry Medical College School of Medicine, Reverend Dr. Nelson rivers – the company responsible for operations of the NAACP, Gregory Anderson, author of the No. 1 Box Office Hit “Stomp the Yard” and former member NSGLP company and American Idol winner Ruben Studdard.
Invitations for the program was extended to all HBCUs across the country. But the first 60 schools to return completed forms will be accepted into each session NSGLP, all expenses paid.
For more information on the Nissan Student Government Leadership Program visit their website at http: / / www.nissansglp.com/ or contact Jocelyn R. 336-558-8063 or 336-884-0744 Coleman or Phanalphie Rhue.
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Federal Government is urged in support of medical marijuana by the American Medical Association
American Medical Association, which is the largest organization of doctors in the U.S., has reconsidered its position on medical marijuana and currently supports the exploration and medical research marijuana for medicinal use. On Tuesday, the group has persuaded the federal government to reassess its classification of marijuana, controlled substances in Annex I, which unfairly slander the plant along with some of the most perilous narcotics such as LSD and heroin.
AMA official of the board, Dr. Edward Langston specifies that only a smaller number of controlled trials, casual has ever been held in marijuana is ingested, despite the medical research in the medical marijuana and other experts that spans over thirty years. For now, the group encourages new research on the effectiveness of medical marijuana despite its support for the classification of marijuana in Schedule I, since 1997, as more doctors and more medical marijuana appear over time .
year, the Obama administration has also ordered federal narcotics agents to stop the persecution of people who use and distribute medical marijuana (including medical marijuana) in the states that have legalized indicating a change in the course of the past administrations opposition “strict use of medical marijuana, even for people who have medical marijuana cards in the states that have legalized the plant for medical purposes . Currently, fourteen states legally allow the use of medical marijuana and nearly a dozen other states have begun to reckon about it. The American Medical Association is interested in the study, which takes into account the alternative use of marijuana medical, therapeutic addition to smoking.’s lawyers medical marijuana talk about other useful ways to use medical marijuana, which carries the cannabis extract THC oil-rich, which is claimed to be able to heal the sick cancer. Today, no one is prosecuted for cannabis use if a medical marijuana legal card is present.
The federal government’s response to the position of WADA has been honestly silent in spite of the loose federal prosecution of medical marijuana use and marijuana medical clinic workers. DEA – Drug Enforcement Administration – repeated the status of marijuana as a substance Schedule I and the FDA – Food and Drug Administration – refused to comment on the situation. The American Medical Association was one of the groups sole purpose of the first federal restriction on cannabis, which was established in 1937. There is still the thought of casual decline that medical marijuana is a myth, despite its past support of the Schedule I classification of narcotics. The organization is opposed, including a proposed amendment, which have established their management policies resistance ingested marijuana as a safe way to use for the treatment of medical marijuana. In fact, nearly any clinic offers edible medicinal marijuana medical marijuana for patients with medical marijuana cards .
marijuana support groups are pleased about the new position of the AMA and the expansion change in attitude toward medical marijuana and everything related to it – doctors of medical marijuana,
medical marijuana clinics , etc. While the federal government is resisting against the legalization of medical marijuana, in reference to consideration by the FDA in objection to the use as drug safety, the belief persists well loved shift towards further study and the medical use of marijuana. Last year, the second largest physician group, the American College of Physicians has expressed similar support for enhanced research and reassessment of medical marijuana . In addition, the California Medical Association passed its own opinion concerning the criminalization of marijuana as a “failed policy of public health.”
The mood is shifting to free research benefits of marijuana
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Indian Medical Travel Association (Imta) Represents To Modify Medical Visa Norms To Indian Government To Further Boost Growth Of Medical Tourism An
Majority of foreigners coming to India for medical treatments have been applying for a tourist visa and not opting for M visa, because Medical Visa norms make it mandatory for them to register with FRRO office within 14 days of the arrival in India. This is an avoidable inconvenience imposed by M Visa, particularly in view of the fact that the patients may not be able to leave the hospital once their treatment starts to go and register at the FRRO.
The patients who come on M Visa have to seek the Indian hospital’s help to go FRRO office and comply with the procedures and this puts avoidable strain on the hospital’s resources. Therefore the hospitals have been often advising the potential patients not to apply for M visa and opt for Tourist Visa only. But this has defeated the very purpose and the excellent intentions with which the Government of India introduced the Medical Visa scheme.
The volume of foreign patient arrivals at Indian hospitals is growing at a healthy pace of over 40 percent every year and medical tourism is indeed the next billion dollar opportunity after IT outsourcing for India to benefit from its quick expanding private healthcare infrastructure. Indian doctors and professionals are world renowned for their skills and the country has abundance of all the inputs like talented young manpower, local high quality manufacturing base for pharmaceuticals, technology hardware and software that makes the Indian costs for high end surgical procedures so attractive.
“IMTA has apprised the concerned ministries of the Indian Government of the issues with Medical Visa and we have requested them to modify the norms to make it an enabler for the growth of Medical Value Travel to India. An early action to address the issues with Medical Visa would surely enhance the volume of international patients coming to India, it will also help to track the numbers of medical tourists arrival to India more accurately. ” Says Pradeep Thukral, Executive Director, Indian Medical Travel Association (IMTA)
About Indian Medical Travel Association.
A non profit body aimed at preparing India for facing the challenges of global competition in Medical Tourism space and actualise the tremendous opportunity for India to become a leading global healthcare destination. IMTA’s membership has a diverse base of India’s leading JCI, NABH accredited hospitals, Indian System of Medicine and Wellness service providers, travel industry, Insurance, Help and Medical Tourism facilitation companies.
For more details please contact :-
Ms. Anoushka Singh, Manager PR, Indian Medical Travel Association
Phone – 91 9899993637
Email – pr@indianmta.com
Website – http://indianmedicaltravelassociation.com/
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The students that like to pursue a technical career in electronics, mechanics or anything like it, can take up a program with a technical school. This may be exactly what they need to have a professional career. There are many benefits in attending such a technical school. These advantages are:Save money on tuition. The technical schools are less expensive than the other higher education institution. They offer fantastic education for less money. There is also no need to get a student loan because it is not that expensive. But there are many technical schools that also offer financial aids. The proximity. There are many communities with local colleges. These colleges train many students and help them have a career. This means that a student can live home and save money on board and room. Saving on travelling costs is something that many students appreciate and one of the reasons technical schools are appealing. The demands of the career. Once a student graduates a technical school he has many types of careers to choose from. Plus, these careers are at high demand. They can work in drafting, computer technology, health care, mechanics, welding and much more. The job market requires students that have pursued a technical career. They can easily get employment immediately after graduation. The educational program is small. Normally a technical school lasts no more than one year and no less than a half a year. After this small period of time they receive a certificate and a degree. The students are able to complete the programs very quick and then get the proper certification. This means that in a small period of time they will be able to work. If you want to follow a technical school program, then you need to choose what kind of program suits you better. You need to see if you are medically inclined. If you delight in computers and have technical skills, then you should have no problems. But if you still have problems deciding on a career plot, then you may want to go visit the local library. You are also able to visit a career research the offer of some technical schools. Look for a technical school in the area you live in. From the many options you will want to choose the best for you. After deciding on the program you may want to see the school program and all the classes you will follow.
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