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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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“Motorola Clutch was designed to give serious texters and talkers multiple ways to get the word out,” said Rick Gadd, vice president for Motorola Mobile Devices. “With a full QWERTY keyboard featuring shortcut keys, IM-style texting and push-to-talk technology which works like a verbal IM, Sprint customers are able to keep in constant contact, no matter how they prefer to communicate.”
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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By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter unionized. July 27.2010 at 21:00 PDT
The Mexican cartels have crossed the international border into the United States to kill people, including the United States and its scope extends to the north, east and west through our nation. MDC ordered the murders of drug dealers, gang members in America, the U.S. consulate employees, Detention Director Sheriff El Paso County, the agent of the DEA informant, and the ICE U.S. military personnel. MDC is also responsible for the removal of many Americans on American soil and taken to Mexico for Americans to be tortured, mutilated and killed with small or no reprisals the U.S. government.
street gangs in major cities are now directly linked to Mexican drug cartels (MDC). Drug smuggling and human trafficking in the United States through the corridors of known and unknown smuggled across the southern United States. Application of the law states that they work and do the dirty work for the cartels in exchange for drugs. This dirty work that murder, drug distribution, and collection of debts to the MDC by other gangs and drug dealers nationwide.
federal authorities point to Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for border violence on both sides of the Mexican border U. S. and beyond, having cemented ties to U.S. street gangs and prison in the United States. Many of these gangs operate in cities like El Paso, Tucson, San Diego and Los Angeles, some, such as Barrio Azteca in El Paso, operating on both sides. Azteca and other U.S. retail drug groups who often come facade of Mexican drug cartels and Mexican drug cartel gangs. Mexican gangs run their own distribution networks in the United States, which produce most of the methamphetamine used north of the border. They even ignored the Colombians several times both to buy cocaine directly from producers in Bolivia, Peru and even heroin from Afghanistan. These bands allow the dissemination and application of long-range cartels.
LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek wrote about the FBI’s 10 Most Fugitive Jose Saenz, a native of Los Angeles, who raped and executed his former girlfriend, the mother of his two years of age, and, horribly, she left her ravaged body lying in the bedroom of her grandmother. It was just one of his many crimes. See the surveillance video that accompanies the sight of the execution of his fellow Oscar Torres horrible band MDC member of Los Angeles and hired assassin Saenz a house in a suburb of Los Angeles.
Barrio Azteca in accordance with the law provided for the implementation of Juarez cartel in the street to carry out kidnappings and beatings of both sides of the border. In contrast, Barrio Azteca get wholesale prices or drug cartel’s face and manage the sales of drugs at street level.
These same gangs often work as cartel surrogates or performance on the American side of the border. Intelligence suggests Los Zetas are known as “Los Zetas have hired members of various gangs at different times, including El Paso gang Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate, MS-13, Pistoleros Latinos Harrmanos and many other criminals to continue their efforts. perilous Mexican cartel gangs
A Mexican army officer, who insisted on remaining unnamed, said that Barrio Azteca is now on the operation and in connection with the Zetas, along the Mexican border Arizona.
Mexican officials said American intelligence noted the involvement in the killings by the Aztecs, the Consulate of the employees Lesley A. Enriquez and her husband, Arthur H. Redelfs, who have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, when gunmen opened fire on his sport utility vehicle after leaving a birthday party.
husband Jorge Alberto Salcido, an employee of the consulate of Mexico, was also killed by armed men to leave the same event in a separate vehicle.
The governor of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, where Ciudad Juarez, said recently that the Mexican authorities are studying the possibility that it may have been attacked Redelfs for his work as a jail detention officer of the County of El Paso.
“Until we have other information, it is a line of research we want to go,” said Governor Jose Reyes Baeza. “As part of the investigation, other tests will until we can share with the U.S. government … to clarify the reason for this unfortunate crime.”
General Germain Redondo Azuara said he believes many of the drugs grown in Afghanistan finds its way through the smuggling routes into markets in Europe and the United States where they are sold by members gangs. At the same time millions of dollars and Eros are used to finance terrorism and terror, not only in Afghanistan but around the world. Most of these trafficking organizations that feed the terrorists terror network also help fund the Taliban attacks in Afghanistan. Part of this illicit cash provides operating capital for international terrorist Osama bin Laden and others.
Colombian drug cartels and the Mexicans are now believed to work with the international terrorist threat is most prevalent in the organization in the United States as an agent of the DEA money and murder Mexico. Tijuana cartel [s]
These new organizations combined international drug trafficking are complex organizations with highly defined command and control structures that produce, transport and / or distribute large quantities of illicit drugs in Afghanistan. global terrorism and drug trafficking cartels
A high ranking ICE says Mexican drug cartels (MDC) are ideal for terrorists because they are active in all regions of the country and dominate the illicit trafficking drug at all levels, both in Mexico and the United States. Because this new alliance MDC Mexico are expanding their operations dramatically in order to gain market share more drugs. Colombian MDC are cocaine and heroin traffickers dominant, especially in the northeast, but, are increasingly more for developed countries from Mexico to relinquish control to protect themselves from detection of the order of the Mexican cartels and the transport and distribution of cocaine and heroin from South America in the S. U. They also distribute cocaine and other drugs. Many other Mexican drug cartels and their gangs and criminal groups are active in the United States, the world’s largest users of cocaine and heroin.
Other reasons for terrorism have opted for the Mexican cartels that control the wholesale distribution and transportation of illegal drugs on all areas of the western hemisphere, exerting unrivaled control over transportation and distribution Wholesale cocaine, Mexican heroin, Mexican marijuana, methamphetamine and ice. And now believes that the use of the same bands smuggle terrorists in the United States through the corridors of smuggling. His work laid the land transportation routes and distribution networks that can provide well established drug markets in LDCs primary and secondary schools in these areas. are still expanding their influence throughout the world.
police say they are working or allies of the Aztecs with the online application group, which has also worked for the Juarez cartel led by the Carrillo Fuentes clan.
FBI agent Samantha Mikeska, who investigated the Barrio Azteca for more than eight years from the Office El Paso office said that four of the five leaders of the gang are in prison. The only exception is Ravelo.
Ravelo is suspected of direct operations in Ciudad Juárez and Aztec maintain contact with senior members of the Juarez cartel, Mikeska said.
According to a DEA report of the Barrio Azteca was organized in El Paso, Texas, the county jail in 1987, he went to the street and the Department of Justice Criminal Justice Barrio Azteca prison -. prison gang, which has offices in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico has historically been linked to -..
Juarez cartel Barrio Azteca members is estimated at 3500 in and outside the prison system
members have been reported in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, California , Oklahoma, Idaho, Washington, Kansas, Illinois, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York Utah. Participate in the implementation of the rules of the Juarez cartel in El Paso, Texas and southern New Mexico
. El Paso Barrio Azteca accept shipments of narcotics in the United States, streams and transports (usually in secret compartments) for the destination cities in the S. U. In some cases, have also been implicated in the smuggling of foreign exchange in Mexico, where it is then washed. Barrio Azteca has also been involved in support groups in the smuggling of foreign operating in the United States as Barrio Azteca alliance to a poster for simple access to drugs, finance, and. protection of local education authorities Mexicans “
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Michael Webster
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