Genaro Garcia Luna, former Mexican public security secretary, convicted of taking bribes from drug cartel

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Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former public security secretary and architect of its deadly and protracted war on drugs, was found guilty in federal court in New York on Tuesday of taking bribes from the drug cartels he had sworn to combat, the US Attorney’s Office said. “Garcia Luna, who once stood at the pinnacle of law enforcement in Mexico, will now live the rest of his days having been revealed as a traitor to his country and to the honest members of law enforcement who risked their lives to dismantle drug cartels,” Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement. García Luna moved to the United States in 2012 and settled in Florida with a personal fortune of millions of dollars, according to prosecutors

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