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Anonymous ID: f98751 March 1, 2019, 9:30 a.m. No.5449217   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Obama Returns $200K Linked to Fugitive

Donations from family of Mexican casino boss Pepe Cardona

2012

Newser) – The Obama campaign has decided to return more than $200,000 worth of donations linked to Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, aka Pepe, a Mexican casino magnate who jumped bail in Iowa in 1994 to avoid drug and fraud charges, and has since come under suspicion of assassinating a business rival and making illegal campaign donations in Mexico.

 

The donations were bundled by Cardona's brothers, Carlos Rojas Cardona and Alberto Rojas Cardona, both Americans.

 

The New York Times confronted the Obama campaign about them yesterday.

 

At first, the campaign said it hadn't known about Pepe Cardona, but later that day it announced that it would return Carlos and Alberto Cardona's money, and that of "any other donors they brought to the campaign."

 

The brothers still have business ties with Pepe Cardona, and last January, Carlos Cardona sought a pardon for him from Iowa's governor through the Iowa Democratic Party. By fall, they were raising money for Obama and the DNC—even though the president cannot pardon state offenders like Pepe Cardona.

http://www.newser.com/story/139173/obama-returns-200k-linked-to-fugitive.html

 

2009 CARTELS CASINOS AND CASH

 

  1. (C) Casinos are profitable cash businesses and often used to launder illicit profits.

According to our source, the Rojas brothers have close ties to the Beltran-Leyva Cartel. The connection to the Beltran-Leyva Cartel and separate ties to PAN politicians allow the Rojas brothers to operate in an otherwise Gulf Cartel region.

Our interlocutor stated that in the 2006 elections, the brothers illegally donated US$2.5 million each to Adalberto Madero, the current mayor of PAN Monterrey, and Zeferino Salgado, the current PAN mayor of San Nicholas and the PAN?s candidate for federal deputy for the San Nicholas congressional district. In this year?s election, the Rojas brothers reportedly donated a helicopter and free campaign advertising to Salgado, who is expected to win in the upcoming elections. In addition to campaign contributions, Madero and Zeferino are said to also receive a monthly percentage of the revenue from the casinos.

  1. (C) Comment. The traffickers, the casino operators, and corrupt politicians form a self-protective triangle, which makes it difficult for honest law enforcement officers to get at organized crime.

One way for the Mexican government to strike back at the cartels would be to take a fresh look at its policy on casino licenses. End Comment.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09MONTERREY259_a.html