Damn Mexico is cracking down

Mexico issues arrest warrant for ex-Pemex CEO in anti-graft push: media

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico issued an arrest warrant for a former chief of Mexican oil company Pemex, government-owned media said on Tuesday, in the first blow against ex-President Enrique Pena Nieto’s inner circle since a new government took office promising to clean up politics.

Citing sources at the attorney general’s office, Mexico news agency Notimex said a judge had ordered the arrest of Emilio Lozoya, who headed Pemex from 2012 to 2016.

A Mexican security source said the reports were accurate. The attorney general’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

Lozoya’s lawyer Javier Coello said he had not received any official notification of an arrest warrant.

Coello said that after seeing various media reports on the subject he filed an injunction on behalf of Lozoya to get to the bottom of the matter, and requested to be officially notified of whether the warrant exists.

“Once the defense verifies if there is actually an arrest warrant, and it knows the contents of the warrant, it will be able to take a legal position to execute an adequate defense,” Coello said in a statement.

Coello said in a radio interview that Lozoya was in Mexico, denying some reports that he had left the country.

In a move related to the case, Spanish police detained steel magnate Alonso Ancira on Tuesday, his company Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) said in a statement. The company sold a fertilizer plant to Pemex while Lozoya was at the helm.

The investigation of Lozoya, who ran Pena Nieto’s 2012 election campaign, is the first high-profile corruption investigation launched by the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador against the government he replaced on Dec. 1. Lopez Obrador won election by a landslide promising to root out public sector corruption.

On Monday, the Finance Ministry said it had blocked accounts belonging to Lozoya and to AHMSA for allegedly carrying out illegal operations.

The ministry’s money-laundering czar Santiago Nieto said the case also had links to Brazilian builder Odebrecht, whose executives have testified about bribes to politicians across Latin America.

“Operations with possibly illicit resources linked to acts of corruption were detected, particularly transfers of financial resources deposited by Altos Hornos de Mexico in an Odebrecht phantom shell company, and part of the money reached Mr. Lozoya’s accounts,” Nieto said on Mexican radio.

Coello previously told Reuters that his client did not receive bribes from AHMSA or Odebrecht and that none of Lozoya’s work at Pemex has been proven to have involved corruption.

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Why WA Antis Should Be Embarrassed by Wenatchee Groin Shooter

Felons shouldn’t have these, but they do despite gun control laws pushed by anti-rights lobbying groups. (Dave Workman)

While people are laughing hysterically about the Wenatchee, Wash., felon who is in big trouble with the law after shooting himself in the genitals last month, the case should be embarrassing for Evergreen State anti-gunners whose legislative schemes and initiative sales jobs have only resulted in impairments against honest citizens.

Cameron Jeffrey Wilson, a 13-time convicted felon at age 27, is now facing charges ranging from drug offenses to witness tampering. He is also a walking—albeit uncomfortably—testament to the failure of gun control laws.

Wilson reportedly had a pistol in his pocket back on April 5—a violation of state and federal laws—when it discharged, launching a bullet right through his family jewels and into his thigh. That was just the beginning of his problems.

The recidivist felon, according to the Wenatchee World, didn’t go straight to the hospital. Instead, he told his girlfriend to drive to the city’s Lincoln Park, where he gave the gun to a friend, a violation of Initiative 594’s background check requirement. How Wilson originally got that gun hasn’t been revealed, but it’s a certainty he didn’t purchase it at one of the city’s gun stores, and if he bought it at a gun show, it would have been an illegal transaction.

At the hospital, his treatment revealed more than the Emergency Room staff anticipated. While he was being treated, a balloon filled with marijuana fell out of his anus, reports say. That probably doesn’t fall under the definition of recreational marijuana use.

When Chelan County sheriff’s detectives arrived at the hospital, they searched his car and found a bag of meth in his blood-soaked jeans, a violation of various drug laws. Lawmen didn’t arrest Wilson on the spot, but did obtain an arrest warrant, and he was charged April 16. Wilson surrendered two days later.

The suspect wasn’t finished with foolishness. At the jail, when he was strip searched, another balloon of pot popped out of his backside, published reports say. That’s a violation of laws against having a controlled substance in a correctional facility, newspapers said.

But the string of stupid behavior appears to have continued. Wilson allegedly made several calls from the jail to his girlfriend, encouraging her to be uncooperative with investigators. That’s called witness tampering, and it’s another crime.

On June 18, he’s scheduled for trial on charges of second-degree felon in possession of a firearm and possession of meth, along with the charge of having a controlled substance in the jail.

On July 9, he’s scheduled for trial on the witness tampering charge.

Over the past five years, law-abiding Evergreen State gun owners have been essentially treated like criminals for merely wishing to exercise a constitutionally enumerated fundamental right. Meanwhile, real criminals like Wilson evidently haven’t been prevented, as the gun prohibition lobby has repeatedly intimated while pushing their anti-rights agenda, from getting guns.

Their most recent foray into eroding the Second Amendment hit a speed bump earlier this week when a U.S. District Court judge in Tacoma denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Initiative 1639, a measure that many believe should never have been allowed on the ballot. Plaintiffs in the case include the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association, two firearms retailers and four young adults whose rights were stripped by public vote—not for any crime they didn’t commit, but because of a crime someone else committed—so they cannot purchase any kind of semiautomatic rifle until they are 21 years of age.

The case may now proceed.

Wilson’s misadventures are getting huge laughs all over the country. But behind the laughter are plenty of reasons to frown over laws that only penalize the law-abiding, while lawbreakers ignore them, at least until they shoot themselves in their privates.

https://www.libertyparkpress.com/why-wa-antis-should-be-embarrassed-by-wenatchee-groin-shooter/

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