 |
 |
 |
For many years, he was a personal pilot for Carlos Lehder, a kingpin in
Colombia's Medellin drug cartel.
|
|
|
 |
He started out as a youthful marijuana smuggler but got active in trafficking
cocaine into the U.S. during the mid-1970s, working with Carlos Lehder and
his Colombia Medellin cartel.
|
|
|
 |
He is a black peso broker, buying and selling currency between Colombia and
Florida.
|
|
|
 |
Along with his brothers, he ran the most powerful Medellin drug trafficking
organization.
|
|
|
 |
He and his brothers surrendered voluntarily to the Colombian government in
1990-1991 and served short prison sentences.
|
|
|
 |
He dealt drugs at the local level in New York City, buying large quantities of
cocaine, cooking it into crack and selling it on the streets.
|
|
|
 |
He grew up in the San Diego /Tijuana border area and in the 1990s got into
money laundering and drug trafficking working for a while with Tijuana's
notorious Arellano Felix Organization.
|
|
|
 |
He became involved in the Medellin cartel in the early 1980s when Carlos Lehder
invited him into the business as the cartel's public relations
representative, managing political pay-offs, bribes and money laundering.
 |
|
|
 |
He is a retired DEA special agent.
|
|
|
 |
He was a commander in the Mexican Federal Police and the top narcotics officer
during the Carlos Salinas administration.
|
|
|
 |
He was a star undercover informant for the DEA netting 445 dealer arrests and
seizing 1.5 tons of cocaine and $6 million in assets.
|
|
|
 |
He is Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida.
|
|
|
 |
For over ten years he was DEA's agent in charge in Mexico. His primary target
was Felix Gallardo, a Mexican trafficker known as Numero Uno.
|
|
|
 |
A retired U.S. Customs Service special agent, he worked the U.S.-Mexican
border on and off for 30 years.
|
|
|
 |
He is former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.
|
|
|
 |
Landgraff is a group supervisor at the DEA in San Diego and is
investigating the Arellano Felix cartel. De La Montaigne, a retired FBI
special agent, supervised the Arellano Felix Cartel Task Force.
|
|
|
 |
He was a Special Agent with the DEA,1973- 1995 and served as head of
international operations.
|
|
|
 |
He is former DEA chief of financial investigations specializing in money
laundering crimes.
|
|
|
 |
A retired special agent for the DEA, he was Special Agent in Charge for the New
York City office.
|
|
|
 |
He is a former FBI agent and a commander at IMPACT, a South Florida
police agency which tracks black peso and other money laundering crimes.
 |
|
|
 |
Appointed by President Nixon in 1972 to coordinate federal/ local forces to
fight drugs and crime on the streets. Ambrose came up with the idea of a new
superagency--the Drug Enforcement Administration which was created in 1973.
|
|
|
 |
He was President Jimmy Carter's controversial drug czar, 1976-1978. Like many
others in U.S. government during the 1970s, he believed cocaine was a
relatively harmless drug.
|
|
|
 |
She was Assistant Secretary of State for Int't Narcotics Matters during the
Carter Administration.
|
|
|
 |
He served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 1990-1998 when it recommended
that penalties for crack and powder cocaine be equalized because of the unfair
disparity.
|
|
|
 |
While White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs for Richard Nixon, he was given
the task of lowering crime rates in Washington, D.C. This led him to
support a program which treated heroin addicts with methadone.
|
|
|
 |
He was administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration from 1985 to
1989.
|
|
|
 |
He is the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, also known
as the Drug Czar.
|
|
|
 |
He was U.S. Deputy Ass't Sec'y of State for International Narcotics Matters
1994-1999. He worked on the CIA Inspector-General report which investigated
the Contras and cocaine trafficking.
 |
|
|
 |
He worked with heroin addicts in methadone treatment and continued
this work as head of the Nixon Administration's Narcotics Treatment
Administration, 1970-73.
|
|
|
 |
He is a psychiatrist who became head of President Nixon's drug programs and set
up a network of methadone treatment centers for heroin addicts.
|
|
|
 |
He has been a pioneer in the research and treatment of narcotic and
cocaine abuse for over 30 years.
|
|
|
 |
He is Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
 |
|
|
 |
He is a Mexican billionaire businessman who owns majority shares in the Laredo
National Bank in Laredo, Texas.The Hank family was publicly linked to
drug trafficking after a U.S. government raw intelligence report about the
family was leaked to the press.
|
|
|
 |
While a senior member of the National Security Council under President Ronald
Reagan, he supervised the covert U.S. program to help fund the Contras in
Nicaragua.
|
|
|
 |
He is the CEO and President of Laredo National Bank in Laredo, Texas. He has
been the point man in the counterattack launched by Laredo National Bank, its
lawyers and principal shareholder Carlos Hank Rhon after a blizzard of stories
linking them to drug trafficking.
|
