A Mexican federal judge ordered the release of a cartel-connected border-state former governor who was fighting extradition to the U.S.
, in 2015, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas obtained a criminal indictment and an arrest warrant against Hernandez. Prosecutors accused the cartel-connected politician of several money laundering charges. Some of the allegations point to Hernandez moving cartel bribes and embezzling funds to Texas and using some of those funds to purchase properties.
Hernandez is the second Tamaulipas governor to be criminally indicted in a Texas federal court. His predecessor Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, also from the PRI, is serving a nine-year prison sentence on money laundering charges in Texas. Yarrington took a plea deal where prosecutors dismissed some of the more serious charges, including a drug trafficking conspiracy charge that claimed he worked directly with cartels after his term as governor.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on
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