Joshua Goodman
Latin America Correspondent at Associated Press
The Associated Press, Latin America correspondent based in Miami, a city settled by folks from my native Cleveland
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2 days ago |
yoursun.com | Joshua Goodman |Jim Mustian
TAMPA — A federal judge sentenced a former Colombian customs worker on Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for taking more than $1 million in bribes in a money laundering conspiracy involving a corrupt U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Omar Ambuila, 64, pleaded guilty on the second day of a trial this year that had been expected to shed new light on a misconduct scandal in which more than a dozen U.S. federal agents were quietly disciplined or ousted from their jobs.
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6 days ago |
kdhnews.com | Joshua Goodman |Jim Mustian
TAMPA, Florida (AP) - A federal judge sentenced a former Colombian customs worker on Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for taking more than $1 million in bribes in a money laundering conspiracy involving a corrupt U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Omar Ambuila, 64, pleaded guilty on the second day of a trial this year that had been expected to shed new light on a misconduct scandal in which more than a dozen U.S. federal agents were quietly disciplined or ousted from their jobs.
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6 days ago |
apnews.com | Joshua Goodman |Jim Mustian
TAMPA, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — Una jueza estadounidense sentenció el jueves a un extrabajador de aduanas colombiano a más de 12 años de prisión por aceptar más de 1 millón de dólares en sobornos en una conspiración de lavado de dinero que involucró a un agente corrupto de la DEA, la agencia antidrogas de Estados Unidos.
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6 days ago |
thederrick.com | Joshua Goodman |Jim Mustian
TAMPA, Florida (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former Colombian customs worker on Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for taking more than $1 million in bribes in a money laundering conspiracy involving a corrupt U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Omar Ambuila, 64, pleaded guilty on the second day of a trial this year that had been expected to shed new light on a misconduct scandal in which more than a dozen U.S. federal agents were quietly disciplined or ousted from their jobs.
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6 days ago |
daytondailynews.com | Joshua Goodman |Jim Mustian
Among the would-be witnesses was José Irizarry, a DEA agent now serving a 12-year prison sentence for skimming millions of dollars from money laundering stings to fund a decade's worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery. Prosecutors said Ambuila deserved a harsh sentence for abusing his trust as one of the highest-ranking officials at the Colombian port of Buenaventura, a major transit point for U.S.-bound cocaine.
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A federal judge in Tampa sentenced a former Colombian customs worker on Thursday to 12+ years in prison for taking more than $1 million in bribes in a money laundering conspiracy involving a corrupt U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent. https://t.co/vatHoj7HWX
“There was no clock, no window, no natural light,” recalled Osiris Vázquez about the nearly two weeks he spent in Krome, the U.S.' oldest migrant detention center. “You lost all notion of time, whether it’s day or night.” https://t.co/l7GhAaMHwi
As Trump sought to make good on his pledge of mass arrests, the U.S.' oldest immigration detention facility swelled to three times its capacity. “There are 1700 people here at Krome!!!!,” one @ICEgov employee who felt unsafe texted a co-worker. https://t.co/l7GhAaMHwi