Vega Lawsuit event
also: Vega's lawsuit, litigation
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Baroque Vegaperson · 6Columbiaplace · 4Washington, D.C.place · 1Carlos Ramon Zapataperson · 1Roberto Uribeperson · 1Arrow Group Jetsorganization · 1Greg Smithperson · 1
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Key figure in exposing all of this information filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit in early 2007 that promised to be quite embarrassing for the government. Filed in U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C., Baroque Vega, a longtime CIA asset,…
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From the lawsuit filed September 21st, 2007, in or about 1996-97, Vega became a documented confidential informant for the U.S. government, specifically two federal law enforcement agencies, the FBI and later the DEA. Mr. Vega was not a trad…
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to negotiate their criminal exposure with the U.S. government rather than waiting to be indicted or arrested and extradited. In other words, make preemptive plea deals and we'll leave you in place. American lawyers to the Colombian targets,…
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The planned program was extremely successful. Who wouldn't want to do it? It gives you carte blanche to be a narco-trafficker. All in all, Vega convinced and successfully recruited 114 to enter this plea deal program. At least 25 of them we…
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that had taken over for Medellin and Cali. Vega claims that corrupt U.S. agents are part of the Bogota connection and seriously compromised his role as a government asset in a number of his informants within the Colombian narco network beca…
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all of this, the author provides us with a list of some, let's see, 19, 26, 32 names of drug traffickers that was listed in Vega's lawsuit. Carlos Ramon Zapata was one of them. Attorney Roberto Uribe was another.…
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Those are the names that I recognized right away. Vega's lawsuit was dismissed by the judge on June 12, 2008, prior to discovery. Didn't want to hear it. It was dismissed on a technicality, the failure to state a claim upon which relief can…
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authorizes compensation under enumerated circumstances to individuals who provide information concerning violations of customs and navigation laws. The statute does not authorize compensation for information of turning in narcotic people. T…
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There's a mention of another aircraft. And this one I've come across several times. Arrow Group Jets. In the lawsuit, quote, on or about November 17th, 1999, the appellate, a DEA supervisor, received an invoice from Arrow Jet.…