Scandalous accusations of a drug-trafficker financing José Luis Espert’s 2019 unsuccessful presidential candidacy date back several years, but have come to the forefront. New documents show a US$200,000 payment, providing evidence of funding that had only been rumoured up until now.
Espert is currently headlining the Milei administration’s campaign efforts in the upcoming national midterms, leading the ruling party’s candidate list in the all-important Buenos Aires Province. But he’s also been unable or unwilling to publicly deny receiving the US$200,000 payment, his defence amounting to accusing Kirchnerism of orchestrating a media operation against him. Yet the documentation corroborating the payment comes from an investigation being carried out by US prosecutors for the Eastern District of Texas, in which Argentine national Federico Andrés ‘Fred’ Machado is accused of “various federal violations related to a complex international drug-trafficking conspiracy” including, “conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine, conspiracy to commit money-laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit export violations, and conspiracy to commit federal registration violations invol
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