Video:Mexican Drug Cartels Infiltrate California/L.A. Politics (9 min Internet Video)

Los Angeles, CA. According to retired L.A. Sheriff Sgt. Richard Valdemar, a 33 year veteran international gang specialist, Mexican drug cartels have infiltrated city councils and political campaigns in many small cities in Los Angeles County and other areas of the South Western United States. Details of this account are revealed in an Internet preview of a Full Disclosure Network™ four part interview series with Valdemar.

Full Disclosure Network™ presents, on the Internet, a FREE nine minute (9) preview from the series of interviews conducted by Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton with Sheriff’s Sgt.Richard Valdemar (ret). He describes the impact of the Mexican Mafia gangs, drug cartels and illegal aliens in American cities. Available FREE on the internet, 24/7, on demand, as a public service available at the URL: http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Programs/478.php


Here is a summary of Sgt. Valdemar’s Internet preview:

* Sgt. Valdemar cited the following cities as having been infiltrated by the Mexican drug cartels: Lynwood, Bell Gardens, Hawaiian Gardens, South Gate, Huntington Park., Vernon, Cudahy.
* Drug cartels set up phony businesses to launder drug money, usually used car lots, used tire shops that serve as a “front” for their operations.
* Sgt. Valdemar says it all starts when a small business, like a restaurant, is purchased by someone with drug money from Mexico, who sets up shop and starts inviting the city fathers to come for complimentary or discounted meals.
* Then invitations are extended to local police and other government officials, until the business operator is well established, with powerful friends.
* Drug money is used to send out smear campaign literature to destroy reputations of incumbent city council members and to finance the campaigns of challengers whose goal is to get a majority voting block on the city council.
* Once the drug cartel controls the city council, they fire the city attorney, city manager and start giving out contracts, like the trash collection contract, to their cronies.

The entire four-part interview series with Sgt. Richard Valdemar has been scheduled to run on 43 cable systems. Channels and airtimes can be found on the website at www.fulldisclosure.net


Since 1992 the Full Disclosure Network™ has been billed as “the news behind the news” and is an independent, educational, public affairs cable program hosted by Leslie Dutton. In 2002 the FDN program was presented with a Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the Southern California area for their spublic affairs eries entitled “L.A.’s War Against Terrorism”, featuring LAPD Chief Bernard Parks, L.A. County Sheriff Leroy Baca and other city officials. Previews of the programs are provided on the website as a public service.

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