FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna attends a meeting with the Human Rights commission at the Senate in Mexico City November 29, 2012. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Genaro Garcia Luna, who for several years led Mexico's fight against the country's violent drug trade, should spend the rest of his life in prison after accepting bribes to protect the cartels he was supposed to fight, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
Garcia Luna faces an Oct. 9 sentencing in Brooklyn federal court before U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan, following his February 2023 conviction for engaging in a criminal drug enterprise, taking part in various conspiracies and making false statements.
