Tag: Corruption
Maui Official Took Vegas Trips, Cash in Bribery Scheme
Former Maui County Environmental Management official Wilfred Tamayo Savella charged with accepting bribes in a bribery scheme involving Honolulu businessman Milton Choy. The charges allege that Savella accepted over $40,000 in bribes in exchange for influencing sole source contracts. FBI committed to investigating and prosecuting corruption in Hawaii government. Potential sentence of up to 10…
Bolivia’s Top Cop: 25 Years for Coke Traffick
⏱ 2 min read Maximiliano Davila Perez, the ex-director of Bolivia’s anti-narcotics force, will spend the next 25 years in a federal prison. The 50-year-old was sentenced today in Manhattan Federal Court after a jury found him guilty in October of shielding cocaine cartels and running the drugs into New York City. He was extradited…
Bolivia’s Top Cop Caged: 25 Years
⏱ 2 min read Former director of Bolivia’s anti-drug force, Maximiliano Davila Perez, 50, learned his fate today in a New York federal courtroom: 25 years in prison. Perez wasn’t busting cartels – he was running product, federal prosecutors proved to a jury. Extradited from Bolivia last December, Perez used his power to grease the…
Bolivian Cop Gets 25 Years for Coke Pipeline
⏱ 3 min read Maximiliano Davila Perez, the former director of Bolivia’s anti-drug agency, is facing a quarter-century in federal prison after a New York jury convicted him of orchestrating a cocaine pipeline into the United States. The 50-something Perez didn’t just turn a blind eye to the cartels; he was on their payroll, guaranteeing…
