Zambada-Niebla claims that under a ?divide and conquer? strategy, the U.S. helped finance and arm the Sinaloa Cartel through Operation Fast and Furious in exchange for information that allowed the DEA, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies to take down rival drug cartels. The Sinaloa Cartel was allegedly permitted to traffic massive amounts of drugs across the U.S. border from 2004 to 2009 ? during both Fast and Furious and Bush-era gunrunning operations ? as long as the intel kept coming.
Based on the alleged agreement ?the Sinaloa Cartel under the leadership of defendant?s father, Ismael Zambada-Niebla and ?Chapo? Guzman, were given carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United States and were also protected by the United States government from arrest and prosecution in return for providing information against rival cartels which helped Mexican and United States authorities capture or kill thousands of rival cartel members,? states a motion for discovery filed in U.S. District Court by Zambada-Niebla?s attorney in July 2011.
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During his initial court proceedings, Zambada-Niebla continually stated that he was granted full immunity by the DEA in exchange for his cooperation. The agency, however, argues that an ?official? immunity deal was never established though they admit he may have acted as an informant....
Zambada-Niebla and his legal council also requested records about Operation Fast and Furious, which permitted weapons purchased in the United States to be illegally smuggled into Mexico, sometimes by paid U.S. informants and cartel leaders. Their request was denied. From the defense motion:
?It is estimated that approximately 3,000 people were killed in Mexico as a result of ?Operation Fast and Furious,? including law enforcement officers in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, the headquarters of the Sinaloa cartel. The Department of Justice?s leadership apparently saw this as an ingenious way of combating drug cartel activities.?
?It has recently been disclosed that in addition to the above-referenced problems with ?Operation Fast & Furious,? the DOJ, DEA, and the FBI knew that some of the people who were receiving the weapons that were being allowed to be transported to Mexico, were in fact informants working for those organizations and included some of the leaders of the cartels.?
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