Following up on May's 4's "Feds say Mexican Cartels are "smuggling crude oil worth billions of dollars to complicit U.S.-based oil & natural gas companies.".
From the New York Post, May 12:
A Utah oil magnate was arrested along with his wife in a dramatic raid on their opulent, 27,000-square-foot mansion after allegedly smuggling more than $300 million worth of oil from Mexico to the US with the help of drug cartels, according to reports.
James and Kelly Jensen were arrested on April 23 by US Marshals, who used battering rams to bust through the doors of the couple’s $9.2 million mansion outside Salt Lake City, KSLTV reported.
“They were unwilling to come out,” Assistant US Attorney Michael Hess said of the family, which has deep political ties — Kelly’s father, Gordon Walker, worked in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Ronald Reagan, while her mother, Carlene Walker, was a Utah state senator, according to KVEO.
Just days earlier on April 17, the Jensens were indicted on charges they conspired to buy and smuggle more than 2,800 shipments of stolen oil from Mexico into the US as part of an alleged scheme that began three years ago, according to the feds....
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