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@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela and his brother [[Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela|Miguel]
Rodríguez Orejuela was arrested in [[Spain]] in November 1984 and extradited from Spain to [[Colombia]] in 1986; while he was in a Spanish prison he met the lawyer William Moran, who was visiting another client, [[Jorge Luis Ochoa]], and who represented the brothers in the [[United States]] from then on. He was indicted in the mid-1980s in the Eastern District of Louisiana, and the United States asked Colombia to extradite him; in 1990 the Colombian Supreme Court declared the extradition treaty with the United States unconstitutional. He was added to the Miami case *United States v. Austin* by a superseding indictment of September 28, 1994. As of 1997 he had never appeared before an American court.[^2] According to [[Cheri Seymour]], he and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|José Santacruz Londoño]] had been targets of the [[DEA]]'s Centac 21 task force, which obtained indictments in [[Los Angeles]] and New York in 1978 that went no further; the task force was disbanded, and some DEA agents suspected a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] connection. She also wrote that he led a delegation to a "cocaine summit conference" in [[Panama City]] in the early 1980s, that his name was later removed from DEA reports, and that he owned the Northside Bank of Miami.[^1]
He and Miguel were imprisoned in Colombia in 1995 and continued to run the cartel from prison through Miguel's son, William Rodríguez Abadía, who pleaded guilty in Miami on March 8, 2006. After Colombia lifted its ban on extraditing nationals in 1997, investigations in Miami and New York produced new charges covering conduct after that date; Gilberto was extradited in December 2004 and Miguel in March 2005. On September 26, 2006, before Judge Federico A. Moreno in the Southern District of Florida, each pleaded guilty to conspiring to import five kilograms or more of cocaine, admitting responsibility for more than 200,000 kilograms smuggled between about 1990 and July 2002, and each was sentenced to thirty years. They agreed to a forfeiture judgment of 2.1 billion dollars, and 28 relatives agreed to give up their interests in the family's businesses, including the Drogas La Rebaja pharmacy chain, in exchange for eligibility to be removed from the Treasury's list of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers; the government agreed not to prosecute six of them. The Miami case, prosecuted under U.S. Attorney [[Alexander Acosta|R. Alexander Acosta]], grew out of Operation Cornerstone, an investigation begun in August 1991 after the discovery of more than 12,000 kilograms of cocaine in a cargo of cement posts at the port of Miami.[^4] The New York money-laundering charge, transferred to Miami, brought a further 87 months, concurrent with the thirty-year term, on November 17, 2006.[^5]
He and Miguel were imprisoned in Colombia in 1995 and continued to run the cartel from prison through Miguel's son, William Rodríguez Abadía, who pleaded guilty in Miami on March 8, 2006. After Colombia lifted its ban on extraditing nationals in 1997, investigations in Miami and New York produced new charges covering conduct after that date; Gilberto was extradited in December 2004 and Miguel in March 2005. On September 26, 2006, before Judge Federico A. Moreno in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida|Southern District of Florida]], each pleaded guilty to conspiring to import five kilograms or more of cocaine, admitting responsibility for more than 200,000 kilograms smuggled between about 1990 and July 2002, and each was sentenced to thirty years. They agreed to a forfeiture judgment of 2.1 billion dollars, and 28 relatives agreed to give up their interests in the family's businesses, including the Drogas La Rebaja pharmacy chain, in exchange for eligibility to be removed from the Treasury's list of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers; the government agreed not to prosecute six of them. The Miami case, prosecuted under U.S. Attorney [[Alexander Acosta|R. Alexander Acosta]], grew out of Operation Cornerstone, an investigation begun in August 1991 after the discovery of more than 12,000 kilograms of cocaine in a cargo of cement posts at the port of Miami.[^4] The New York money-laundering charge, transferred to Miami, brought a further 87 months, concurrent with the thirty-year term, on November 17, 2006.[^5]
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