The Chapo case is the gift that keeps giving. Newly unsealed documents suggest that still-unrevealed audio/video recordings exist of members of Chapo's circle, including Alex Cifuentes, it seems. The recordings appear to have been made by Alex's personal assistant, Andrea Velez.
Andrea became an FBI undercover cooperator in 2012. The new documents say that she also brokered a deal with a ghost writer to help Guzman write some chapters of his autobiography and a film script about his life.
Surveillance experts, what does this phrase mean?
"Efforts to locate and capture [Guzman] included THE LAWFUL WARRANTLESS TRACKING OF GEOLOCATION DATA data associated with cellular telephones used by the defendant’s coconspirators."
"Efforts to locate and capture [Guzman] included THE LAWFUL WARRANTLESS TRACKING OF GEOLOCATION DATA data associated with cellular telephones used by the defendant’s coconspirators."
Those "lawful warrantless" techniques were apparently used in both 2012 and 2014 to track Guzman down during capture operations. Does that mean NSA/IC stuff? Sure, sounds like it.
Another detail from the newly released documents:
During Guzman's war w/the Beltran-Leyva brothers he captured & tortured one of their top men, Israel Rincon. A video exists of the interrogation. What's new is this: Guzman hired a doctor to revive Rincon & torture him further.
During Guzman's war w/the Beltran-Leyva brothers he captured & tortured one of their top men, Israel Rincon. A video exists of the interrogation. What's new is this: Guzman hired a doctor to revive Rincon & torture him further.
After Rincon passed out, the doctor helped him regain consciousness. Then Guzman and his torture crew applied electrodes to his ear and shocked him and pulled some of his teeth out.
Coming full circle back to Guzman's book/movie project: the Colombian producer Alex Cifuentes hired for the job, Javier Rey, make the grave mistake of asking for 35% of the project's profits.
Guzman felt Rey was "a thief," the new docs say, and feared he might also be a snitch.
Guzman felt Rey was "a thief," the new docs say, and feared he might also be a snitch.
So he hatched a plot to murder Rey, tasking Alex with the dirty work.
In a rare burst of scruples, Alex ultimately warned Rey about the contract on his head.
And as the documents dryly put it, "The Colombian producer...survived."
In a rare burst of scruples, Alex ultimately warned Rey about the contract on his head.
And as the documents dryly put it, "The Colombian producer...survived."
Lastly from the new documents:
In case you thought that Amazon and Chapo Guzman could not be uttered in the same sentence, well, you're wrong.
Follow this...
In case you thought that Amazon and Chapo Guzman could not be uttered in the same sentence, well, you're wrong.
Follow this...
Remember when the FBI turned Guzman's IT guy who installed spyware on BlackBerries belonging to his wife, his mistresses, his security team and some of his lawyers?
See below:
nytimes.com/2019/01/09/nyr…
See below:
nytimes.com/2019/01/09/nyr…
Well, the spyware data was housed in an Amazon cloud server & when the FBI asked Amazon for help, the firm wasn't exactly helpful.
"Amazon informed...FBI that it would be potentially impossible for Amazon to locate the requested data due to how the servers stored the data."
"Amazon informed...FBI that it would be potentially impossible for Amazon to locate the requested data due to how the servers stored the data."
It took judges and search warrant etc until the company finally came around and let the FBI have access to the spyware data housed on its Cloud servers...
