Alejandro Mayorkas
 Alejandro Mayorkas     (lawyer) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1959-11-24 Havana, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley, Loyola Law School | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Democratic | ||||||||||||||||||
A lawyer connected to Bill Clinton's 'Pardongate' episode
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Commutation of the prison sentence of Carlos Vignali
Mayorkas was the United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1998 to 2001.[1] According to the Washington Post, this job involved overseeing prosecutions for public corruption, immigration, narcotics trafficking and money laundering.[2]
In 2001, Mayorkas was criticized by the House Committee on Government Reform for his involvement in the commutation of the prison sentence of Carlos Vignali, who had served six years of a fifteen-year sentence for his role in a drug-trafficking operation when he was granted clemency by the then-United-States-President Bill Clinton,[3] one of 176 commutations and pardons performed by Clinton during his last few hours in office.[4]
According to Politico, Mayorkas had phoned the White House to argue that Vignali should be released, apparently in answer to a request by Vignali's father, a well-known Los Angeles businessman.[5] Unknown to Mayorkas, Vignali's father had been suspected of drug trafficking by federal law enforcement, but there had never been enough evidence to bring a case against him. Mayorkas apologized, saying, "It is reasonable to expect that someone in my position would do his or her due diligence to learn that information, ... I made a mistake."[3]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Munich Security Conference/2023 | 17 February 2023 | 19 February 2023 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere. |
| Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
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- ↑ Carrie Budoff Brown (November 14, 2008). "Clinton scandal figure on Justice team". Politico. Retrieved July 10, 2012.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
