Prosecutors say Leonard George received at least $300,000 in bribes, while his attorney says co-defendants are seeking lighter sentences by blaming George
A prosecutor told jurors Monday that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to allow drugs and undocumented migrants through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, while a defense attorney said the officer was being scapegoated by drug traffickers and his own wife.
The two traffickers then got approval from their boss 'to shower with a lavish party' at the club in order to get him on board with the plan to send drugs and migrants through his lane. Kimura showed the jurors text messages between members of the drug trafficking group discussing a CBP officer being on payroll. He played an audio recording of a drug courier explaining the plan to go through the lane of a corrupt CBP officer.
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