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Two other high-ranking cartel figures, one of whom used to be the security chief for the Sinaloa cartel, are now sitting in a Chicago jail awaiting arraignment on trafficking and money laundering charges.
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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Resistance from Dennehy and other high-ranking FBI officials was believed to have kept thousands of agency employees who worked on the Jan. 6 investigation from being cut loose, according to NBC News.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
Trump doesn’t need to do such a thing, because the modern equivalents of Limbaugh are inside his administration as high-ranking staff members.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
Villarreal-Hernandez has been a high-ranking member of the Beltran-Leyva Organization Drug Cartel, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Resistance from Dennehy and other high-ranking FBI officials was believed to have kept thousands of agency employees who worked on the Jan. 6 investigation from being cut loose, according to NBC News.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
Trump doesn’t need to do such a thing, because the modern equivalents of Limbaugh are inside his administration as high-ranking staff members.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
Villarreal-Hernandez has been a high-ranking member of the Beltran-Leyva Organization Drug Cartel, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
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“High-ranking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-ranking. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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