WFAA Investigates: A fugitive, a $350M fraud case, a lot of airplanes and one tiny Texas town (Full) скачать в хорошем качестве

WFAA Investigates: A fugitive, a $350M fraud case, a lot of airplanes and one tiny Texas town (Full)

Federico Machado is an international fugitive with a story to tell. In an interview with WFAA, he says he is not a criminal, but rather the victim of overzealous prosecutors who have accused him of narcotrafficking, money laundering and defrauding investors and lenders of at least $350 million in a scheme to sell airplanes that either didn’t exist or weren’t for sale. He is fighting extradition to the United States from his native Argentina. He is currently on house arrest awaiting a ruling by that country’s highest court. “The way they portray me is like you’re talking to El Chapo,” Machado said, referring to the former Mexican drug lord of the Sinaloa Cartel. “The feds have nothing against me on the criminal case, on the drug case. Zero.” Machado spoke last year to WFAA via Zoom. “I'm not a saint,” he said. “I made mistakes, but I'm not a narcotrafficker.” Whether Federico Machado is a narcotrafficker, we don’t know. What do know is that a series of stories WFAA aired starting in 2019 led to a federal investigation resulting in the indictment of Machado and seven other people. Prosecutors also told WFAA that their counterparts in Colombia attribute a dramatic reduction in the number of narcotrafficking flights to the indictments. But before we tell you more about Machado and the indictments, let’s go back to where it all started – thousands of miles from Argentina, in Onalaska, an East Texas town nestled along the shores of Lake Livingston. FULL STORY: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/loc...