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Date: 08-04-2021
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Case Number: 18-CR-200
Judge: Edward R. Korman
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Kings County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
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Description: Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to internationally distribute cocaine. As part of the sentence, the Court entered a forfeiture money judgment of $10 million.
According to court filings and proceedings, from 2009 through 2014, Carlos Gentil Ordonez, age 50, from Cauca, Columbia, participated in a massive international drug trafficking conspiracy responsible for trafficking tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine from laboratories in the Colombian jungle to intermediary locations in Central America and Mexico by sea, before the cocaine was transported to the United States. Ordonez supplied the conspiracy with the cocaine it trafficked and also owned a portion of the multi-ton shipments of cocaine that the organization dispatched from Colombia to intermediary locations, including Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, before being sent to the United States where it was sold. He further increased his share of the profits by receiving payment per kilogram at the substantially higher prices yielded from selling the cocaine further north and closer to the United States. Ordonez received a conservatively estimated $10,000,000 for his involvement in the conspiracy. Ordonez was arrested in Panama in June 2018 and extradited to the United States on July 12, 2018.
This case is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the United States by using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies against criminal networks.
The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s International Narcotics and Money Laundering Section. Assistant United States Attorney Nomi D. Berenson is in charge of the prosecution.
Title 21, United States Code, Sections 963, 960(b)(l)(B)(ii) and 959(d); Title 18, United States Code, Sections 3238 and 3551 et seq. ATTEMPT/CONSPIRACY - NARCOTICS - SELL/DISTRIBUTE/DISPENSE
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Outcome: Colombian Narcotrafficker Sentenced to 210 Months’ Imprisonment for Distributing More Than 30,000 Kilograms of Cocaine to The United States
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