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Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

posted by Dopefish on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:00PM   
from the money-no-longer-talks dept.

c0lo writes "No, unfortunately surveillance evangelism has not been made illegal overnight.

The EFF reports that, in an ironic twist of karma, FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations. Azano, and three Americans who acted as his agents, are now facing felony charges in an alleged conspiracy to illegally pump roughly $500,000 into local election campaigns in the border city of San Diego.

Does SoylentNews have contributors from Mexico to share with us some insight (or just local gossip) about this shoddy character?"

• re Gossip (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:34AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:34AM (#7109)

  Well, if he's the same man I met a few months ago, he's a heavy-weight in politics in the state of Jalisco (home of Tequila) and in the Defense Secretariat in Mexico, where he is one of the leading suppliers.

  Posting anon because I currently work for a company in Mexico that does sell equipmnent and services to several public safety and defense-related departments and this guy wanted to buy the company; fortunately the private shareholders decided against it and then he offered a large amount to become a partner, but was turned down again.

  A couple of the shareholders told me that his money comes from shady deals done by his father, a "godfather" figure according to what they said. So, like father, like son.

  No hard data, but gossip was called for in TFS.

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