Miami Herald: FBI agent testifies in Posada trial that he didn’t obtain records

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Friday, 03.04.11
FBI agent testifies in Posada trial that he didn’t obtain records
.An FBI agent testified at the Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles trial in El Paso that he didn’t obtain money transfer records from Central America.

By Alfonso Chardy
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EL PASO, Texas -- The lead FBI agent in the Luis Posada Carriles case acknowledged in testimony Friday at the exile militant’s trial that he failed to obtain records in Central America to verify if Posada or his associates there received money allegedly wired to them from New Jersey in 1997.

“I did not verify,’’ said Omar Vega, the FBI agent, during questioning by Posada’s lead attorney Arturo V. Hernandez. “We did not think those records would still be available.’’

Vega also acknowledged that many of the records of Western Union remittances from New Jersey to Guatemala and El Salvador are copies, because the originals were destroyed by the FBI when a prior investigation was closed.

Vega’s testimony was elicited by Hernandez in a bid to persuade the jury that the FBI did not do a proper and thorough investigation of the remittances, central to the federal government’s case against Posada who, at the time in 1997, was hiding in Central America.

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[flamingdem]

1. Thanks for staying on top of this story Judy nt