DMG is a “financial” case out of Colombia where the conspirators were tried or pled guilty and punished–in Colombia. The ring leader received thirty years. Both Panama and Colombia investigated the case and found insufficient evidence to show that the proceeds were narcotic related. But the U.S. has indicted several of the conspirators on charges of laundering narcotics proceeds and requested their extradition. So what does the United States expect to find?
What will happen is one or more of the frightened defendants will turn on their co-conspirators and before you know it the U.S. will have the evidence Colombia and Panama could not find. Most, if not all, of the DMG defendants will cooperate and plead guilty to knowingly laundering narcotics proceeds with the intent of concealing the source, even though none of them are guilty of a U.S. crime.
The impending extradition of the former president of Guatemala is another case that does not belong in the United States. The former president is charged with looting the Guatemalan treasury. Let Guatemala try him.
Why extradite these defendants? Money. The United States has more money in its “extradition” budget than it knows what to do with. Rather than return the surplus, the government goes after the little guys and those who do not even belong here. No government agency ever met a dollar they did not want to spend.