Louis Matias Karl Padin Varela (23 de junio de 1980), ms conocido como Matias Varela, es un actor sueco, hijo de padres espaoles. Ex-UCLA coach Jorge Salcedo sentenced for taking kickbacks in college admissions scandal By Jesse O'Neill March 20, 2021 9:53pm Updated Former UCLA soccer coach Jorge Salcedo was sentenced to. For Jorge Salcedo, who made vengeful enemies of the most notorious crime bosses in the drug world, hiding has been a way of life for nearly two decades. Salcedo said he takes . It was aborted at the last minute. Where were you? Thats what brought down the Cali cartel, and it can make a difference in other countries where a culture of acceptance makes corruption especially stubborn. They were in total despair. Immigration activists rallied outside the Legislative Office Building Thursday to protest the planned deportation of U.S. Army veteran Jorge Luis Salcedo, a Glastonbury resident with a wife and . From Austin Butler and Cate Blanchett to a potential Best Supporting Actress toss-up, see who EW thinks will win at the 2023 Oscars. The youngest boss, Pacho Herrera, sometimes liked to use local police as sentries at his home. Two heavily armed Hughes 500 helicopters, painted in the olive green of Colombias national police, flew a 12-man team of Salcedos mercenaries to a mountain staging area. Salcedo arrived in Cali in time for a business boom. Others were more directly involved in routine bribery, but I still managed to deliver nearly a million dollars in payoffs. "I got a call from Miguel, and he said, 'You have to be get me out of this . In the wrong hands, his extensive records of bribes and business dealings posed a greater threat to operations than the inconvenience of the brothers spending a few years of lavish confinement in a Colombian jail. He was very well known, so eventually, he was called by some friends who were connected to the cartel. I've never killed anybody! Today, the brothers are serving what probably will be life terms in U.S. federal prison. Federal drug agents had to prove the cartel leaders continued to operate their empire from prison, after the extradition ban was lifted. It bought time. I wanted to go to someone, but I didnt even know on what door to knock, he said. The Bogota team listened, tapped on cement walls and floors, then pulled out power drills and bored into suspicious areas. Last edited on 3 September 2022, at 05:41, Learn how and when to remove this template message, United States Federal Witness Protection Program, United States Army Command and General Staff College, "Revelan identidad del hombre que compr las bombas MK-82", "The real Jorge Salcedo talks about what the show gets right", "A daring betrayal helped wipe out Cali cocaine cartel", "Defense lawyer pleads guilty to aiding cartel", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jorge_Salcedo_Cabrera&oldid=1108223474, This page was last edited on 3 September 2022, at 05:41. It was a very bad idea, but they sent me anyway. District of Massachusetts Salcedo pleaded guilty in Miami to a single count of racketeering. They have not yet been sentenced. I was invited to L.A. We don't have one chance with these killers. In telephone interviews ranging from a few minutes to more than an hour, he shared details of his role in the cartel and occasional frustrations with life in U.S. exile. The drug bosses there, engaged at the time in a vicious feud with Escobar and the Medellin, summoned the 41-year-old engineer to visit. The Orejuela brothers wanted four Panamanian operatives questioned. My logic is fantastic: How could you think that I would be going to the streets? On season 3 of Netflix's Narcos, it doesn't take long to realize that one man is at the center of all the action: Jorge Salcedo. Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, are among those jailed in the scandal. Right, they fail, but at the same time, Miguel has figured you out and is trying to kill you with a plastic bag over your head. appreciated. Something very close happened to that. Jorge Salcedo was the head of security for the Colombian Cali Cartel . It was a mess. A police raid was scheduled one night to arrest Pallomari at a hiding place. Matias Varela. [2] After being ordered to kill Pallomari, Salcedo began to believe that he had no choice for leaving the operation other than its dismantling. Threatened with arrest, the billionaire brothers fled their palatial homes and managed the syndicate while moving from one safe house to another. Jorge Salcedo Cabrera (born November 25, 1947) is a Colombian civil engineer, countersurveillance specialist, and former head of security for Miguel Rodrguez Orejuela and the Cali Cartel who turned confidential informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration. For years he had protected the bosses, their wives and children. The show presents a very tense relationship between you and Miguel's son, David. In exchange, Salcedo accepted a $100,000 bribe from Singer. Its secret chamber gave up a trove of records that delighted Serrano -- 30,000 checks, cartel payments to police, 150 politicians, reporters, everyone, Salcedo said. UPDATE, March 23, 6:12 a.m.: Former UCLA soccer coach Jorge Salcedo said he couldn't afford the $1.9 million Century City home he bought for his family in 2016. But that's the thing in intelligence, sometimes when you do something good, don't tell anybody. That scene where they have me and Miguel locked in a room [where Miguel asks Jorge to stay on as security head] is identical. Waiting at a rural airstrip for the cargo plane from Cali to pick up the illicit munitions, Salcedo saw an executive jet swoop out of the clouds. They said, "We need somebody like you to protect us." And William would be there, and he was given jobs too. He dialed the CIA in Virginia. He has done an inestimable service to the U.S. and Colombia, said his lawyer, Robert F. Dunlap of Miami. But Miguel said, Do your job, Salcedo recalled. Lock Fue criado en Sdermalm, al sur de Estocolmo. Pallomari did not trust the cartels chief of security, but he went to another hideout. Salcedo insisted the drug lord was there. He is still No. Oh yes, that was a very tense moment. He dialed the main switchboard of the CIA in Langley, Va. Listen, this may sound unusual, he said he told the duty officer who answered. That was attempt number one [to arrest Miguel]. But I knew too much already. Salcedo said he takes complete responsibility for his actions that have destroyed the life he knew. Giannulli is still serving out a five-month sentence for his role in paying half a million dollars in bribes to get his daughters into USC under false pretenses. He sometimes complained to me. The enforcer insisted Salcedo stay. I never wanted to be a part of that, I wanted to be outside. In December '88, my friend retired from the army abruptly. Escobar was the most powerful criminal in the world. Colombians susceptible to extradition. I told myself I was not one of them.. The attack was abandoned. After Pablo was dead, I said, "I'm going. Local police helped. He had emerged bleeding, injured by a power drill. In the days after, the entire Cali cocaine cartel infrastructure was exposed. So I got into the meeting, and I was able to tell him what was happening [with the police], so I was able to earn his trust. He told me, "You get there first just to make sure the road is clear is safe for me." Pam Grier reflects on her most iconic roles, from Coffy to Jackie Brown. There were suspicions of a leak, Salcedo said. Lauren Isackson was listed as a midfielder on the teams roster for the 2017 season but had zero soccer experienceand never set foot on the field during a game, prosecutors said. Within days, Salcedo and Agent Kacerosky were on the phone together. Its secret chamber gave up a trove of records that delighted Serrano 30,000 checks, cartel payments to police, 150 politicians, reporters, everyone, Salcedo said. He attended the University of Los Andes, from which he earned a degree in industrial economics. And I went there just to resolve questions. On a cartel radiophone, Salcedo overheard a call between Miguel and his son, William. I had to lose my old name, and I've been working as an engineer under my new name. It was not an invitation I could refuse, he said. But because I was always at the meeting, I was a witness to everything that was spoken there. My story should start by saying, if you are invited into such an organization, stop -- stop and run away. The biggest bribe I ever handled personally was a half-million-dollar payoff to a Salvadoran air force colonel. Biography Jorge Salcedo was born in Cali, Colombia, and he attempted to run a bio-diesel business after leaving the Colombian Army; he served under Major Carlos Cordova, his future colleague. However, word of Salcedos role reached Cali, 185 miles southwest of Bogota. WITHIN a week of his first conversation with a U.S. agent, Salcedo faced his first life-threatening decision. Nobody asked me, "Would you have a problem with this?" Salcedo used it to help steer accountant Pallomari toward the DEA. Jose Santacruz Londono got right to the point. The pilot was killed. Federal prosecutor Edward Ryan called the defection a very personal betrayal to the Cali bosses, leaving the man marked for death. Matias Varela, the actor who portrays Salcedo, believes his real-life. Jorge Salcedos contacts with The Times began with a handshake in Miami during a brief court appearance in October 1998. Jorge Salcedo, 48, of Dana Point, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to eight months in prison, one year of supervised release and forfeiture in the amount of $200,000. ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. I had no option. Salcedo admitted to taking another six-figure bribe to recruit the son of Xiaoning Sui, of Surrey, British Columbia, to his team, offering him a scholarship. Politicians were considered a long-term investment. [4] Salcedo viewed this as an opportunity to begin his relationship with United States law enforcement. He was chief of security for Colombia's Cali cocaine syndicate when he fled cartel assassins and corrupt police hit men for safety and a new life in the U.S. witness protection program. Former UCLA coach Jorge Salcedo, 47, broke probation by entering Mexico without permission and without a passport last week He is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to a racketeering charge in US. I was buying four U.S.-made bombs 500-pounders that the bosses wanted to drop on Pablo Escobar. This account is based on those interviews, corroborated by court records, sworn testimony and additional interviews with federal agents involved in the case. The Medellin gangs knew he was plotting to kill Escobar. He tried again to signal U.S. authorities. In that same year, Joel Rosenthal, an American lawyer who had helped the Cali Cartel with previous cases, was arrested for his connections to the cartel. Mr. Operatives were arrested. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Salcedo said he takes . BOSTON An Oxford man pleaded guilty on Feb. 2, 2023 in federal court in Worcester to using another individuals name and Social Security number to fraudulently obtain a federal BOSTON A supervisor for the U.S. But behind the fall of the ruthless Orejuela brothers and collapse of their $7 billion-a-year empire lies a story of daring and betrayal. Corruption is the oxygen that keeps organized crime alive. While the scheme was initially designed to be a surprise, bureaucracy led to a prolonged siege of the apartment which ended without an arrest. [2] After the transaction was discovered by national police, Salcedo was outed as a member of the Cali Cartel. He found the four held in different rooms of the house, each bound and tied to a chair -- three men and a woman. He stayed close to Miguel and his family, sharing car rides and meeting with them alone to let his vulnerability erode suspicions. Finally, Escobar went to prison, where he continued to run his cartel and menace rivals from his cell. Not with Harleys, they used two Land Cruisers. So she was forced into being a full-time student. The attack had to be abandoned. They just said, "This is the plan." Jorge "El Navegante" Velasquez was born in Colombia, and he became a . The cartel official has lost his home, his country, his past, even his name. [5], Salcedo was portrayed by Matias Varela in the third season of the Netflix-produced television series Narcos. Four weeks after the failed raid that left Miguel wounded, another police team arrived outside an apartment building in Cali. One day, I came first, and he came second. He made an excuse and tried to leave. The Orejuela brothers promptly absorbed the Medellin cartel and ultimately controlled 80 percent of the international cocaine market. I had no option of saying no. The attack was subsequently called off. Why are we still having these debates? I know something about corruption and organized crime. Jorge Salcedo, the former UCLA men's soccer coach charged in the college admissions scandal, accused the school of using athlete admissions "as a vehicle to raise funds" in a motion filed by his. In 1995, some hits were Salcedos responsibility, including cartel chief accountant Guillermo Pallomari, a Chilean. So my role became other than just Pablo and became to focus on intelligence. The leftover bomb was abandoned. Accompanied by two U.S. agents, the 15-man team of Colombian national police poured silently into the building. Escobar had escaped from prison, only to be tracked down by national police 15 months later. Jorge Salcedo, the former UCLA soccer coach charged with endorsing the fraudulent admission of two students for $200,000 in bribes, will plead guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering,. But they have some information that somebody killed him, I don't know how. Under threat of arrest, the U.S. agents and Serranos team abandoned their search for Miguel Orejuela. [3][pageneeded] In 1992, Salcedo coordinated the purchase and retrieval of several Salvadorian bombs in another plot to kill Escobar. Varela en 2013. I had to go. El hijo de Miguel Rodrguez Orejuela lo buscaba desesperado para matarlo. I had nothing to do with drugs. One night, a police raid was scheduled to arrest Pallomari at a hiding place. In Miami, DEA agents targeted the Cali cartels distribution organizations. Just hide, have many places, change routes and change communications, and create a kind of a wrong idea of where you are. My strategy was to avoid confrontation. I did not go near it. How did you do that? Salcedo was paid a bribe of $100,000 for his actions. Salcedo said he responded: When they pressed for information, Salcedo told them: We are homosexuals. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How much ofNarcos have you seen, especially the new season? Furthermore, the U.S. drug agents were armed, a violation of Colombian law. Jorge Salcedo Cabrera was a counter-surveillance expert employed by the Cali cartel . The families were huge. They never got into their brains that the best thing they should have done is to give up and say "Hey, Pablo is gone, we're done." I had to advise him to be [more] careful.. Salcedo appears under the name of Ricardo Salgado and is portrayed by Luis Fernando Hoyos. Salcedo used it to steer Pallomari toward the DEA. Everyone was going to jail and Miguel said the best thing was to put William in charge of everything. [3][pageneeded] On August6, Salcedo and the DEA collaborated on another assault on Miguel, this time on the Hacienda Buenos Aires. My primary job in the Cali cartel was security for one of four godfathers, Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, the daily operations boss. Inside the apartment they found no one. Calling on a secure phone line from an undisclosed location, Salcedo, now in his late 60s, spoke at length about his time with the cartel, his life since then in the federal witness protection program, and all the things the show gets rightincluding some of the most harrowing scenes. They told him his skills were required to end Escobars reign of terror and to help protect them and their families. But more than a decade after betraying his bosses, Salcedos life remains in jeopardy. THE wonkish, soft-spoken family man was an unlikely drug gang recruit. The new constitution included a no-extradition provision for native Colombians. entrevista realizada por La W a quien fuera por varios aos jefe de seguridad de Miguel Rodrguez Orejuela, Jorge Salcedo. It doesn't make sense that I'm going to go kill a killer. So they told [my friend] Mario, "We need you." Listening in on the phone conversation, Salcedos only thought: What a nightmare. My channel in English: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO30d7NyhO_lS_Qex1WbnfASorry for any mistake that I could have made as english its not my first lengu. Salcedo was ordered to arrange an aerial bomb attack on Escobars wing of the prison. Discovery Company. The Orejuela brothers promptly absorbed much of the Medellin cartel and ultimately controlled 80% of the international cocaine market. The early 1990s were the golden years for the cartel. Within a few months, about 130 people were indicted. [2] Salcedo lived in Kansas for two years while his father attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College, after which the family moved back to Colombia. But more than a decade after betraying his bosses, Salcedos life remains in jeopardy. He wanted to know what I was doing to complete the assassination of Pallomari. SALCEDO had arrived in Cali just in time for a business boom. I had to go. Then, said U.S. prosecutor Ryan, the bodies began to show up.. Eran mediados de 1995 cuando un grupo del. But whatever it was, I got the picture. Heres a list, Rescuers comb wreckage of Greeces deadliest train crash, Ohios U.S. senators introduce bipartisan rail safety bill in wake of East Palestine derailment. They are foreigners and will be very embarrassed by any questions.. The Colombian government now knew he had worked for the Cali cartel. Colombian drug lords Miguel MIAMI The official end of the notorious Cali cocaine cartel came in 2006 in Miami with little more than the rap of a judges gavel. It was not an invitation I could refuse," he said. In 2018, Salcedo agreed with Singer and Khosroshahin to recruit the son of another client of Singers to the UCLA mens soccer team despite the fact that the student did not play soccer competitively. What are you doing in the middle of a cane field? one officer inquired. Another attempt with a massive car bomb succeeded only in injuring one of Escobars. Some people in Cali want a word with you, Salcedo was told in a phone call in January 1989. Miguel and Gilberto were able to corrupt anyone, he said. How did you know where to find me? Pallomari asked the next day. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Mastermind of Varsity Blues college admissions scheme sentenced to over 3 years in federal prison, Mastermind behind college admissions scandal feels regret before sentencing, Womens prison warden accused of running rape club found guilty of sexually abusing inmates, John Stamos defends ex-con Full House co-star Lori Loughlin in wake of scandal. Salcedo insisted that the drug lord was there. The Medellin boss had escaped from prison, and from continuing Cali assassination plots, in 1992 only to be tracked down by national police 15 months later. Jorge Salcedo is a Colombian civil engineer who worked in the Army during the 1980s. As U.S. prosecutor Ryan later would note, then the bodies began to show up., THE far-flung cartel was directed by Cali-based Colombians, but its operatives included many non-. [Laughs] So we had to accommodate to the lifestyle. That night, Salcedo arrived just ahead of the police. The American DEA agents insisted on taking him into protective custody immediately. In addition to being a corporate, tax and government affairs attorney, he specializes in both domestic and international transactions, as well as real estate and international tax planning. After the failed raid Salcedo continued monitoring the communications of national police and rival cartel. At a sentencing hearing, he was praised by agents and prosecutors who recommended leniency. The bosses handed out $20,000 checks like hospitality gifts. He was secretly dispatched to Europe by military leaders to assemble a team of mercenaries. Jorge Salcedo, 48, of Dana Point, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to eight months in prison, one year of supervised release and forfeiture in the amount of $200,000. Today I am in the late 60s. Local police helped. I realized later that I was like in the book 1,001 Nights, where the prince has to keep changing the story to keep people interested. Jorge Salcedo, the former men's soccer head coach at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) facing charges in a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme, arrives at the federal . Furthermore, the American drug agents were armed, a violation of Colombian law. Salcedo realized that this was to be more than an interrogation session. So there's one very tense scene in the show where you're taken to a farmhouse for what you thought would be a meeting. But it was the would-be assassins who ended up dead. He cost $20,000 a month. Cartel bosses launched an internal bloodbath targeting other extraditables. Now that your story is so central to a very popular TV show internationally, do you worry that it might revive interest in you? I started hearing screaming. Back then, GPS was in the hands of the military only, and I had them. The two factions agreed, and Jorge worked with the commandos to develop a plan of attack. I did not feel I was a criminal, Salcedo recalled. [3][pageneeded], In July 1995, Salcedo met with Feistl and Mitchell to devise a plan to capture Miguel Rodrguez Orejuela. But the British mercenaries, waiting months for orders to attack, got bored and rowdy. From mid-July into August 1995, Salcedo played a dual role: the man in charge of security for Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, and his secret betrayer. Miguel was getting paranoid, Salcedo said. Waiting at a rural airstrip for the dawn arrival of a cargo plane from Cali to retrieve the illicit munitions, Salcedo was distressed to see an executive jet swoop out of the clouds. Thus was Salcedo drafted into the Cali cartel. So the family said, "No, no, no, you stay here.". He. The risk was so incredible, Agent Kacerosky said in testimony. Its limited cargo space wasnt designed for bombs. Salcedo says he was with his family the night of the raid and that he never killed anyone. [3][pageneeded] During this time, the Search Blocoriginally formed to hunt Escobarfocused its attention on the Cali Cartel. It was an absurd idea. But suddenly police surrounded them. So all of a sudden the scene became violent. Salcedo was a prime suspect, one of only five to 10 people who knew where Miguel was hiding. I remember that it was surprisingly heavy. And I was there when Cali cartel lawyers were allowed to rewrite our national constitution to outlaw extraditions of Colombian traffickers to the United States. Who contacted you? Besides law enforcement, the cartel bought a piece of Colombias justice system with payoffs to prosecutors who lost evidence, misplaced paperwork, blocked search warrants or released prisoners before they could be questioned. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. The official end of the notorious Cali cocaine cartel came in 2006 in Miami with little more than the rap of a judge's gavel. Miguel, the younger of the two Orejuela brothers, was even more direct: He wanted Escobar dead. Desperate for protection from what they feared most -- extradition to the United States -- the cartel bosses poured millions of dollars into the bank accounts of Colombian politicians. His information on the cartelOperation Cornerstoneled to its eventual disbandment, as a result of which Salcedo and his family have entered the United States Federal Witness Protection Program. Former UCLA All-American Jorge Salcedo is in his 15th season as head coach for the Bruins, making him the second-longest tenured men's soccer head coach in UCLA history. I had to escape, the former cartel official explained. It was not an invitation I could refuse, he said. We had about 150 persons dedicated to caring for the safety of these people, Salcedo recalled. Im calling from Cali, Colombia, and I have important information on how to locate the heads of the cartel.. He had very good connections, and when he retired he started working for some oil and chemical companies. Jorge Salcedo and the Cali Cartel are the focus of Narcos season 3, which premiered on September 1. For a long time, I was thinking that it was the DEA who killed him. However, they present some happenings so that it was me that did them when that was not really the case. You look tired." [3][pageneeded][2]. Dr. Salcedo is a warm and compassionate family physician who has been in private practice in Houston, Texas since 2017. Salcedos story is told in the book, At the Devils Table The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel, by journalist William C. Rempel. He must have brass balls this big.. BOSTON A Florida man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for sending threatening communications to the Department of Veterans Affairs. But I know all that is always permissible in filmmaking, for the dynamics of the story, and to keep everyone's attention and on the edge. One of the few who knew where to find them was Salcedo. He started his career designing . The son was an officer in the army reserves, but he regarded himself more as an engineer than a soldier. At its peak, the family ran what one U.S. Justice Department official told Congress was the most prolific and successful criminal enterprise in history.. Anti-government guerrilla groups unleashed waves of kidnappings that terrorized the nation. In the show, they also depict you as someone who had a plan to leave the cartel to start your own security firm. That part is true. Still, Salcedo used great care -- calling from a public phone and leaving only a vague message offering to be helpful.. The Colombian drug lords Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, 63, and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, 67, entered guilty pleas and were ushered off to federal prison for the next 30 years -- no Miami Vice-like dramatics, no bodies riddled with gunfire in the manner of Medellin rival Pablo Escobar. The extraditables came to be seen as security risks. 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Meanwhile, Salcedo beefed up security for the Orejuela brothers and their extended families -- a mother, four sisters, in-laws, wives and children. So we always arranged our meetings in the woods. Salcedo is the third . Pablo Escobar of Medellin was a bandit a criminal a crazy guy who was threatening to kill their wives and children. He was arrested without incident in his underwear, scurrying for a vault in the wall. They treated him like a crackpot -- I confirmed that, drug enforcement agent Edward J. Kacerosky testified years later.