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Mexico says FBI investigating governor's links to money laundering
The governor of the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas is under investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged money laundering, Mexico’s president said on Thursday, less than three weeks before pivotal midterm elections. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador showed a letter from an FBI representative that said Governor Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca of the opposition center-right National Action Party (PAN) was among several people believed to be involved in money laundering in the United States, Mexico and other countries. “It’s a question that the (attorney general’s office) is ... (full story)