by Matthew Russell Lee, Substack
LITERARY COURTHOUSE, Feb 22 – Alex Ardon had been the mayor of Paradise, or Paraiso. In that role he had authorized other drug traffickers to come onto his turf and kill their enemies.
He himself killed, those ones for revenge. An older man stole a cow from his father and also tried to kill him. Instead he was killed by Alex Ardon.
These murders were confessed to, more than 50 of them, in Ardon's cooperation deal.
And in the Juan Orlando Hernandez trial, Ardon was brought to lower Manhattan from a jail in Bergen, New Jersey, to answer questions first from the prosecutors, from the end of one day to the afternoon of the next, then from JOH's old lawyer Colon, who had not finished by day's end.
Ardon described El Chapo coming to a meeting in the house he built for his mother, a million dollars in a briefcase that had to be protected by three cars. The area, he said, was mountainous.
JOH gave Ardon's brother Hugo the job as head of the road paving agency. And this million dollars, Ardon said, was for JOH's campaign. To keep them all safe from prosecution, safe from extradition to the North.
Except now here they all were, Chapo in Super Max under Colorado with Saipov, and Ardon here, testifying against JOH...
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