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US DOJ says three more defendants sentenced in transmigrante monopolization suit

( July 1, 2025, 22:10 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Three defendants — Pedro Antonio Calvillo Hernandez, age 50 of McAllen, Texas; Jose de Jesus Tapia Fernandez, age 47 of Brownsville, Texas; and Mireya Miranda, age 59 of San Antonio, Texas — who engaged in a wide-ranging scheme to monopolize the international transit industry, fix prices, extort competitors and launder money were sentenced and fined today, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The long-running and violent conspiracy to monopolize the transmigrante forwarding agency industry operated in the Los Indios, Texas, border region, located near Harlingen and Brownsville, Texas. Defendants controlled the transmigrate industry through fear, monopolization and extortion of competitors, and they laundered proceeds from the conspiracies, the DOJ said. Full statement follows:...

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