DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Meets with Gertz Manero

Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 31 October 1939) is a Mexican lawyer and current

Attorney General of Mexico The Attorney General of the Republic is the head of the Attorney General's Office (''Fiscalía General de la República, FGR''; prior to 2019, ''Procuraduría General de la República, PGR'') and the Federal Public Ministry of the United Mexi ...

. He served as Secretary of Public Security during part of

Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elec ...

's government. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the

LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress The LXI Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 1, 2009, to August 31, 2012. Members of the upper house of the Congress were selected in the elections of July 2006 while members of the lower house of the Congress were selected ...

representing the

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Controversies

* In 2022 he was accused of abusing his position as Federal Prosecutor for a personal vendetta, illegally persecuting and jailing Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Moran for the death of his brother Federico Gertz in 2015. * He was accused of influence trafficking and criminal association by the former Counsel to the President, Julio Scherer Ibarra. * He owns several real estate properties in Madrid, Ibiza, Paris, Nueva York, and Los Angeles, and bought 122 luxury vehicles. * In 2021 he was admitted to the Mexican National Researchers System by a special committee, after having tried unsuccessfully for 11 years due to insufficient scientific output. Writer

Guillermo Sheridan Guillermo Humberto Sheridan Prieto (born 27 August 1950) is a Mexican literary critic, scholar and public commentator. Life and work Sheridan was born in Mexico City. He was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia in 1986. He was aw ...

showed evidence of plagiarism in a biography of Guillermo Prieto published by Gertz Manero, which was also reported by a group of 77 researchers. * When he was Public Safety Secretary in the government of Vicente Fox, Gertz Manero was detained by DEA and ATF when he landed in New York in an official Mexican government plane, carrying a false passport and $50,000 dlls in cash. In 2022 the USA government opened another investigation on him.

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