Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz (born September 9, 1972

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) is

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politician affiliated with the

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(PRI). He served as

Governor of Nuevo León The Mexican state of Nuevo León has been governed by more than a hundred individuals in its history, who have had various titles and degrees of responsibility depending on the prevailing political regime of the time. Under the current regime, e ...

from 2009 to 2015. He was linked by ''Operation Tornado'' prosecution to legal proceedings against him for

embezzlement Embezzlement is a crime that consists of withholding assets for the purpose of conversion of such assets, by one or more persons to whom the assets were entrusted, either to be held or to be used for specific purposes. Embezzlement is a type ...

property crime Property crime is a category of crime, usually involving private property, that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. Property crime is a crime to obtain money, property, o ...

abuse of authority Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices, crimes, or other t ...

and

unjust enrichment In laws of equity, unjust enrichment occurs when one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances that the law sees as unjust. Where an individual is unjustly enriched, the law imposes an obligation upon the recipient to make res ...

among 14 other public servers, deputies and former deputies as well as relatives and partners of the politician. For that reason he was held in preventive custody on January 26, 2017.

Political career

Medina earned his bachelor's degree from

Universidad Regiomontana The Universidad Regiomontana (known by its shortened name U-ERRE, and previously by the abbreviation UR) is an institution of higher education in Monterrey, México. This university has its origin in the Instituto Modelo de Educación (Model Edu ...

and his master's from the

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, incl ...

. His political career has been linked to Jose Natividad Gonzalez Paras to whom he served in different positions. In 2006 Medina was elected federal deputy representing the 2nd federal electoral district in Nuevo Leon. In 2009 Medina ran for

; he won defeating PAN candidate Fernando Elizondo Barragan Medina took office as

on October 4, 2009. In Coahuila, Humberto Medina worked for the State's PRI administration as a Finance Minister. He wanted to be governor of the state but he was involved in a hospital medical equipment robbery so he was forced to quit the campaign and to move to Nuevo Leon. In Nuevo Leon Rodrigo worked for the Natividad Gonzalez' Administration and later decided to make a campaign for the State's Government which he won in 2009. After five and a half years, he took the state's debt from $25,000 Mdp to over $100,000 Mdp. The newly elect Governor of the state, Jaime Rodriguez on an interview for El Norte said that the finances of the state are orphan (without mother) to express the state of the finances. During an interview with Hector Benavides host for gossip news for the Multimedios TV network, Rodrigo explained that the debt was good for the people. After the interview he flew on the state's helicopter to McAllen, TX where his children actually go to school. The FBI and DEA opened an investigation of the Medina family because of the luxury properties they have mainly in San Antonio, TX Medina denies the charges and he declares that all the wealth he has, has been obtained with his hard work since it hasn't been easy to plan how to get all the money from the state and it required hard work and dedication during the six years period. His administration ended on October 3, 2015. He has been declared the governor with the highest debt ever for the state of Nuevo Leon since he took the debt from 25,000 Million pesos to an estimated 120,000 Million pesos including short term debt.

References

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