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Louis Vuitton clothes and Vegas hotels: CBP officers spent big with money from Mexican cartels, prosecutors say
It seemed like a harmless work assignment trade. Jesse Garcia, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, was monitoring the pedestrian lane at the border crossing in Tecate on Aug. 22, 2023, when he asked a fellow officer to switch assignments so that …