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Del Records CEO Begins Trial, Calls Charges Linked to Drug Kingpin Act ‘Deeply Wrong’

Del Records CEO Angel Del Villar is expected to face testimony from his former label star Gerardo Ortiz, who prosecutors say took a plea deal

Goldberg claimed that the evidence will show Gutierrez was actually working as “a paid confidential formant” for the FBI at the time and helped authorities “manufacture a gotcha situation to take down someone they perceived to be on top.” According to prosecutors, FBI agents tracked Ortiz down at a Phoenix airport and handed him a letter in April 2018 that informed him he needed to stop performing at shows organized by Mexico-based promoter Jesus “Chucho” Perez Alvear. “Gerardo Ortiz has himself pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transact [with] a specially designated narcotics trafficker, one of the crimes the defendants in this trial are charged with,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Schwab revealed Tuesday.

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