US EditionA Timeline of Ángel del Villar’s Legal Saga
- Ángel del Villar, the CEO of regional Mexican powerhouse label Del Records, was found guilty by a federal jury on March 27 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom after an eight or nine-day trial for conspiring to violate the Kingpin Act by doing business with concert promoter Jesus Chucho Prez Alvear.
- The charges stemmed from a 2022 criminal complaint alleging that Del Villar and his company, Del Entertainment, violated the Kingpin Act, which prohibits U.S. Residents from conducting business with sanctioned individuals involved in the illegal drug trade, such as Perez, who was linked to Mexican drug cartels and had been added to the U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions list in 2018 for allegedly laundering money for the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación and Los Cuinis.
- Evidence presented during the trial, which involved events from 2018 and 2019, showed that Del Villar and Del Entertainment funneled at least 3.5 million pesos into concerts promoted by Perez in various Mexican locations, despite Perez being blacklisted under the Kingpin Act on April 6, 2018.
- Corridos star Gerardo Ortiz, previously managed by Del Villar and signed to Del Records, testified against Del Villar, stating he performed at the Feria de San Marcos in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in April 2018, a performance promoted by Prez Alvear; Del Villar's defense lawyer, Marissa Goldberg, argued that Del Villar had been manipulated, stating, "There is something deeply wrong and manipulative about how this case was created and investigated," while the U.S. Attorney stated, "The defendants here chose to get into business with an individual they knew had ties to the CJNG and had been designated a narcotics trafficker under the Kingpin Act."
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Los Angeles Music Executive Convicted of Illegal Ties to Mexican Concert Promoter
LOS ANGELES—A Southland music executive and his company were found guilty on March 27 of conspiring to do business with a Guadalajara-based concert promoter with ties to Mexican drug cartels. Angel Del Villar, 44, of Huntington Beach, the chief executive of Del Records and its subsidiary talent agency Del Entertainment, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to transact in property of specially designated narcotics traffickers in violation …
Latin music CEO from Huntington Beach found guilty of violating Kingpin Act
A Huntington Beach resident who heads a Latin music conglomerate and talent agency was found guilty Thursday, March 27 of conducting business with a Mexican concert promoter who had ties to Mexican drug cartels, federal authorities said. José Ángel Del Villar, 44, of Huntington Beach, the CEO of Del Records and its talent agency Del Entertainment Inc., was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to transact in property of specially designated na…
Angel del Villar, owner of Del Records label, found guilty in the United States of doing business with narco
Ángel Villar, owner of the Del Records label, has been found guilty Thursday in the United States of doing business with the narco. The 45-year-old Mexican businessman from Zacatecas, faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison for carrying out transactions with organized crime, in addition to 10 other charges related to the Law on the Designation of Foreign Heads of Drug Trafficking, or Kingpin Act, which imposes sanctions on foreign persons …
Del Records CEO found guilty after doing business with cartel-linked concert promoter
Ángel Del Villar and his talent agency, Del Entertainment, were found guilty of conspiring to violate a federal law that prohibits U.S. residents and companies from doing business with known drug traffickers and their associates.
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