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“Someone as big as Matta, you won’t find him in L.A., just like you won’t find Lee Iacocca selling cars in L.A.”
--Assistant U.S. Atty. Jimmy Gurule, explaining how the government relied on ledgers and telephone records to persuade a jury to convict wealthy Honduran businessman Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros of running a major cocaine syndicate.
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