page_title: Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
section_title: Extradition to the United States
hierarchical_section_title: Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela / Extradition to the United States
caption_attribution_description: English: image depicting capture of gilberto rodriguez orejuela. http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/history/deahistory_06.htm
context_page_description: Gilberto José Rodríguez Orejuela is a Colombian former drug lord, who once was one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, based in the city of Cali.
context_section_description: Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela was extradited to the United States on December 3, 2004.  His brother Miguel was also arrested. 
  On September 26, 2006, both Gilberto and Miguel were sentenced to 30 years in prison, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to import  cocaine to the U.S. His extradition until today is considered illegal since it had been approved in 1997 while it was not for crimes that occurred before the enactment of the law. They took this deal in exchange for the United States agreeing not to bring charges against their family members. Their lawyers, David Oscar Markus and Roy Kahn, were able to obtain immunity for 29 family members.
  On November 16, 2006, the brothers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to engage in money laundering. Both were sentenced to an additional 87 months in prison. The two prison terms were set to run concurrently.
  Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela is serving his 30-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Butner, a medium-security facility in North Carolina. Inmate number 14023-059 with a release date of February 9th, 2030, when he will be 90 years old. 
  On March 5, 2018, a Colombian court sentenced eight relatives of the Rodriguez brothers to nine years in prison for laundering money that had been obtained during the Rodriguez brothers' time as heads of the Cali Cartel.  Specifically, the court found that the family had used their legitimate businesses (including the pharmacy chain Drogas La Rebaja) to launder billions of pesos.  These individuals had also shifted the money through various bank accounts in order to make it appear legitimate.
  In February of 2020, Gilberto Rodriguez-Orejuela, 81 asked a Miami federal judge to allow him to complete his sentence in Colombia because he suffers from prostate and colon cancer after only serving half of his 30 years term.
caption: Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela processed after being captured
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