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Brian Mann

He was the head of Mexico's FBI. Now he's on trial for accepting cartel bribes

In this Oct. 8, 2010 file photo, Mexico's Secretary of Public Safety Genaro Garcia Luna attends a press conference on the sidelines of an American Police Community meeting in Mexico City. Garcia Luna, who is in custody and facing drug trafficking charges in New York, has been charged in a superseding indictment with continuing criminal enterprise. (Marco Ugarte/AP)

As U.S. prosecutors rest their case against Mexico's former top cop during a trial in New York City, another question is in play: Are U.S. efforts to stem the flow of deadly Fentanyl from Mexico into the United States doing any good?

Four years ago, the conviction of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman Loera gave prosecutors many other threads to pull on the web of crime and corruption that enables the transnational drug trade.

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