Drug Kingpin Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking In NYC

A Canadian Drug Kingpin Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking In NYC and Gets 20 Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence

Jimmy “Cosmo” Cournoyer, 33, a native of Quebec, Canada faces a mandatory 20 years in prison after a plea agreement was reached with Brooklyn federal prosecutors last week in New York. Cournoyer was one of New York City’s biggest marijuana traffickers, and had alliances with New York’s Bonnano crime family, the Hell’s Angels, Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and two more organized crime organizations in Montreal. Cournoyer’s trafficking scheme operated by growing high quality marijuana in British Columbia, transporting it to Quebec, and then across the border into the U.S. The proceeds from the New York marijuana sales were then flown in private jets from New York to California, where the cash was smuggled into Mexico to purchase cocaine from the Sinaloa cartel.

At a hearing in New York last week, Cournoyer’s defense attorney discussed options with his client for 20 minutes before deciding to go forward with the plea.

To read more about Cournoyer’s illicit activities and the New York hearing, please click on the following link:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/french_canadian_drug_kingpin_pleads_yc0mujvl8BDyUPB31eVBvN

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