‘It Was a Reckoning’: DEA Witness Reveals Alleged Motive for Paco Stanley’s Murder

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A former DEA informant revealed the alleged motive for the murder of Paco Stanley and who would have ordered the crime.

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Jorge Godoy, a protected witness for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), points to Juan Esparragoza Moreno, known as “El Azul,” as the mastermind behind the murder of Paco Stanley. The execution order stemmed from a four-million-dollar debt the television host received in the late 1980s for money laundering operations, which he never repaid. The former bodyguard of drug trafficker “Don Neto” arrived in Mexico to meet with the media a…