Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Daniel Rendon Herrera, also known as âDon Mario,â a citizen of Colombia, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry to 35 yearsâ imprisonment for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise as a leader of the paramilitary, multibillion dollar drug organization known as the âClan del Golfoâ (CDG), and 15 yearsâ imprisonment for conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). The sentences will run concurrently. As part of the sentence, the Court ordered Rendon Herrera to pay $45,750,000 million in forfeiture. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charges in November 2021.
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