Cleaning Operation

Partners in corruption:

Colin Strother, Mr. Cueller’s former campaign manager, and consultant Florencio Rendon admitted to conspiring with an elected official, with details in their guilty pleas matching information laid out in the indictment against Mr. Cueller. Mr. Strother and Mr. Rendon each face up to 20 years in prison, although their sentences are likely to be much less since they’ve agreed to cooperate. According to the unsealed documents, Mr. Cuellar helped connect Mr. Rendon with an executive at a Mexican bank who conveyed that the bank was having difficulty finding a U.S. institution to partner with to facilitate payments from Mexican workers in the United States to their family members back home. Mr. Rendon reached an agreement that would pay a company owned by Mr. Cuellar and Mr. Cuellar’s wife, Imelda Cuellar, $12,000 a month in exchange for consulting, according to a draft contract described in one of the plea deals.

It was a good job while they had it...