Strange Bedfellows

Someone involved in the legalization of one drug gets caught up in another drug web:

• The co-founder of a major Illinois cannabis company who was convicted in a scheme to lease jets for a Mexican cocaine trafficker was sentenced Wednesday to one year in federal prison.

  Last year, a jury found David Berger guilty of money laundering and illegally structuring cash transactions. He was accused of converting cash from a drug operation into private jet charters for Oswaldo Espinosa, who’s charged with importing thousands of kilograms of cocaine into Illinois and surrounding states in trucks and those planes.

And guess who he was making appearances with during the legalization phase of Cannabis?

 

Not as bad as the murderer he was photographed with a few years back, but still....