FILE PHOTO: Mexico's then-Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna attends a meeting in Mexico City November 29, 2012. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Mexican government official who oversaw public security in his country pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. charges he accepted millions of dollars in bribes to protect the Sinaloa drug cartel once run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and let it operate with impunity.
Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, entered his plea through a translator at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, where lawyers signalled he may be in talks to change his plea later.
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