Date: 11th September 2000

Customs Officer Confesses He Sent Forged Memo To 60 Minutes.


Former U.S. Customs officer Michael Horner has pleaded guilty to charges of forging a memo that was used during a 60 Minutes report in 1997, the New York Times reported today (Monday).

The memo, which appeared to be written by Rudy M. Camacho, director of the Customs Management Center in San Diego, instructed customs agents to give preferential treatment to a trucking company that purportedly was affiliated with Mexican drug dealers.

Source: Studio Briefing