>While the Justice Department had publicly celebrated its charges against some MS-13 leaders as “swift American justice,” she said, it was also throwing out the case against Mr. Arévalo.
“The government appears to be making inconsistent representations,” she wrote, “and the public has a right to know about this motion before its resolution.”
>While officials from both countries have claimed that the gang leaders were being sent back to face justice in El Salvador, the Trump administration has never acknowledged another reason that Mr. Bukele might want them back: **U.S. federal prosecutors have, over several years, amassed substantial evidence of a corrupt pact between the Salvadoran government and some high-ranking leaders in MS-13, an investigation by The New York Times last month found.**
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>While the Justice Department had publicly celebrated its charges against some MS-13 leaders as “swift American justice,” she said, it was also throwing out the case against Mr. Arévalo.
“The government appears to be making inconsistent representations,” she wrote, “and the public has a right to know about this motion before its resolution.”
>While officials from both countries have claimed that the gang leaders were being sent back to face justice in El Salvador, the Trump administration has never acknowledged another reason that Mr. Bukele might want them back: **U.S. federal prosecutors have, over several years, amassed substantial evidence of a corrupt pact between the Salvadoran government and some high-ranking leaders in MS-13, an investigation by The New York Times last month found.**