Federal investigators say a veteran agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration took cash to push fraudulent visa applications through the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic. According to a federal affidavit unsealed Wednesday, agent Meliton Cordero worked with a local music promoter who claimed he could shorten the long visa wait for a $10,000 fee. Undercover sources helped investigators document payments and messages that linked Cordero to the scheme. Cordero’s arrest last week in Washington as part of the ongoing investigation prompted the Trump administration to abruptly shutter the DEA’s office in the Caribbean nation over what it said was a “disgusting and disgraceful violation of public trust."
