Milei Ally Resigns after Bribery Allegations. 

Earlier this week, a close ally of Argentine President Javier Milei resigned due to bribery allegations. Jose Luis Espert, a member of Argentina’s lower house of government, known as the Chamber of Deputies, is alleged to have close ties to Argentine businessman Frederico Andres Machado, better known as Fred.  Espert may have accepted a two-hundred-thousand-dollar bribe from Machado related to the upcoming Argentine congressional election, according to a report from a website called the Court House News detailing how it is caught up in a sprawling case involving cocaine being smuggled on board airplanes owned by clients who have close links to various South American drug cartels. On top of that, he is also alleged to have been involved in a $550 million Ponzi scheme that involved the sale of up to 100 fake airplanes. Espert claims he thought the money was coming from Machado’s Guatemalan mining company, which, considering Machado’s other business “ventures,” I find hard to believe.