Ex-Mexican prosecutor sentenced to 20 years in US drug case

A former state attorney general from Mexico was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison in a U.S. drug-trafficking case accusing him of using wiretaps and other law enforcement tools to protect the turf of a violent drug cartel.Edgar Veytia told a judge in federal court in Brooklyn that he made a "mistake" by taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from the cartel while he was chief law enforcement officer in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit.Veytia - a dual U.S.-Mexico citizen who h