Associated Press
Aug. 11, 2009, 12:15PM


SAN ANTONIO — U.S. officials handed $2.4 million in proceeds from stolen oil products to Mexican authorities as part of a case against a Houston importer.

Assistant Homeland Security Secretary John Morton attended an event today with Mexico's tax administrator, Alfredo Gutierrez Mena, in San Antonio to mark the occasion.

Houston-based Trammo Petroleum made the payment after its president admitted to buying and reselling products stolen from the Mexican oil monopoly Pemex earlier this year. Trammo paid the restitution given to Mexican authorities.


We should have kept ALL the money and sent the mejican govt. a receipt for some of their illegals here.