Apr. 24, 2023
DEL Records employee said he was fired for helping DEA
The complaint, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, describes an office environment in which the company’s owner emulated the lifestyle romanticized in the narcocorridos — drug ballads — of the record label’s artists.
A former employee of DEL Records says he was fired because he cooperated with a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation of the record label’s alleged money laundering activities and payola.
The complaint, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, describes an office environment in which the company’s owner, Jose Angel del Villar, emulated the lifestyle romanticized in the narcocorridos — drug ballads — of the record label’s arti...
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