Mexican Drug Suspect Accuses Officials of Corruption Edgar Valdez Villareal, who the authorities contend is an American-born drug kingpin known as "El Barbie," accused top government officials, including the head of the public security department, of taking bribes from him. Mr. Villareal leveled the charges from jail, where he is awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges, in a letter published Wednesday in Reforma, a leading newspaper, and also delivered to several news organizations by his lawyer. The officials, he wrote, "are part of the criminal structure of this country." A government spokesman, in a statement, called Mr. Villareal's letter an effort to discredit the federal police and blackmail the authorities into giving him better prison conditions. He was captured in August 2010.