Coahuila businessman and media entrepreneur Rolando Gonzalez Treviño entered a not guilty plea in reference to money laundering charges facing him of working with the Mexican government to open a series of media outlets with money obtained from members of a former governor of the state of Coahuila.

Gonzalez was arrested on Halloween weekend when arriving in Las Vegas and was taken before a magistrate judge there before being transferred at an undisclosed date to San Antonio to appear before US Magistrate Judge John W. Primomo.

In court Tuesday, not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to transfer stolen securities from Mexico to the United States and conspiracy to commit money laundering.  The proceedings took somewhere between five to ten minutes where Judge Primomo advised him of the charges before him, but failed to read the entire indictment.

He and his attorneys Alfonso Cabañas and Brandon Hudson could have waived the arraignment, but the hearing proceeded quickly and the defendant was lead out of the court room exiting the US Federal Court Building.  Gonzalez remains in custody and is pending a date in US Federal Court.

There are at least six others involved in this indictment, six individuals who are yet to be named and according to the defendant's attorneys, they have not even been made aware of.

González-Treviño owns Canal 24 in Eagle Pass.  He is also president of the media consortium Núcleo Radio Televisión de Monclova in Coahuila, also known as NRT.