be connected to three residences in California. One of these, where she spent most of her time before her arrest, was a $4.7 million house in Coronado Cays with a private dock, a boat, and Jet Ski. Gordillo was arrested on corruption charges by the Mexican authorities on 26 February 2013 after her private jet in which she had travelled from California landed at the Toluca airport near the capital. She was arrested for allegedly embezzling 2 billion pesos (US$156,816,000 or €119,242,600) from the Mexican National Educational Workers Union (SNTE), according to Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam. She also allegedly wired large sums of money to Swiss bank accounts, while other funds were used for plastic surgeries or personal luxuries. Among other questionable expenditures, according to Karam, were the maintenance and rental expenses of a hangar and aircraft. Prosecutors argue she would not have been able to make several purchases on her salary. (31,398 pesos or US$2,459 per month.) She has been charged with embezzlement and organized crime. To head her criminal defense, Gordillo hired prominent penal lawyer Marco Antonio del Toro Carazo who is also defending labor leader Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. Liberation Gordillo was liberated after a federal judge from the Primer Tribunal Unitario dismissed the trial on the grounds of not being able to prove Gordillo's responsibility for embezzlement. See also Education in Mexico References Further reading Cano, Arturo, and Alberto Aguirre. Doña Perpetua: el poder y la opulencia de Elba Esther Gordillo. Debolsillo, 2013. Gimate-Welsh, Adrián S. "La representación de la caricatura política: la pugna Madrazo-Gordillo en el PRI." Letra. Imagen. Sonido: Ciudad Mediatizada 6 (2011): 57-70. Martínez, José. La maestra: vida y hechos de Elba Esther Gordillo. Oceano, 2003. Ornelas, Carlos. Educación, colonización y rebeldía: la herencia del pacto Calderón-Gordillo. Siglo XXI, 2012. External links Terra: Elba Esther Gordillo Gordillo timeline (El Universal) Gordillo article in The Economist (The Economist) Elba Esther trending topic at Noticiales 1945 births Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Living people New Alliance Party (Mexico) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Mexican trade unionists Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Politicians from Chiapas Prisoners and detainees of Mexico Mexican politicians convicted of crimes Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) People from Comitán Women legislative speakers 20th-century Mexican politicians 20th-century Mexican women