Enrique Peña Nieto's campaign was his most complicated and expensive job
For $600,000, Sepúlveda manipulated the conversation surrounding Enrique Peña Nieto on social media. He also installed malware on Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s and Josefina Vázquez Mota’s offices.
He scored the job because despite EPN’s lead, his supporters wanted security. Sepúlveda’s hacking revealed that one of AMLO’s consultants possibly broke Mexican laws after asking businessmen for $6 million for the campaign.
But Sepúlveda didn’t just focus on EPN’s direct competitors. He also helped make the PRI party stronger by taking down members of other parties. In the race for the governor of Jalisco, EPN’s fellow Priísta Aristóteles Sandoval’s path became easier after Sepúlveda went after Enrique Alfaro Ramírez.
“On election night, he had computers call tens of thousands of voters with prerecorded phone messages at 3 a.m. in the critical swing state of Jalisco,” Bloomberg reported. “The calls appeared to come from the campaign of popular left-wing gubernatorial candidate Enrique Alfaro Ramírez. That angered voters–that was the point–and Alfaro lost by a slim margin.”
A PRI spokesman denies Rendón worked on EPN or any other Priísta campaign, even though Rendón said he works with the party to this day.