A music promoter who agreed to launder $100,000 that he believed were drug proceeds was sentenced in San Diego federal court Monday to 18 months in prison.

Hugo Lever pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for accepting cash from a person he believed was a drug trafficker, but was actually an undercover federal agent, according to prosecutors.

A criminal complaint filed last year states a confidential informant told law enforcement officials that Lever was seeking investors to fund a music festival in Ensenada and had been “laundering drug proceeds domestically and internationally using concert and event promotion companies.”

Lever, described in the complaint as the chief executive officer of Calexico-based DA Music Entertainment, met with the undercover agent in May of

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