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HOW YARRINGTON BECAME GOVERNOR: RAKING IN DOUGH FROM THE DRUGLORDS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Few people believed that the former governor of Tamaulipas could have amassed as much money as U.S. and Mexican authorities have charged in several indictments here and in investigation documents in Mexico.<br />But diverse media accounts published here and in Mexico lay out the paper trail of illegal enrichment, beginning with Tomas Yarrington's campaign for governor in 1998 and continuing during his six-year term in office.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Reforma</em>, the groundbreaking news magazine and <em>El Norte</em>, Monterrey's leading newspaper, have traced the Yarrington trail through a series of reports detailing the use of front men to conceal his ill-gotten gains. At least thre confidentail informants have told U.S. and Mexican authorities they were present when Yarrington's representatives leaned on major narcotics traffickers, including leader of the Gulf Cartel, to shake them down to finance his run for public office. At one time, Yarrington not only was governor of the state of Tamaulipas, but also made a run for the PRI's nomination for the Mexican presidency.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4VaMUP7Kr4l0h5tsFMC5hfUgvXNyNnO4kreRysOaWx2uuCQtq_BwhrL6m99XwZ5SGp49xfi7gXQbOqBOTkMmenZ39UYuRuBpz6NDW1jkpdOMNVMD6xa6FYlS7qj3DJ2q0NvJ7okv0u2U/s1600/toms-yarrington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" kda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4VaMUP7Kr4l0h5tsFMC5hfUgvXNyNnO4kreRysOaWx2uuCQtq_BwhrL6m99XwZ5SGp49xfi7gXQbOqBOTkMmenZ39UYuRuBpz6NDW1jkpdOMNVMD6xa6FYlS7qj3DJ2q0NvJ7okv0u2U/s320/toms-yarrington.jpg" width="320" /></a>A confidential informant named "Oscar" told the Mexican PGR in 2009 that he was present when Jesus Vega Sanchez, secretary and later president of the Tamaulipas PRI, met with Juan Jose Salinas "El Bimbo," in Reynosa to request funds for Yarrington's campaign. "El Bimbo" was the former commander of the state police and intermediary with Gulf Cartel boss Osiel Cardenas.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"Vega told 'El Bimbo' that it didn't matter where the money cames from or what kind of debts he had to repay, we are in dire need of the funds," recalls the informant. When "El Bimbo" inquired whether Yarrington was aware of the money's origin, the informant said that Vega answered that he shouldn't worry because "Tomas is willing and ready to comply with whatever is necessary. That's why sent me, his most trusted surrogate, to perform this duty."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"El Bimbo" had assumed his position as commander of the state police in Reynosa in February 1998. "Oscar" was his chief assistant.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He told the DEA and the Mexican counterparts the PGR that several criminal organizations bribed state and federal police to operate on the border.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">For example, "Oscar" said eh also collected from Esteban Rodriguez Olivera, boss of the "Gueros" of Tecalitlan, Jaliso, one of the most important bosses of the Sinaloa Cartel. Rodriguez Olivera was later captured in 2008 and extradited to New York in 2008.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">'El Bimbo," besides shaking down the Juarez Cartel, alos spoke with the Carrillo Fuentes gang of Coahuila, allies of drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva. He also is said to have contacted the various state and federal police entities to procure funds for Yarrington.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Between them, "Oscar" said thay collected $1 million to give Yarrington in the third week of June 1998 for his run at state governor. "Oscar" and Juan Carlos Gonzalez Sancahez, cousin of drug capo Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, "El Coss," gave the portfolio with the money to Vega Sanchez while Yarington watched at the conclusion of a political event in Reynosa and both drove away in a red Suburban, the PGR report states.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"El Bimbo" also collected from police commanders in Nuevo Laredo, Miguel Aleman, Camargo, Diaz Ordaz, Matamoros, and Rio Bravo. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In all, three portfolios containing $2 million were delivered to Vega Sanchez. Later, there were four other deliveries of between $400,000 to $800,000 each and three more others of between $300,00 to $500,000.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Initially, Osiel Guillen Cardenas, leader of the Gulf Cartel, did not participate. He was being held in custody by the military and held in house arrest in Mexico City. After his escape, he went to Reynosa, where "El Bimbo" met with him. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Cardenas first gave "Oscar" $500,000 which he turned over to Vega Sanchez in the parking lot of the El Residential Hotel in Matamoros. Later, in October 1998, after Yarrington won the election, he delivered another $500,000.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Once governor, Yarrington appointed the commanders of the various cities and offered protection to the Gulf Cartel. In mid-March 1999, Vega Sanchez died of a cerebral hemorrage. The payments were then made to Jorge Max Castillo, the state's subcommander. Between June and December 1999, "Oscar" said that Gulf Cartel bosses made three payments to Yarrington through Max Castillo, each one of between $300,00 and $500,000, through intermediary Pascual Fuente, another high-ranking state police commander.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"El Bimbo" was captured in April 2008 by the Mexican military and is serving a sentence at the Federal Penitentiary del Altiplano. Yarrington fled to the United Sates and is named in warrants oprdering his presence to answer to the charges. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6976123386283602565?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-yarrington-became-governor-raking.html
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NO QUESTION VOTING ABUSE WAS COMMITTED BY HERNANDEZ, HENCHMEN
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>"And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard<br />It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"..."</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Bob Dylan</div></div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Even as Erin Hernandez Garcia, the declared the winner of the July 31 JP 2-2 runoff race, and her father Pct. 2 commissioner Ernie Hernandez, label her opponent's claims of massive voter fraud during the elections as "sour grapes, and "ridiculous," a majority of county residents now know otherwise.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Whether it was the published reports of their drivers and assistants (politiqueros) herding mentally-disabled and elderly voters in a fleet of rental vans, the manipulation of the mail-in votes â€" and on occasions voting for their charges as they were held as unwilling captives in the vehicles â€" it all points to a brazen disregard for the democratic process and the right to vote for the candidate of your choice.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This right, one of the foundations of a free society, was deliberately violated on a grand scale this July 31 and in the mail-in and walk-in early voting by the partisans of the Hernandez clan. To them, the niceties of a free democratic process is nothing more than words. To them, winning means everything and they know that once the rest of the governmental entities supposed to deter this type of voter abuse turn a blind eye to the blatant abuse before their noses, the system will continue on its corrupt course.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yjg1wBt2mlcBtX4BIb8sIppayH9Ihs7WKyzVxel6sfdQJcyAnKTzMhHxlqXAkml5ZDlEA_seIx1qpnyrzOa05vnR6Jp_OELUY8b4xvG5D_TI28HkHqtDjJ-Y0q_JBRIqhF32EOyoDxo/s1600/ernie2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" kda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yjg1wBt2mlcBtX4BIb8sIppayH9Ihs7WKyzVxel6sfdQJcyAnKTzMhHxlqXAkml5ZDlEA_seIx1qpnyrzOa05vnR6Jp_OELUY8b4xvG5D_TI28HkHqtDjJ-Y0q_JBRIqhF32EOyoDxo/s400/ernie2.png" width="400" /></a>Usually, Hernandez (Ernie Norma and Erin) try to keep it under the radar, but this time, with daughter Number One trailing by 500 votes after the May 29 election, they grew desperate and pulled all the stops. No more feigning that you were "assisting" elderly voters, that you were offering them rides to vote because they had no way to get to the polls, no more bringing in nice lunches to their noon meals and soliciting their vote.</div></div>Desperate times called for desperate measures.<br />The kidnapping of elderly voters from adult day-care facilities and retirement complexes and the transforming of vans into politicized campaign voting booths to coerce them to vote for their ticket, the altering their ballots, the outright lies that their opponent could not be trusted because she was a member of "<em>el cartel</em>," was bipolar or an alcoholic, and the manipulation of the system to achieve their goals happened right before the eyes of the elections department officials, its director Roger Ortiz included.<br />Now, as the voter abuse case wends its way through the courts, get ready to see yet more tactics of delay and evasion used in the first voter abuse trial when Ruben Peña brought Ernie Hernandez to court and came within 7 votes of the 49-vote difference to overturn that election before a judge from Hidalgo County put an abrupt halt on the process.<br />You remember.<br />The first time in May 10, 2010 Hernandez was declared the winner over Peña, who then sued and was "able to prove fraud, but due to Hernandez's abuse of the discovery process, was unable to prove a sufficient number of illegal votes to overturn the election.<br />"Hernandez and his wife (Norma), who is also a politiquera, avoided being served with subpoenas and did not attend the trial. The politiqueras also avoided service and absconded rather than appearing at trial. Numerous persons who supposedly voted by mail refused to appear at trial after being served...<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Erin Hernandez represented her father, (Ernie) Hernandez, in this election contest, states the lawsuit filed by Erin's opponent Yolanda Begum.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Begum, through her attorney Michael R. Cowen, said that the "Hernandez family (Ernie, his wife Norma, and Erin and her siblings), aided by their network of politiqueras, have stolen two consecutive Democratic primary elections in Cameron County." </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsW1LFgwlOgsd2ogWNZm5a-HubQtCBYu4tPzDK3YRR72J4FLfousK41AOtdq6u5HgJ-Bk6DKMEMA2JlybfzEavR3ybj7xQ0q9F3B2cwoCG4As4faJrNNir69G8bhPOppo1jzLxc1qp0O8/s1600/politiquero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" kda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsW1LFgwlOgsd2ogWNZm5a-HubQtCBYu4tPzDK3YRR72J4FLfousK41AOtdq6u5HgJ-Bk6DKMEMA2JlybfzEavR3ybj7xQ0q9F3B2cwoCG4As4faJrNNir69G8bhPOppo1jzLxc1qp0O8/s400/politiquero.jpg" width="400" /></a>And who was seen outside the courtroom telling witnesses and elderly voters who were subpoenaed to testify in the trial that they could leave and didn't have to stick around? Longtime Hernandez ally and now the new chairman of the Cameron County Democratic Party Sylvia Perez-Garza. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">You remember her siren song when she ran for the position, don't you? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">She said: "Change does not happen over night it only happens when we get involved, and when we work together to better our community and those that need help the most. I want to work to bring together a more unified party that allows us all to have a voice."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The disenfranchising of the poor and elderly with promises of a chicken plate for their vote that was never delivered, the nullifying of unfriendly votes by filling in the both ovals when the voters didn't pick their candidate, and the unsolicited offers to assist people to apply for mail-in ballots by politiqueras going house to house and the deceiving of people saying they were supporting their opponent in order to get their hands on the ballot is not the type of actions that "allows all of us to have a voice."</div>Instead, those actions deprive all of us of a meaningful exercise of the most fundamental right in the constitution: the right to elect the people we want to represent us. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Feel the raindrops yet?</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2674658583270573753?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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