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Monday, May 14, 2012

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CHEEZMEH DROPS THE PRETENSE: WITH ERIN HERNANDEZ AND MASSO ALL ALONG DUPING THE GULLIBLE
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<div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><div>With the start of early voting, the ringleaders at Cheezemh are are discarding the pretense that they have been honest brokers and abandoned the charade that their forums or for-a-slight-fee "debates" were anything but a stage to prop up their candidates and set up the others who attended unaware that there was a pr-set agenda to these meets.</div><div>Erasmo Castro, who goes by the name (aka) of head Cheez, lamented the fact that the group <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBcswGoag019rw5cYgNl32TicFmg01_0wFM4_eLZXkDHX4cUVp9HSOi84oQJJRtf4loB7aG4sEx9ShSedngIxRQU7YwRzFoH8wd0-EvZiIXgaQ0LpDgf8Lm4vUu8DpyCIuwAmBwxkj-7k/s1600/erin+pretense.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742423327156916690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBcswGoag019rw5cYgNl32TicFmg01_0wFM4_eLZXkDHX4cUVp9HSOi84oQJJRtf4loB7aG4sEx9ShSedngIxRQU7YwRzFoH8wd0-EvZiIXgaQ0LpDgf8Lm4vUu8DpyCIuwAmBwxkj-7k/s400/erin+pretense.jpg" /></a>(or whatever is left of his followers) could not continue to focus on the issues and instead had to choose and endorse particular candidates for public office.</div><div>He predicted that his courageous stand would be ridiculed by bloggers and commenters on the blogs.</div><div>"I am sure the bloggers and Zekeee are going to have a field day with this post, but if you know me at all you know that the Cheez is not moved by what idiots post on their blogs or what worst idiots post anonymously there. I hereby ask that we unite and support not only Erin Hernandez Garcia for Justice of the Peace, but also to support Carlos Masso as the Democratic candidate for District Attorney of Cameron County."</div><div>Well, for once he was right.</div><div>Those of us who have been raised here and have been involved in local politics have seen interest groups for pay like Cheezmeh come and go. They stay until the pickings are no longer ripe and disappear like a flash in the pan.</div><div>Erasmo says that he will gladly take claim for the group's "triumphs" in electing the likes of city commissioner Jessica Tetrau-Kalifa and John Villarreal. Are you sure you want to take credit for electing a commissioner who tarnished the people's office by getting involved in at least five case of domestic violence, only to escape prosecution when Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos refused to prosecute? Well, we know how that office has worked, don't we?</div><div>And while we're at it, another feather that Erasmo is claiming for his cap is that of electing Villarreal. Well, Johnny boy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RSZ06Lqin0L7OSpUiQR3PwY4ZGP_sWK2OYDzdEFg-nQoO7Ebj8sEK7f_qlFSBl823dCMUJeiR960N2ouw0PIXoJMHLjn1ME8SCOtyA6t9gTSWaeK7iRqEkUzdJxYKLE4PXVqOT_FGx4/s1600/masso.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742433942978225826" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RSZ06Lqin0L7OSpUiQR3PwY4ZGP_sWK2OYDzdEFg-nQoO7Ebj8sEK7f_qlFSBl823dCMUJeiR960N2ouw0PIXoJMHLjn1ME8SCOtyA6t9gTSWaeK7iRqEkUzdJxYKLE4PXVqOT_FGx4/s320/masso.jpg" /></a> showed his true colors as a patriot and defender of American freedoms when he insisted that the city administration remove the Citizens Against Voter Abuse (CAVA) booth from the EarthFest celebrations.</div><div>Apparently, while in the shadows of the federal courthouse where the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights are defended, Villarreal disdainfully deprived the group of its First Amendment rights with one arrogant swoop.</div><div>Even her American flag was removed at his insistence. How dare American citizens display the flag while fighting against the abuse of the right to have fair elections? What will they want next, freedom of religion?</div><div>And these are the candidates that Cheezmeh and the Head Cheez want to take credit for foisting upon our citizenry?</div><div>What are we to think of their support for Erin Hernandez Garcia and Carlos Masso?</div><div>Come off it. There is not patriotism, community grass roots sentiment or any groundswell for these endorsements. It's money and self-interest, pure and simple.</div><div>When Masso gave them money, they turned on Luis Saenz with a vengeance, running ads unearthed from 17 years ago against him. And Cheezmeh has always been in the pocket (and taking from it) of the Hernandez clan.</div><div>So when the group holds "forums" and "debates" to lure the gullible, there has always been a hidden agenda working behind the scenes to conceal the real intentions of the leaders of this group from the unsuspecting public.</div><div>So call whoever is not lured by your siren song "idiots."And you can say that (as you did about Mary Helen CAVA), that she's full of "sh_t," or whatever other sobriquets they use in Austin, or East Texas.</div><div>But for someone like Castro, who has been convicted of felony theft once, and then not once, but twice, convicted of theft by check and has had poor Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants charge in federal court that he and some of his relatives (sister Linda, for example) took their money under false pretenses and are operating a continuing criminal enterprise (RICO) slur the name of a local candidate like Saenz who was never been charged or convicted of anything, is absurd.</div><div>In crititicizing Saenz's candidacy, Erasmo â€" Mr. Right â€" said Saenz was the "wrong" candidate.</div><div>Then, in their campaign against Begum â€" an opponent of their favorite Erin Hernandez â€"she is ridiculed for having an accent and her having received her education in Mexico. Do you people know where you are? Are you aware that the majority of us living here have friends or relatives in Mexico who do not speak perfect English and who have received their education in Mexico before they came here?</div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; ">If you want to emphasize the fact that Erin is an attorney, well, she should know better than to be a treasurer for a candidate for political office (Villarreal) when holding a judicial position (magistrate in Primera). It's not only lends her office to a political candidate, but also compromises the integrity of the office.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; ">And remember that it was Erin, after all, that defended the Herandez's harvesting of politiquera votes when Ruben PeÃ±a dragged them into court. Oh, we get it now! Could it be that Villarreal, a Hernandez supporter, took offense that Mary Helen might be talking about Erin and his pals Ernie and Norma?<br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">And it was Erin who has maintained the legal farce that her dad's vending machine contract with the county is legit because, you see, he doesn't own the company. Erin became the owner on the county contract when he became commissioner, and now that she is a candidate for JP, her mother Norma suddenly became the legal owner.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; ">It's legal, we guess. But does that make it right? Is that the legal experience we deserve?</span></div><div>Sorry Erasmo, but it is you and your followers who are all "wrong."</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6845551230060750162?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/cheezmeh-drops-pretense-with-erin.html

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ERIN MAKES FRIENDS WITH BEGUM'S CONTENTIOUS LONG LOST WOULD-BE IN-LAW
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />The fray for the Democratic nomination for Justice of the Peace 2-2 has taken a nasty turn toward the sleazy.<br />Prominent among tose running is local artist and businesswoman Yolanda Begu. One of her opponents in none other than the daughter of Pct. 2 commissioner Ernie Hernandez, who has gained notoriety for drawing large numbers of mail-in votes, often harvested from elderly voters who turn over their ballots to his wife Norma and other Hernandez operatives.<br />Now, Jim Barton, of <a href="http://www.meanmisterbrownsvilleblogspot/">http://www.meanmisterbrownsvilleblogspot/</a> is telling us that the Hernandezs have another ally in the former mate (not wife) of the adopted son of Mike Begum, both men now deceased.<br />That woman is Josephina Canales Auten, whose Facebook alias is Scarlett O'Ha<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Sa-4fGzAWWjQaZL43P_6_yZO8AR3ob8qdc_BVZCiwMcVFcIwSfzBLbE23Sp8UJpIupDlEeOPbYI54HuzqvQLEMz2VxZLJX_KqHhvxQA_tAVD-tavwL6XYPrEhZzh2vqpCRSQYHGiZBA/s1600/Erin+and+Scarlett.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 327px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742119193399038210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Sa-4fGzAWWjQaZL43P_6_yZO8AR3ob8qdc_BVZCiwMcVFcIwSfzBLbE23Sp8UJpIupDlEeOPbYI54HuzqvQLEMz2VxZLJX_KqHhvxQA_tAVD-tavwL6XYPrEhZzh2vqpCRSQYHGiZBA/s400/Erin+and+Scarlett.jpg" /></a>ra.<br />Although reportedly residing in Houston, she has been seen attending events promoting Erin Herandez's candidacy against Begum.<br />Begum supporters say that after Yolanda declared her candidacy for JP, Canales resurfaced and allegedly sought to extort money from the Begums, threatening to say nasty things about them otherwise. On several posting on her page, she urged the candidate to meet with her, offering to meet and discuss the welfare of her grandchildren.<br />However, neither Begum nor her family took the bait and instead are saying that they are in the process of seeking legal action against the woman.<br />Alex Begum, Yolanda's son and an attorney, stated in a email to <em>Rrun-Rrun</em> stated that: "She claims to have gone to Harvard on her Facebook, although she never attended this college and does not have a college degree. This lady has a long and sordid history.<br />Recently, she attempted to extort my mother by sending her a Facebook message. She said that if my mother did not pay her, she would bad mouth her on the Internet. Of course, my mother refused to pay her one single penny!<br />We are in the process of reporting her actions to the authorities and looking at additional legal options."<br />There is a lawsuit filed in a Harris County court where a judge issued a restraining order against her communicating with a married man who claims he had affair with her and she was not threatening to email compromising pictures and videos to his family and business associates if he did not pay her money.<br />A copy of that case filed late last year is titled Hart Eugene Schleicher vs. Josephina Canales Auten, Cause No. 2011-74258, 165th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas.<br />Do the Hernandez know the history of their latest convert, or do they even care?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7570769080593010645?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/erin-makes-friends-with-begums.html

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CARMEN ROAD SCREW-UP REVEALS EXTENT OF HERNANDEZ PATRONAGE MACHINE TENDRILS
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSQzXARgD-LZxPGttWjKY__W2_yvBx1kZ319aP1ND91_eO3uC0luPSVb5swSx0BVgZXTGRrVh8-SpcoRf41R9FRK6Q1gAstPwl9dJ7v1rIBLHYtjTdiRgfUhrLShU082iXdNUW6wyhbE4/s1600/ernie.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSQzXARgD-LZxPGttWjKY__W2_yvBx1kZ319aP1ND91_eO3uC0luPSVb5swSx0BVgZXTGRrVh8-SpcoRf41R9FRK6Q1gAstPwl9dJ7v1rIBLHYtjTdiRgfUhrLShU082iXdNUW6wyhbE4/s400/ernie.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742199874749482178" border="0" /></a>By <strong>Juan Montoya<br /><br /></strong>Not too may people noted the issue of the reworking of El Carmen Road next to Veterans Memorial High School.<br />But if you had you would have gotten an indication of what results when political patronage under commissioner Ernie Hernandez takes the lead over public service, especially when it's the taxpayers' money being wasted.<br />With his daughter a candidate for Justice of the Peace 2-2, it is instructive to see what the results are when one person tries to extend his influence on the public's nickle.<br />Public Works Director Luis Ara, a Hernandez favorite, labored mightily to explain to county commissioners why he was pouring thousands of dollars on the road when less than a year ago in April 2011 the county had finished paving the road. Well, it wasn't exactly paving, but more of a rural road upgrade using Texas Department of Transportation "millings," the name given to the asphalt when the department scarifies existing highways.<br />At one time, the TDOT used to give the millings away, but now it sells them to the county for $10 a ton, still a good deal.<br />Unable to give a good explanation of why the road project had failed miserably, Ara blamed the quality of the TDOT millings. In other words, the material was no good. Perhaps someone should alert the TDOT managers that they are selling shoddy material. Funny how it worked fine before.<br />Ara brought in supervisor Santana Vallejo to oversee the work. To seasoned Public Works employees, that alone caused red flags to go up. Something was bound to go wrong. And, now that the county has to go back and correct the mess, their suspicions were proved right.<br />You remember Vallejo, he used to to be streets supervisor with the City of Brownsville until management sniffed out something wrong with their neighborhood sidewalk program. Apparently, some of the cement being delivered to the program somehow found its way out of the city and ended up being used by individuals who then sold it to homeowners for driveways and sidewalks.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7P8IyKdhlZlEGaJkhXGaEz4OSU-15UmY3djzrRRHAnv-28dl-Q7A2SrLXtVnKpTOhrcnaIOt9SPj4zAyBBI-EMTfG9mxNuAExdKRGgfhN6AS9a5qCDxYKDtJ825zmM8mOVU38jU_kbg/s1600/erin+h_+garcia.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742112572988335650" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7P8IyKdhlZlEGaJkhXGaEz4OSU-15UmY3djzrRRHAnv-28dl-Q7A2SrLXtVnKpTOhrcnaIOt9SPj4zAyBBI-EMTfG9mxNuAExdKRGgfhN6AS9a5qCDxYKDtJ825zmM8mOVU38jU_kbg/s400/erin+h_+garcia.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />And just last year, a homeowner's complaint in rural Olmito filed with the Cameron County's Sheriff Department charged that Vallejo and his compadre Rosendo Rodriguez had sold them driveway pipes they were replacing as they performed ditchwork on the roads and keeping the money for themselves.<br />Sheriff Dept. officials said that the complaint against the two were dismissed on a "technicality," but insiders say that aggressive defense attorneys for the men scared them into withdrawing their charges telling them they were just as guilty as their clients because they knew the pipes were not legitimately acquired.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZ8GlNSOopdDLKtFEbZOy5hftCUfME-ZvwsY5xyYf89xAK1NMKyn_BsQdWwLz88LHUTkPEL4tApOKDtjlgwjAGFTb3zUowHF3wkWZFI7NjVKRxiNwMpHnhjEUa6cXP351TpELc0E0Gy4/s1600/ratas.gif"></a>With the charges withdrawn, the men returned to their positions free and cleared.<br />And it just so happens that Rosendo's brother, Ricardo, is also working for the county in the colonia grants section and mostly in Cameron Park. Ara put that crew under the supervision of inexperienced supervisor and one of his (Ara's) favorites, foreman Ruben Gonzalez, who showed immediately upon arrival at the project that he didn't know his keister from a bar ditch.<br />He had workers climb into deep trenches without the OSHA-mandated protection for workers in sloping ditches. OSHA mandates that entities doing the work may use a trench box or shield that is either designed or approved by a registered professional engineer or is based on tabulated data prepared or approved by a registered professional engineer. Well, our Mr. Gonzalez knew nothing of this and had the workers climb into the trenches without the required protection. One, Javier Mendoza (Nuco), had the misfortune of suffering the predicable: the trench collapsed and trapped him under tons of dirt. He suffered serious injuries including damage to his internal organs and has now been declared disabled and can no longer work. As an afterthought, Ara suspended his appointee as foreman Gonzalez and now the county has been forced to pay for all the injured worker's medical and disability payments.<br />Working under the colonia improvement fund, the workers poured in thousands of dollars of caliche on Nogal Road where Aroldo Cadriel's shooting range is located. Just after Hernadez became former Pct. 2 commissioner's assistant following the disgrace of Carlos Cisneros, he oversaw the work on that road. Workers used thousands of dollars of road material and labor on the road that leads to the range, but the rest of the road south of the range is void of houses.<br />Aroldo, as we well know, is Ernie's wife Norman's cousin. He has been charged with murdering a young woman with whom he had a romantic relationship and dumping her body is a desolate rural area.<br />Her brother Robert Cadriel, a convicted felon, became embroiled in a controversy when a county employee was suspected of taking his civil service exam so he could work for the county as a security guard at Veteran's Memorial Bridge. Acting Human Resources director Robert Lopez resigned immediately after the story became public, as did Cadriel. That case is still being investigated by the county's District Attorney Armanado Villalobos, who himself has been indicted for racketeering and corruption in a case related to the Abel Limas scandal.<br />After Vallejo left the city, he ended up in the Cameron County Public Works department under Ara, who is under Pete Sepulveda, county administrator. But the incestuous nature of the Ara-Vallejo-Hernandez relationship doesn't end there. Ara's sister, Lavinia Ralston Long, who used to work at Fiesta graphics, Ernie's company, is now the receptionist for Hernandez's Precinct 2 office.<br />And remember Gilbert Galvan, the county's hapless safety officer who wrecked the county SUV when he failed to negotiate the curve at the intersection of FM 803 and Henderson Road? Well, apprently just after the truck was repaired, accident-prone Galvan had it hit by another car and the vehicle sustained some damage. Back to the repair garage!<br />Hi sister, Claudia Garza, by the way, works as receptionist at the county warehouse on 14th Street in Brownsville.<br />And Vallejos' wife, Linda C. Vallejo, also works for the county auditor's office.<br />His brother was also found a spot on the Cameron Park colonia work crew.<br />It is apparent that the colonia fund crews and county jobs have become the destination of Hernandez-Ara-Vallejo patronage ring with the predictable results. So what are a few thousands dollars in wasted road materials?<br />Remember when Ernie's niece â€" Magistrate Patricia Edlestein â€" gave his daughter-in-law Daisy de la Fuente, a former receptionist with the Cameron County Sheriff's Department, a "get out of jail" card after she was arrested after being engaged in a drunken brawl in northern rural Los Fresnos.<br />De la Fuente, married to Evan Hernandez, Ernie' son, was said to have been clocked traveling more than 100 miles per hour on Highway 100 at <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0NGI9MTLIZ39m3PqTmxOYZRN_NiU1MW-AstMTJKmMkBqymMkM6j5CAOALIV1pGeh2cmWpMdaXObarIac2Qpt7g3xniNd9-DwWumi0y4L274riz78q_aCB0VY5OmFUxBsxyjHO_qmuxDA/s1600/daisy.jpg"></a>approximately 3 a.m. then.<br />Los Fresnos police chased her and she is reported to have ditched her car and taken off on foot through the bush to elude them,<br />She then called her friends at the sheriff's department to ask them for a ride. Police found her walking on the side of the road. However, she neglected to tell them that she had left her car to avoid getting arrested by the Los Fresnos PD.<br />Unfortunately for Daisy, she forgot that she had left her purse and ID in the car and when the Los Fresnos cops went though it, they found out her real identity.<br />Even with Ernie's pleading, Sheriff Omar Lucio decided he had had enough embarrassment from one of his employees and declined to keep her on board.<br />Now, as we get ready to elects a Justice of the Peace, what can we really expect from Ernie's daughter Erin Hernandez Garcia but more of the same?<br />Voters should send a clear message that the tendrils of the Hernandez empire building can't bellowed to continue.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8363412973526409913?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

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ERIN MAKES FRIENDS WITH BEGUM'S CONTENTIOUS LONG LOST IN-LAW
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />The fray for the Democratic nomination for Justice of the Peace 2-2 has taken a nasty turn toward the sleazy.<br />Prominent among tose running is local artist and businesswoman Yolanda Begu. One of her opponents in none other than the daughter of Pct. 2 commissioner Ernie Herandez, who has gained notoriety for drawing large numbers of mail-in votes, often harvested from elderly voters who turn over their ballots to his wife Norma and other Hernandez operatives.<br />Now, Jim Barton, of <a href="http://www.meanmisterbrownsvilleblogspot/">http://www.meanmisterbrownsvilleblogspot/</a> is telling us that the Hernandezs have another ally in the widow of the first son of Mike Begum, now deceased.<br />That woman is Josephina Canales Auten, whose Facebook alias is Scarlett O'Ha<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Sa-4fGzAWWjQaZL43P_6_yZO8AR3ob8qdc_BVZCiwMcVFcIwSfzBLbE23Sp8UJpIupDlEeOPbYI54HuzqvQLEMz2VxZLJX_KqHhvxQA_tAVD-tavwL6XYPrEhZzh2vqpCRSQYHGiZBA/s1600/Erin+and+Scarlett.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 327px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742119193399038210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Sa-4fGzAWWjQaZL43P_6_yZO8AR3ob8qdc_BVZCiwMcVFcIwSfzBLbE23Sp8UJpIupDlEeOPbYI54HuzqvQLEMz2VxZLJX_KqHhvxQA_tAVD-tavwL6XYPrEhZzh2vqpCRSQYHGiZBA/s400/Erin+and+Scarlett.jpg" /></a>ra.<br />Although reportedly residing in Houston, she has been seen attending events promoting Erin Herandez's candidacy against Begum.<br />Begum supporters say that after Yolanda declared her candidacy for JP, Canales resurfaced and allegedly sought to extort money from the Begums, threatening to say nasty things about them otherwise. On several posting on her page, she urged the candidate to meet with her, offering to meet and discuss the welfare of her grandchildren.<br />However, neither Begum nor her family took the bait and instead are saying that they are in the process of seeking legal action against the woman.<br />Alex Begum, Yolanda's son and an attorney, stated in a email to <em>Rrun-Rrun</em> stated that: "She claims to have gone to Harvard on her Facebook, although she never attended this college and does not have a college degree. This lady has a long and sordid history.<br />Recently, she attempted to extort my mother by sending her a Facebook message. She said that if my mother did not pay her, she would bad mouth her on the Internet. Of course, my mother refused to pay her one single penny!<br />We are in the process of reporting her actions to the authorities and looking at additional legal options."<br />There is a lawsuit filed in a Harris County court where a judge issued a restraining order against her communicating with a married man who claims he had affair with her and she was not threatening to email compromising pictures and videos to his family and business associates if he did not pay her money.<br />A copy of that case filed late last year is titled Hart Eugene Schleicher vs. Josephina Canales Auten, Cause No. 2011-74258, 165th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas.<br />Do the Hernandez know the history of their latest convert, or do they even care?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7570769080593010645?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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CARMEN ROAD SCREW-UP REVEAL EXTENT OF HERNANDEZ PATRONAGE MACHINE TENDRILS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya<br /><br /></strong>Not too may people noted the issue of the reworking of El Carmen Road next to Veterans Memorial High School.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7P8IyKdhlZlEGaJkhXGaEz4OSU-15UmY3djzrRRHAnv-28dl-Q7A2SrLXtVnKpTOhrcnaIOt9SPj4zAyBBI-EMTfG9mxNuAExdKRGgfhN6AS9a5qCDxYKDtJ825zmM8mOVU38jU_kbg/s1600/erin+h_+garcia.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742112572988335650" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7P8IyKdhlZlEGaJkhXGaEz4OSU-15UmY3djzrRRHAnv-28dl-Q7A2SrLXtVnKpTOhrcnaIOt9SPj4zAyBBI-EMTfG9mxNuAExdKRGgfhN6AS9a5qCDxYKDtJ825zmM8mOVU38jU_kbg/s400/erin+h_+garcia.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />But if you had you would have gotten an indication of what results when political patronage under commissioner Ernie Hernandez takes the lead over public service, especially when it's the taxpayers' money being wasted.<br />With his daughter a candidate for Justice of the Peace 2-2, it is instructive to see what the results are when one person tries to extend his influence on the public's nickle.<br />Public Works Director Luis Ara, a Hernandez favorite, labored mightily to explain to county commissioners why he was pouring thousands of dollars on the road when less than a year ago in April 2011 the county had finished paving the road. Well, it wasn't exactly paving, but more of a rural road upgrade using Texas Department of Transportation "millings," the name given to the asphalt when the department scarifies existing highways.<br />At one time, the TDOT used to give the millings away, but now it sells them to the county for $10 a ton, still a good deal.<br />Unable to give a good explanation of why the road project had failed miserably, Ara blamed the quality of the TDOT millings. In other words, the material was no good. Perhaps someone should alert the TDOT managers that they are selling shoddy material. Funny how it worked fine before.<br />Ara brought in supervisor Santana Vallejo to oversee the work. To seasoned Public Works employees, that alone caused red flags to go up. Something was bound to go wrong. And, now that the county has to go back and correct the mess, their suspicions were proved right.<br />You remember Vallejo, he used to to be streets supervisor with the City of Brownsville until management sniffed out something wrong with their neighborhood sidewalk program. Apparently, some of the cement being delivered to the program somehow found its way out of the city and ended up being used by individuals who then sold it to homeowners for driveways and sidewalks.<br />And just last year, a homeowner's complaint in rural Olmito filed with the Cameron County's Sheriff Department charged that Vallejo and his compadre Rosendo Rodriguez had sold them driveway pipes they were replacing as they performed ditchwork on the roads and keeping the money for themselves.<br />Sheriff Dept. officials said that the complaint against the two were dismissed on a "technicality," but insiders say that aggressive defense attorneys for the men scared them into withdrawing their charges telling them they were just as guilty as their clients because they knew the pipes were not legitimately acquired.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZ8GlNSOopdDLKtFEbZOy5hftCUfME-ZvwsY5xyYf89xAK1NMKyn_BsQdWwLz88LHUTkPEL4tApOKDtjlgwjAGFTb3zUowHF3wkWZFI7NjVKRxiNwMpHnhjEUa6cXP351TpELc0E0Gy4/s1600/ratas.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZ8GlNSOopdDLKtFEbZOy5hftCUfME-ZvwsY5xyYf89xAK1NMKyn_BsQdWwLz88LHUTkPEL4tApOKDtjlgwjAGFTb3zUowHF3wkWZFI7NjVKRxiNwMpHnhjEUa6cXP351TpELc0E0Gy4/s400/ratas.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742154265007711010" border="0" /></a>With the charges withdrawn, the men returned to their positions free and cleared.<br />And it just so happens that Rosendo's brother, Ricardo, is also working for the county in the colonia grants section and mostly in Cameron Park. Ara put that crew under the supervision of inexperienced supervisor and one of his (Ara's) favorites, foreman Ruben Gonzalez, who showed immediately upon arrival at the project that he didn't know his keister from a bar ditch.<br />He had workers climb into deep trenches without the OSHA-mandated protection for workers in sloping ditches. OSHA mandates that entities doing the work may use a trench box or shield that is either designed or approved by a registered professional engineer or is based on tabulated data prepared or approved by a registered professional engineer. Well, our Mr. Gonzalez knew nothing of this and had the workers climb into the trenches without the required protection. One, Javier Mendoza (Nuco), had the misfortune of suffering the predicable: the trench collapsed and trapped him under tons of dirt. He suffered serious injuries including damage to his internal organs and has now been declared disabled and can no longer work. As an afterthought, Ara suspended his appointee as foreman Gonzalez and now the county has been forced to pay for all the injured worker's medical and disability payments.<br />Working under the colonia improvement fund, the workers poured in thousands of dollars of caliche on Nogal Road where Aroldo Cadriel's shooting range is located. Just after Hernadez became former Pct. 2 commissioner's assistant following the disgrace of Carlos Cisneros, he oversaw the work on that road. Workers used thousands of dollars of road material and labor on the road that leads to the range, but the rest of the road south of the range is void of houses.<br />Aroldo, as we well know, is Ernie's wife Norman's cousin. He has been charged with murdering a young woman with whom he had a romantic relationship and dumping her body is a desolate rural area.<br />Her brother Robert Cadriel, a convicted felon, became embroiled in a controversy when a county employee was suspected of taking his civil service exam so he could work for the county as a security guard at Veteran's Memorial Bridge. Acting Human Resources director Robert Lopez resigned immediately after the story became public, as did Cadriel. That case is still being investigated by the county's District Attorney Armanado Villalobos, who himself has been indicted for racketeering and corruption in a case related to the Abel Limas scandal.<br />After Vallejo left the city, he ended up in the Cameron County Public Works department under Ara, who is under Pete Sepulveda, county administrator. But the incestuous nature of the Ara-Vallejo-Hernandez relationship doesn't end there. Ara's sister, Lavinia Ralston Long, who used to work at Fiesta graphics, Ernie's company, is now the receptionist for Hernandez's Precinct 2 office.<br />And remember Gilbert Galvan, the county's hapless safety officer who wrecked the county SUV when he failed to negotiate the curve at the intersection of FM 803 and Henderson Road? Well, apprently just after the truck was repaired, accident-prone Galvan had it hit by another car and the vehicle sustained some damage. Back to the repair garage!<br />Hi sister, Claudia Garza, by the way, works as receptionist at the county warehouse on 14th Street in Brownsville.<br />And Vallejos' wife, Linda C. Vallejo, also works for the county auditor's office.<br />His brother was also found a spot on the Cameron Park colonia work crew.<br />It is apparent that the colonia fund crews and county jobs have become the destination of Hernandez-Ara-Vallejo patronage ring with the predictable results. So what are a few thousands dollars in wasted road materials?<br />Remember when Ernie's niece â€" Magistrate Patricia Edlestein â€" gave his daughter-in-law Daisy de la Fuente, a former receptionist with the Cameron County Sheriff's Department, a "get out of jail" card after she was arrested after being engaged in a drunken brawl in northern rural Los Fresnos.<br />De la Fuente, married to Evan Hernandez, Ernie' son, was said to have been clocked traveling more than 100 miles per hour on Highway 100 at <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0NGI9MTLIZ39m3PqTmxOYZRN_NiU1MW-AstMTJKmMkBqymMkM6j5CAOALIV1pGeh2cmWpMdaXObarIac2Qpt7g3xniNd9-DwWumi0y4L274riz78q_aCB0VY5OmFUxBsxyjHO_qmuxDA/s1600/daisy.jpg"></a>approximately 3 a.m. then.<br />Los Fresnos police chased her and she is reported to have ditched her car and taken off on foot through the bush to elude them,<br />She then called her friends at the sheriff's department to ask them for a ride. Police found her walking on the side of the road. However, she neglected to tell them that she had left her car to avoid getting arrested by the Los Fresnos PD.<br />Unfortunately for Daisy, she forgot that she had left her purse and ID in the car and when the Los Fresnos cops went though it, they found out her real identity.<br />Even with Ernie's pleading, Sheriff Omar Lucio decided he had had enough embarrassment from one of his employees and declined to keep her on board.<br />Now, as we get ready to elects a Justice of the Peace, what can we really expect from Ernie's daughter Erin Hernandez Garcia but more of the same?<br />Voters should send a clear message that the tendrils of the Hernandez empire building can't bellowed to continue.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8363412973526409913?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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CITY CONTRACT LAWYER SOSSI SUED FOR LEGAL MALPRACTICE...AGAIN
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><br />When it rains, it pours, on city contract attorney Mark E. Sossi, that is.<br /><br />For the second time within the last three months, yet another dissatisfied customer is seeking relief in the local courts alleging that Sossi's performance in their litigation amounts to nothing more than legal malpractice. The lawsuit was filed April 23 in the 138th District Court.<br /><br />The case is similar to that filed against Sossi â€" also through Zavalett'a law office â€" by Brownsville Independent School District teacher and soccer coach Jesus Abete. Abete filed his lawsuit against the city's contract attorney Feb. 13 in the 357th District Court.<br /><br />Abete claimed s in his lawsuit that he "duly signed a contract" with Sossi and that the attorney signed the contract to represent him to recover legal damages sustained as a result of the accident. The Oliveira Middle School algebra and math teacher also claims that Sossi represented to him that the case was timely filed in court.<br /><br />"In the ensuing months, (Sossi) repeatedly lied to (Abete), and misrepresented the true facts of the underlying lawsuit to (him).<br /><br />"The truth is that (Sossi) never filed suit on behalf of Abete, and by law, suit had to be filed before the statute of limitations expired. The statute of limitations is two years from the<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccweT8_DXzewgx1vAVfPhxip-W5iEX6J3u6GUsTvU-VCBjSEDL6VoSHf3Iw7Brjpd2I1Ke3rPlIQcvIdAHd4cuMITMJfYQtSSAeH1ho6vQP3jKln4oqQiIMV6IS-fCx7sLuoW_FOdOUA/s1600/sossi.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740966677876736690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccweT8_DXzewgx1vAVfPhxip-W5iEX6J3u6GUsTvU-VCBjSEDL6VoSHf3Iw7Brjpd2I1Ke3rPlIQcvIdAHd4cuMITMJfYQtSSAeH1ho6vQP3jKln4oqQiIMV6IS-fCx7sLuoW_FOdOUA/s400/sossi.jpg" /></a> date of the accident (January 2, 2009) Jan. 8, 2011. If the suit was not filed by then, (Abete's) rights would have been forever extinguished," the lawsuit states.<br /><br />"(Sossi) failed to file (Abete's) suit," it continues. "Now that the statute of limitations has expired, (Abete) is forever barred from recovering damages for the serious personal injuries he suffered in the (crash).<br /><br />This time Rogelio and Ingrid Gonzalez, also of Brownsville, say that in representing them in a real-estate dispute with a bank and title company, Sossi:<br /><br />* engaged in conduct, acts, and omissions below acceptable professional standards;<br /><br />* engaged in conduct, acts, and omissions below standards of good and workmanlike legal services;<br /><br />*was negligent;<br /><br />* breached a warranty implied in law of good and workmanlike legal services; breached an express warranty of competence and skill to handle this type of case;<br /><br />*breached an implied warranty of competence and skill to handle this type of case;<br /><br />*committed acts and omissions of professional negligence;<br /><br />*breached his contract to represent plaintiff in a skilled and competent manner; and<br /><br />*committed fraud.<br /><br />The Gonzalez's lawsuit stems from a purchase of two lots in the Gem Estates Subdivision that unbeknownst to them carried a lien from a bank (Hibernia) and when that bank was bought out by another, the new bank Capitol Bank, it moved to foreclose on them, as it did another couple who also had interest in the lots.<br /><br />Like Abete, the couple charged that even though Sossi told them he was on top of the case, in the end, they found out that he had not been totally truthful with them and that their lawsuit had been dismissed by the court "for want of prosecution" on Sossi's part.<br /><br />The Gonzalezs, as did Abete, said Sossi had failed in his duty and had by his actions allowed their case to be dismissed by not acting on their behalf as per their contract with him for his services.<br /><br />The couple had contracted Sossi to represent them on January 28, 2008 and after years of delays, found out that the court had dismissed their case on Sept. 16, 2010.<br /><br />They found out that one of the defendants in the case â€" Southern Texas Title Company â€" filed a "motion to dismiss for want of prosecution" which was later submitted to the court Sept. 14.<br /><br />According to court records, on the date of the status hearing (Sept. 15) "Mark E. Sossi...failed to appear."<br /><br />Counsel for the company addressed the "repeated failures of (Sossi) to comply with the court's instructions of June 3, 2009, the agreement of plaintiffs' counsel announced in open court at a hearing on Oct. 14, 2009, to amend their pleadings to correct certain deficiencies of parties."<br /><br />The court, after reviewing and considering the pleadings on file in the case, the procedural history of the case, the docket entries in the case, all of which reflect the failure of the plaintiffs to comply with the court;'s instructions and orders or to prosecute their case with due diligence...the court is of the opinion that...the above-styled and numbered case should be dismissed."<br /><br />Even after the dismissal and the receipt of an email from the company to the court and copied to Sossi of the signed court order, Sossi never challenged or appealed from the dismissal of his clients' cae, including that of the Gonzalez's."<br /><br />In fact, the couple said that Sossi never even informed them of the dismissal or replied to her email on Sept. 26, 2010 inquiring about the progress of their claim.<br /><br />Like Abete before them, the Gonzalez couple claimed that Sossi committed legal malpractice:<br /><br />*In failing to timely comply with court orders that he correct the defects in parties and correct pleading deficiencies;<br /><br />*In failing to convene the telephone conferences setting trial as ordered by the court;<br /><br />*In failing to respond to the motion to dismiss for want of prosecution;<br /><br />*In failing to appear at a hearing on the motion to dismiss for want of prosecution;<br /><br />*In failing to move to reinstate, or to move for a new trial following entry of the order dismissing the case for want of prosecution; and<br /><br />*In failing to timely appeal the order dismissing the case for want of prosecution.<br /><br />The couple â€" as did Abete before them â€" ask the court to grant them actual damages plus interest as required by law, punitive damages, interest on the judgement at the highest legal rate, attorney's fees, costs of court and any other relief as may be justified."<br /><br />The Abete vs. Sossi case is scheduled for announcements Aug. 29 with a trial to follow Sept. 4, 2012. The Gonzalez case has not been set.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-1105190511663205444?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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IN DEFENSE OF VILLALOBOS: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
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<div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>The ink has yet to dry on the federal indictment of Cameron County District Attorney (and congressional candidate) Armando Villalobos and already the sanctimonious among us are yelping about paying his legal fees for his defense.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopi-wCiZNL4gA4-_iUrtEahPc11-Meh9cCgfXBgLj_ihF9-5Lk85nHLcAfm79GR1J4bINDqFmBapAZpwG4L7p_4kzQr9bFm_9DqPnDLoXUfXCLb186XlJOpnhQv3vvEPD2PUfWP3Y260/s1600/armandov.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 440px; float: right; height: 269px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740942490618780738" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopi-wCiZNL4gA4-_iUrtEahPc11-Meh9cCgfXBgLj_ihF9-5Lk85nHLcAfm79GR1J4bINDqFmBapAZpwG4L7p_4kzQr9bFm_9DqPnDLoXUfXCLb186XlJOpnhQv3vvEPD2PUfWP3Y260/s400/armandov.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div>Let's see if we go this straight.</div><br /><div>Villalobos, as a county district attorney, allegedly committed these acts that might (or might not) turn out to be illegal or criminal. In fact, the federal indictment is based on the fact that he was acting in his official capacity when he allegedly committed the acts named in the 12-count indictment.</div><br /><div>Nobody at this point knows if he is guilty or not. And we're sure that Mandos' defense will make every effort to prove that their client is innocent.</div><br /><div>Until Villalobos is found guilty or pleads to one or any of the counts, he remains as innocent as you or me. About the only person who stated this among the candidates to the 34th Congressional District was Paul Haring, the one-issue (anti-abortion) candidate with a zilch chance of merging as the GOP nominee.</div><br /><div>"He is innocent until proven guilty," he said if we are to believe the local daily whose high priestess editor and prima donna reporters were still smarting for being "slighted" at a recent Villalobos press conference. The Herald wanted five of its staff admitted to the conference and Villalobos would only allow three. Good for him. It ain't a Whitewings game, guys.</div><br /><div>County commissioner David Garza was perhaps the most sanctimonious of them all. He has not only made up his mind about the DA's guilt, but he said â€" as a Supreme Court justice once said about pornography â€" "I know it when I see it."</div><br /><div>He even wants the daughter of Villalobos' defense attorney, Stephanie Rollins, not be hired under contract because he feels he would be an "accomplice" to some unspecified crime that he has concocted in his mind. She has been working at the DA's office for the last two years and Garza had no problem with that. Why now? What does this woman's employment (and her household's livelihood) have anything to do with her boss' legal problems?</div><br /><div>Garza apparently has already made up his mind about Villalobos' guilt. God forbid he ever gets on a jury where one of us is charged.</div><br /><div>One of his Democratic opponents (Juan Angel Guerra) who has a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected, has gone as far as to file a petition to remove Villalobos as DA. Doesn't he remember when he himself was removed from office on bogus charges filed by his political opponents when he was a DA in Willacy County? You remember the theatrics he pulled. He setup a desk outside the courthouse complete with goats and chickens to call attention to his plight.</div><br /><div>Those charges against him, by the way, were later dismissed. Now he wants to remove Villalobos just as he was locked out of his elective office. History, we are told, repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, the second as a farce.</div><br /><div>As Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos said: "We're not going down that path."</div><br /><div>While we're at it, why not withdraw the legal representation for the four Brownsville Independent School District trustees (Ruben Cortez, Rick Zayas, Rolando Aguilar and Joe Colunga) who have been charged in lawsuits filed in state and federal court with conspiring to violate the civil rights of the former Chief Financial Officer Tony Juarez, former Superintendent Hector Gonzales, and former Special Needs Department Director Art Rendon?</div><br /><div>As a part of the Juarez lawsuit, they are also charged with conspiring to rig the Stop-Loss insurance contract for the district so their long-time political benefactor Johnny Cavazos could get the business. The lawsuit alleges that they retaliated against the defendants and used the district's grievance process to play one district employee against another to justify their termination.</div><br /><div>These lawsuit have been ongoing for the best part of two years and their defense has cost not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where's the outrage there? The current board majority, rather than dragging out the case and enriching lawyers, chose to cut its losses and settle with Rendon.</div><br /><div>In the other two cases, the legal cost to defend the four trustees are still being paid for by the district, and, indirectly, the taxpayer.</div><br /><div>What's it going to take? Will Villalobos have to sue the commissioners court and ask for a Texas Attorney General opinion to have the defense he is almost certainly entitled to have?</div><br /><div>Where will this lead? If the commissioners deny Villalobos the legal defense that he, as an elected official performing his duties, on charges that he incurred while in that role, will they then waste the taxpayers' dollars trying to deny him that defense? </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3128557390423804693?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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I'M WITH CHUCK! NO, HE'S NOT! AM, TOO! T'AIN'T EITHER!
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7Sbx1hKJyIOAORjVH8G2jDtXGlxiM2-CgaTwDKCMxy7Rts3BoK-E5kRF9HqCgGREq6JsQdIIKofFM4dJwuvjnd10JWpAuHinTFNL4JRWSxYMdbUTi07sbIs8CpYvxZYp_z9fBxAOTsI/s1600/chukman.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7Sbx1hKJyIOAORjVH8G2jDtXGlxiM2-CgaTwDKCMxy7Rts3BoK-E5kRF9HqCgGREq6JsQdIIKofFM4dJwuvjnd10JWpAuHinTFNL4JRWSxYMdbUTi07sbIs8CpYvxZYp_z9fBxAOTsI/s400/chukman.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740638966459823346" border="0" /></a>By <span style="font-weight: bold;">Juan Montoya</span><br /><div><strong><br /></strong>They were quite the pair.<br />When there was a high-profile case as that of Rubio beheading of his children, the trial Mexican Mafia chieftain who ordered hits from prison, and now, the Tiffany Galvan murder by her 16-year-old boyfriend, it was always Chuck Mattingly and Mando Villalobos making the closing statements and facing the press in triumph afterwards.<br />Never mind that in the Rubio case they forgot to give the defense the right to question his accusing live-in mate, or that the case cost the taxpayers of Cameron County millions to fight before and after the appeal, or that they didn't get the death penalty for the Mexican Mafia defendant.<br />Those cases, as cynical lawyers say, were "sexy," the kind you want if you're running for office.<br />And yes, both Mattingly and Mando are running. Mando for the Democratic Party nomination for the newly-created District 34 congressional seat, and Chuck for the DA's position his boss is leaving vacant.<br />As legal eagles of the Cameron County District Attorney's Office, they ruled the roost.<br />But how about dispensing equal and impartial justice?<br />Take a gander at this.<br />Mattingly and Villalobos were content to settle for 23 years imprisonment for Amit Livingston who murdered a teacher and then dumped her body in a shallow grave in the far reaches of the South Padre Island national Seashore. The woman left a husband and children behind.<br />They were content to get 45 years for the pastor who paid five hitmen to murder his wife for a $120,000 insurance policy.<br />And yet, at the Galvan trail Mattingly insisted on a 90-year prison sentence when he went before the jury, even though the defendant Javier De la Rosa was just 16 at the time he committed the admittedly gruesome crime.<br />Was this a case of vindictive justice, or a convenient high-profile case that came along just in time for for the primary elections where he is a candidate?<br />Mattingly, in his campaign speeches, delights in enunciating the names of those bad guys that he has convicted and sent away for a long, long time.<br />Funny how he doesn't enunciate the name of Amit Livingston, who they let go, or of Pepe Villarreal who slipped though their fingers and is not across the border.<br />You've met Frick. Now meet Frack.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8301359079372410607?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/im-with-chuck-no-hes-not-am-too-aint.html

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NUDE COMMANDER APOLOGIZES, PD CAN'T COVER UP ANYMORE. NOT TO WORRY, NO CHARGES
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_L7yUdbmnqEGqp5TrPfuVpwxLYEEra1Bl1tYJoBcYcmp8M6wP6y1aeiqymOYfzJq0HxSoBmIVn-YZCEIIwPVB5i-ORQ69Li7cvGsGfFHKnnxdMs71BTM2wcxPm5UbXRxmwgpFOKBTKo/s1600/nkkmdr.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_L7yUdbmnqEGqp5TrPfuVpwxLYEEra1Bl1tYJoBcYcmp8M6wP6y1aeiqymOYfzJq0HxSoBmIVn-YZCEIIwPVB5i-ORQ69Li7cvGsGfFHKnnxdMs71BTM2wcxPm5UbXRxmwgpFOKBTKo/s400/nkkmdr.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740598307067104498" border="0" /></a>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><br />A day after his nude picture burst on the Internet, a police commander has told the local daily that he was in the process of retiring anyway and acting police chief Orlando Rodriguez said the retirement makes the issue moot and no charges are contemplated.<br />Commander William Ingram told a reporter from the <em>Brownsville Herald</em> that since Ingram was retiring as of this Friday, there was nothing else to be done. Apparently, the use of a city-issued cell phone, the taking of nude photos inside the Police Department gymnasium, and the continued sexual harassment of a local woman who he says was a former PD employee are not prosecutable acts now that he will be conveniently gone.<br />â€œHe is leaving on Friday,â€ Rodriguez said. â€œWe have no employee to deal with."<br />Isn't that rich?<br />Well, Chief, today is Wednesday, and the perpetrator of the acts is still employed by the city and is on the premises exercising his full official authority? What do you mean that we have no employee to deal with?<br />To make matters worse, Ingram apparently admitted to having a "relationship" with the woman over an undetermined period of time.<br />â€œI made a mistake, so I retired and am hoping to be forgiven and move on,â€ Ingram said.<br />The newspaper says that one photograph shows Ingram in full frontal nudity, using a cell phone to snap the photograph of himself as he faces a full-length mirror.<br />But what he didn't tell the newspaper was that the nude photo wasn't the only one that he sent the woman, but rather that it was the most graphic of a series of photos that he sent over a period of time. Sources say that Ingram was insistent on having the woman send him pictures of herself as well.<br />"It got to the point where she had had enough and let the PD know about it," they said. "When Internal Affairs looked at the photos, they indicated that they had been sent by Ingram."<br />Some of the photos were not nudes. Taken from inside the PD gymnasium, they show Ingram making a muscle and smiling broadly at the mirror in shots taken of the reflection.<br />Ingram, a 35-year veteran of the force, said the woman had left the department in 2008.<br />He was most recently commander of the traffic division. Rodriguez said that even though Ingram may have violated the code of conduct, there is no recourse for administrative action and that he doesn't contemplate additional investigations will be launched.<br />Ingram was contrite in his interview with the newspaper.<br />"I was morally wrong and should not have done it,â€ he told the reporter. â€œI am suffering because of it.â€<br />Coming, as it does, after a similar incident lat December when the department weathered another texting scandal when a dispatcher was arrested on harassment charges for posting online text messages and photographs between her husband, a police officer and a female officer, this latest incident makes the department look bad, administration sources said.<br />But, as in the incident then, there should be no fallout as to prosecution.<br />The Cameron District Attorneyâ€™s office under Armando Villalobos later dismissed those charges.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8680206376585382162?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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Brownsville Noise

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Episode 28, May 8, 2012
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Rrun Rrun

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PD COMMANDER RESIGNS AFTER SENDING LEWD PHOTOS TO BROWNSVILLE WOMAN ON CITY CELL PHONE
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2J2vzwJ_hCLexROBdgpqMHBsVKLRqONhp8WAkyy_0l8jRPrC8Enxn_O7SyClccmEcEqzqP8Dqgyj31RQcpHEErpBqwH8wjvJibq4PTrZnD_H6meT_puSL2tyZPpoc2GhRoLaV-jQ12Y/s1600/nkkp.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 392px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 531px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740216629719676754" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2J2vzwJ_hCLexROBdgpqMHBsVKLRqONhp8WAkyy_0l8jRPrC8Enxn_O7SyClccmEcEqzqP8Dqgyj31RQcpHEErpBqwH8wjvJibq4PTrZnD_H6meT_puSL2tyZPpoc2GhRoLaV-jQ12Y/s400/nkkp.gif" border="0" /></a> By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><br />A Brownsville Police Department commander resigned suddenly shortly after he was confronted by Internal Affairs investigators with nude photos of himself that he had sent a city woman who asked for his help in helping her son who was involved in a traffic accident.<br />Details of the case have been kept hidden while Acting Police Chief Orlando Rodriguez and City Manager Charlie Cabler huddled to figure out a strategy on how best to handle the dissemination of the news to media outlets.<br />But Brownsville being Brownsville, a handful of media organs (no pun intended) are in possession of the photos reportedly sent to the woman by the former Commander William Ingram who suddenly retired on Tuesday April 21st at 10:21 am.<br />Ingram joined the department in 1977 and was promoted to Commander of Uniform Services September 16, 2009.<br />According to PD sources, the report filed against Ingram by the woman and now in possession of Internal Affairs has the victim claiming that after she approached Ingram to help her son with his case, he started sending her photos of himself and was persistent in that she send him some back.<br />The woman is said to have complied with one photograph of herself, but sources say they were nothing as revealing as the numerous nude photos Ingram sent her from the police station gymnasium using his city-issued cell phone.<br />This is not the first time that Ingram has made headlines in Brownsville. In July 21, 2010, he, along with Police Chief Carlos Garcia, Commander Robert Avitia, and then-Lt. Orlando Rodriguez and Lt. William Ingram were all involved the so-called Sandbag Scandal" prior to the arrival of Hurricane Alex where they had city employees deliver sandbags to their private homes.<br />Officers with the Brownsville Police Officer's Administration (BPOA) and Combined Law Enforcement Agencies of Texas (CLEAT) raised the allegations a police department-issued truck was used to pick up sandbags and that two Brownsville city employees assigned to the department delivered the sandbags to the homes of the four administrators.<br />However, that incident pales in comparison with the issues contained in the woman's complaint against Ingram.<br />"If this is what the commanders of the cops are doing, what can we expect from the lower ranks," said a source close to the city administration. "The cops are going to take another black eye on this one."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8200776717353911037?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/pd-commander-resigns-after-sending-lewd.html

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ZAVALETTA'S CLAIMS FOUR YEARS AGO NOW RING TRUE
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<div><span>By <strong>Juan Montoya<br /></strong>There is one known convicted murderer loose somewhere in the Asian subcontinent who is free because of the corrupt judicial system in Cameron County.<br /></span>That is Amit Livingston, the man who on September 30, 2005 killed 32-year-old teacher Hermila Hernandez and later buried her body in the sand dunes in the desolate reaches of the furthest access road in South Padre Isla<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORoz2B2C74A1jzqz85hwr3_a-WpS_iPr3IaxH9oF2ihlOC2BfFQCV4FqyNqgY_KrFdwQ9OPPSrj83zeFxvCbNffHMPLWwtQ8mdQ9hUAFLOpTG8BafIJb_24OGUmD_Fn-jUUS669tEdHQ/s1600/amit.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 230px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 172px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740195369357280354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORoz2B2C74A1jzqz85hwr3_a-WpS_iPr3IaxH9oF2ihlOC2BfFQCV4FqyNqgY_KrFdwQ9OPPSrj83zeFxvCbNffHMPLWwtQ8mdQ9hUAFLOpTG8BafIJb_24OGUmD_Fn-jUUS669tEdHQ/s400/amit.jpg" /></a>nd.</div><br /><div>And closer to home, accused killer Pepe Villarreal is reportedly hiding out in northern Mexico after he somehow was allowed to leave the country after he had been charged with the murder of his son-in-law and an immigration hold put on him.</div><br /><div>Already, one of the defendants in an Abel Limas corruption-related case, former Cameron District Attorney investigator Jaime MuÃ±ivez, has pled guilty to having accepted a new bicycle from Villarreal in Matamoros in exchange for information about law-enforcement efforts to prosecute him in the case. In other words, to get information from inside the enemy's house.</div><br /><div>You remember Villarreal, he is accused of having shot his son-in-law at a convenience store at the corner of Houston Road and Minnesota Avenue across the street from the Ozanam Center (Casa Romero).Somehow or another (no one seems to know how), he managed to free himself from the law while in custody through a series of (deliberate?) mixups to the point whew it is alleged the officers transporting him back to jail from a court hearing were instructed to pull over to the side of the road and allow his wife, trialing in a car behind their unit, to whisk him away to to safety across the Rio Grande.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkluy8DH8B7eb8DqJ4yycpsfoVZy-5WzsdfzJCUzqMmySJ5TcD3xZ3PoRJO0iWUKUPwUJPP8W2TwGd8zRL46WnOZ0mPgS1EubjaYHQiYL2I2Vm6hxO2TBmtWLiLoYr-P9HZBuqGIcdns/s1600/mando.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 245px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740195869518652450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkluy8DH8B7eb8DqJ4yycpsfoVZy-5WzsdfzJCUzqMmySJ5TcD3xZ3PoRJO0iWUKUPwUJPP8W2TwGd8zRL46WnOZ0mPgS1EubjaYHQiYL2I2Vm6hxO2TBmtWLiLoYr-P9HZBuqGIcdns/s320/mando.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div>The federal government continues to pursue Villarreal's trail.</div><br /><br /><div>In the case of Livingston, voters were told way back in January 2008, by then DA candidate Peter Zavaletta in a campaign ad that money from the $500,000 cash bond placed by Livingston's parents had somehow found its way to the campaign coffers of Aramando Villalobos.</div><br /><br /><div>No one believed it back then. Mando was a rising star, albeit with some baggage with his close association with Limas who the then-judge appointed as his 404th court defender of choice. People were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and ascribed Zavaletta's claims to campaign rhetoric.</div><br /><div>But just what was it that Zavaletta said back then?</div><br /><div>Zavaletta asked in his ad <span>"DID MONEY FROM AN ADMITTED MURDERER FIND ITS WAY TO THE CAMPAIGN ACCOUNT OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY?"</span></div><br /><div><span>Zavaletta claimed that "based on sworn testimony and official documents, money from an admitted murderer who is still at large has found its way into the campaign account of District Attorney Armando Villalobos."</span></div><br /><div><span>He then went on to state that "On February 13, 2007, with a jury waiting to be selected and empaneled, Amit Livingston pled guilty to the brutal murder on September 30, 2005 of 32 year old Hermila Hernandez. The offense carried a penalty range of no less than 5 years and no more than 99 years confinement in state penitentiary, or life, plus a fine of up to $10,000.</span></div><br /><div><span>Under the plea agreement offered by the District Attorney, however, Livingston was to only serve 23 years in exchange for his guilty plea. Before reporting to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division to serve his sentence, however, Livingston was given 60 days to 'get his life straightened out.'â€</span></div><br /><div><span>Despite explaining that he ha objected in chambers to Limas' decision, Zavaletta claimed that the District Attorney did not publicly object or file an emergency appeal to stop the convicted murderer from walking out the courthouse doors.</span></div><br /><div><span>Livingston had earlier deposited $500,000 in cash as a bond to secure his return.<br />"On April 18, 2007, Amit Livingston, an admitted killer, failed to surrender to authorities to begin his sentence. He had absconded."</span></div><br /><div><span></span>Yesterday, in a 34-page indictment of Villalobos, federal prosecutors accused Villalobos of receiving two payments of $40,000 each from his former law partner in Dallas Eddie Lucio as part of his take from the splitting of the $500,000 cash bond after $300,000 was given to the family of the victim and the other $200,000 to Lucio for his prosecuting the civil suit.</div><br /><div>Peter Zavaletta's warnings, after all, may not have been campaign rhetoric at all, but may have been merely pointing to the tip of the corruption iceberg rearing its ugly head from the judicial wing of the Cameron County Courthouse.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-259658381806944793?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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