The talking heads have been so focused on the Paul Manafort indictments that the true danger to Donald Trump has been scantily discussed. When the indictments and prosecutions in the massive El Paso public corruption cases were made publicly available, it became quickly evident that much of the cases hinged on people who wore wires… Read More Dolores Briones Lessons and George Papadopoulos
(This post was edited on April 8, 2017 at 12:30ET [10:30EP to correct an error I made in regards to Alexsandra Annello, please read below for more information ) Some of you have let me know that you are upset with my lack of coverage of last Saturday’s El Paso municipal elections. The reason I… Read More The May 2017 Election – Nothing Changed
Most of you, if not all of you, are aware of the Ross Fisher Ethics Investigation Preliminary Findings and Advice Report dated February 26, 2016 and released by the City. There is much commentary and speculation about the report and its findings online and, of course, by Bob Moore’s newspaper. The report has already generated… Read More The Fisher Report Peels the Onion of Corruption
When an FBI investigation dubbed Poisoned Pawns was launched it was focused on one individual and his scheme to defraud the federal government of federal dollars. By the time the dust settled, over 25 public officials went to jail or admitted guilt to public corruption. The avalanche started because one individual, Travis Ketner, panicked and… Read More Veronica Escobar is at the Center of El Paso Scandals
There is a concept of conflict of interest when making decisions. Unless you have been involved in making business decisions, most individuals do not have to worry about conflicts of interest. The more money we have oversight over the greater our responsibility to conflict of interest is. In its simplest terms, conflict of interest becomes an… Read More Sam Legate and Conflicts of Interest
Some of you may have noticed that the El Paso, Inc. ran a Whispers column yesterday where it was disclosed that the El Paso Children’s Hospital has a new chair. She is Rosemary Castillo, founder of Bienvivir Senior Health Services. She replaced Sam Legate as board chair. As most of you know, I like to… Read More El Paso Children’s Hospital Appoints New Chair
Reading the various plea agreements that have been made public in the public corruption scandal in El Paso there was one thing that stood out for me – the waiver of rights the agreements included. It was curios to me because the plea agreements included language whereby the defendant waived the right to any future… Read More Prosecutors No Longer Demanding Plea Agreements Waive Right to Appeal
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Last Tuesday, August 18, Adrian Peña pleaded guilty to public corruption charges for a second time. In 2010, Adrian Peña had pled guilty to public corruption charges however; the appeals court reversed his guilty pleas and sent his case to another judge. The appeals court ruled that the original judge had improperly interfered in the… Read More Adrian Pena to Answer Questions on Monday
I am sure most of you noticed something that struck me interesting when I was putting together the various Poisoned Pawns links charts, the absence of the City of El Paso. With the various controversies involving the ballpark and the other hullabaloos surrounding the public agenda policy initiated by Ray Caballero I found it curious… Read More Where is the City?
Operation Poisoned Pawns is an FBI investigation into public corruption in El Paso Texas that began around 2004. The FBI nationally began focusing on public corruption cases around 2004 as it shifted its focus from terrorism after 9/11 towards political crimes. Several search warrants were served on El Paso officials on May 2007 at their… Read More Poisoned Pawns Convicts and Named Individuals
(broken links corrected on July 28, 2018) As I wrote yesterday, I have been developing a link chart of everyone involved in the Poisoned Pawns public corruption investigation. Because many of the court records remain sealed I have had to plug in names on a “best guess” basis. As you can see from the chart,… Read More Poisoned Pawns Link Chart
As many of you already know I have been working on connecting the dots between many individuals, the public corruption scandals and the drug violence in Juárez for many years. I have been creating a time line of events going as far back as the 1960’s. I have also been creating many link charts of… Read More Poisoned Pawns Investigation into Public Corruption: Three Part Series