Here’s an updated link chart of figures named in open-source reporting. Sources are the El Paso Times, Border Observer and US Government. The chart is still sloppy. More work will be done.

UPDATE: The below is now the latest link chart, replacing an earlier one:

CORRUPTION CASE UPDATE: No sooner do I write that it’d be pretty easy to figure out who the unindicted co-conspirators are in the USA vs Ketner document, than El Paso Times Tammy Fonce-Olivas does just that in Saturday’s front page above-the-fold article. She writes,

“Although unnamed, the uncharged co-conspirators are designated in ways that make most of their identities easy to determine. They include County Judge Anthony Cobos, County Commissioners Luis Sariñana and Miguel Téran, former Commissioner Betti Flores, El Paso District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez, his assistant and former employee Fernando Parra, and prominent lawyers Luther Jones, David Escobar and Martie Jobe.”

They sure were easy to ID.

Fonce-Olivas’ story focuses on an assertion that Ketner assisted other lawyers in securing cases before friendly judges, allegedly by gaming the random case-assignment system.

I don’t think this is the computer that assigns cases to judges: