If it’s Sunday, a few changes to the El Paso alleged corruption link chart are in order.
We’re putting in Dee Margo’s interview with the FBI (he said he is not implicated) and his association with the Chicago-based McCormick Tribune Foundation, which founded Margo’s project Border Fund. There may have been rent-free (aka “pre-paid rent” dealings with both NCED and Hospice El Paso.
Here’s the gory graphic, in all its gore:
If it’s Sunday, a few changes to the El Paso alleged corruption link chart are in order.
We’re putting in Dee Margo’s interview with the FBI (he said he is not implicated) and his association with the Chicago-based McCormick Tribune Foundation, which founded Margo’s project Border Fund. There may have been rent-free (aka “pre-paid rent” dealings with both NCED and Hospice El Paso.
Here’s the gory graphic, in all its gore:
Some updates to the link chart are included below (hold your nose and click on thumbnail for full-sized sleazy stink; on some browsers you can click again on the image to super-size and take you off your dinner). Eliminated one duplicate name, added Doris Sipes, and included what the guilty pled guilty to.
Despite all the information that has been made available, it’s still difficult to scope out star-clusters in the chart. We can see relationships about NCED, Judge Anthony Cobos, the ELPC Commission, but those are really it so far (not that those are insignificant). Some of those named in the warrant (as co-conspirators though they are easy to identify) have not appeared in reporting since. That the investigation is ongoing and that more clusters have not been uncovered suggests that more information will come to light, rather than that the investigation is slowing down.
Fernando Parra, assistant to and former employee of El Paso District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez, was arrested on child porn charges.
The unsealed criminal complaint is here. [HT: The Strelz.]
The El Paso Times astutely notes that Parra may be pressured by this complaint into cooperating in the ongoing (and presumably burgeoning) El Paso government corruption case.
Parra has done work for lawyer Luther Jones, according to the El Paso Times. Jones was more or less named in the original warrant.
Here’s the updated corruption link chart (click for full-size chocolaty goodness):
Sonora state legislators have complained about Arizona’s new employer sanctions law, which punishes those who hire illegal aliens.
By doing so, they hope to co-opt existing American cultural systems, laws and norms to suit their needs.
After all, it beats having the intellect, moral strength and political acumen to deal with their self-made failures. Evolutionary biology explains all, in this case.
Hat Tip: Stop the ACLU.
Out in West Texas, they’re rolling faster than wagon wheels on a Wells Fargo stagecoach being chased by banditos.
Newspaper Tree reports that both Roberto Gerardo Ruiz, a.k.a. “Bobby†Ruiz, former Managing Director for the Dallas, Texas office of Bear Stearns and Christopher Chol-Su Pak, a.k.a. Chris Pak, former Vice President in the Dallas, Texas, office of Bear Stearns, pled guilty. We’re talking wire fraud and bribery here. And the intended targets shouldn’t be new to followers of corruption nodes in town: the El Paso Independent School District, the El Paso Community College District, the City of El Paso, and members of the El Paso County Commissioner’s Court.
We still don’t like the existence and purpose and framework of the Commissioner’s Court.
The El Paso Times continues, suggesting that public officials are being targeted for corruption. What? Corrupt public officials? Here??
The updated corruption link chart can be found here.
Remember Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, the drug smuggler who was paid by the U.S. to help convict USBP agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean for shooting him in the ass when he was smuggling marijuana into the US in 2005?
He’s about as dumb as we thought he was back then.
El Paso Times notes his tearful family letting that Aldrete crossed into the US because he thought he was getting more money from the feds — for Christmas gifts.
You can’t make this stuff up. One hundred and twenty-nine other dummies just got rounded up in El Paso in the same way. High IQ is not highly-regarded among the criminal set along the border.
Aldrete, who lives in Juarez, from where he gazed lovingly at the William Beaumont Army Hospital in El Paso where he received ace medical attention, had said he’d never cross back into the US — with or without a load of dope, presumably.
I expect Aldrete will have a lot more worries about his backside in prison than the bullet lodged there a couple of years ago. While Ramos and Compean have suffered from inmates’ abuse, this celebrity trafficker will be (in)famous enough to learn about new ways to make his butt-ocks hurt. They really ought to get TVs out of prisons.
Patterico links to the news, and Johnny Sutton’s name turns up in the comments, like a chow chip under your boot.
Diggers Realm has more.
According to TV, the FBI hired a deaf person — Sue Thomas, FB Eye, so why not hire an illegal alien and fraudster as well? Hell, why not make her marriage-fraud sister a Marine?
Nada Nadim Prouty is a name you ought to remember, especially if you’re an FBI or CIA recruiting officer looking to fill empty billets. Oh, wait, maybe it’s a name you ought to remember if you’re not from the FBI or CIA, because they’ve already messed up. Prouty was an illegal alien who apparently entered the US in a sham marriage scheme, rose to the rank of FBI special agent and CIA analyst… before being busted.
What’s really shocking is the nonchalant attitude of FBI and CIA spokespersons about the whole thing… as if immigration enforcement isn’t their job. Which it isn’t, I guess. And in that case, I know some great Spanish-speaking folks in the neighborhood who are clearly cut out for sensitive, clearance-holding jobs at these top-notch American institutions.
Michelle Malkin covers this story, and another… her sister is apparently in on the marriage scam thing as well… and became a USMC officer.
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When it rains, it pours: The FBI will have to relook convictions based on a faulty forensics test.
Jihad Watch notes other instances of Federal slack.
Honestly, does anyone in Washington really give a tinker’s cuss about immigration enforcement? Doesn’t seem like it. It seems, instead, that arms of the federal government are actively at cross-purposes with each other — the one enforcing laws, the other dismissing them. And that would be OK — no one expects the government to actually be useful to the citizenry – but the waste of money is galling.
UPDATE: The EPA didn’t want to be left out of the illegal migrant with access to sensitive information news. (HT: Jihad Watch.)
The latest version of the link chart for the alleged corruption case is now here. I’ve added unindicted co-conspirators (unnamed) and have noted the recent, startling hiring of former Border Observer Supremo Jaime “FBI is the local Gestapo” Perez as Cobos’ Chief of Staff. More on Perez later, no doubt, beginning with how such a shining example of independent thought and concern for the masses got bought out for a government salary, like any plebian who gets co-opted in the finest Mexican way across the border. I don’t think this was a case of “silver or lead” but Perez showed some kind of spots with this job. Unrelated to his hiring, mortgage and tax rates are indeed rising all along the Borderland. And, food is surprisingly expensive, at least in the chain grocery stores. Gas? Don’t get me started. What I’m saying is, a dollar bill and a rebellious, divisive attitude don’t go as far as they used to. When the going gets tough, sometimes, the supporters of rebels would rather buy milk, tortillas and gasoline than support causes that, in the end, don’t really benefit them in any other way than assuaging their put-upon sense of guilt.