Tuesday, October 14, 2014

HOUSTON-BASED LAWYER SHARES $10 MILLION WITH BISD; HE AND SALAZAR BEHIND ELECTION EFFORT TO TAKE OVER BISD?

By  Various Sources
The Houston-based lawyer who represented the Brownsville Independent School District against the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and had it pay nearly $10 million in unpaid claims to the district used numerous racist and hateful emails from TWIA officials he obtained from the association through the discovery process.
Steve Mostyn, a Houston-based lawyer, revealed the details of the settlement Saturday to the BISD trustees during a Special Called Meeting.
An Associated Press report indicates that aprt from the $.92 million from TWIA, the BISD also receive a $2 milion settlemetn from Gab Robins North America Inc., an insurance underwiter.
The lawsuit was filed by the then-BISD trustees for claims they say weren't paid following a 2008 hurricane.
Mostyn, who has made an empire specializing in hurricane damage claims, has also contributed heavily to the campaigns of prominent Democrat candidates, and specializes in going after the claims denied by the TWIA.
In 2012, Mostyn, founder of the Mostyn Law Firm, established himself as a mega donor when he contributed $3 million to Priorities USA Action, a pro President Barack Obama PAC.
Some local attorneys say that Mostyn, through local go-betweens and Political Action Committees, (PACs) is also contributing heavily in the 2004 school board elections of the BISD.
Surces say that foremost among the candidates said to benefit from Mostyn's interest in the BISD have been former Coach Joe Rodriguez and, incidentally, Cesar Lopez. The go-between to the candidates is said to be BISD board attorneys Baltazar Salazar whose offices are also located in Houston.
Of the almost $10 million settlement Mostyn gained for BISD, his law firm will get a 40 to 45 percent cut, or somewhere around $5 million after expenses.
In an article published online in the "Washington Examiner" this month, writer David Yates states that: "In just the past three months, the Mostyns have contributed more than $2.3 million to Texas candidates, with the bulk of the funds going toward state Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, campaign finance records show."
In his webpage, Mostyn says that the three hurricanes that devastated the Texas Coast from Houston to Beaumont, and Galveston to the Rio Grande Valley damaged countless homes, businesses, churches, schools, and government office buildings.
A large number of cases filed for damages by insurance companies in these areas for their clients were denied by the TWIA.
"In courthouses in Galveston and the Rio Grande Valley, and in the state capitol in Austin, we revealed tens of thousands of instances of insurance company misconduct," he wrote in his company's website.
"Our team of lawyers and investigators spent thousand of hours reviewing millions of pages of documents, emails, and internal insurance company memos. And our engineers and experts proved that insurance companies had denied, delayed, and underpaid billions of dollars in covered claims."Mostyn claims that "evidence we uncovered led to a criminal investigation of one major national insurance company and a US Department of Justice investigation of another."
Among the successes Mostyn claims is that two years after Hurricane Ike, "the TWIA paid $189 million dollars to 2,400 families whose homes were completely destroyed by the storm. Years later, TWIA agreed to a second settlement of $135 million dollars to settle 1,200 additional claims. And our firm settled tens of thousands of other individual hurricane claims."
Mostyn and local counsel firms represented the district in the case. He argued that race was a factor in the denial of the district's claims.
A TWIA spokeswoman told the Associated Press that she couldn't comment on the case. Another spokeswoman previously said before that race was never a factor in settling the claims.
Mostyn made hundreds of millions of dollars suing TWIA, the sole provider of windstorm insurance in the state.
As previously reported by a tort-reform group, in the latest round of campaign finance reports reveal the Mostyns donated $200,000 to Texas House candidate Susan Criss, a former Galveston judge who presided over the majority of Hurricane Ike suits.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Check Herman's paws , et al..........

Anonymous said...

Don't forget too, through the Discovery motions, etc. The insurance windstorm companies refused to pay physical damages because of racial bias. They just don't like "Meskin" folks; but they do like our money ! To "cure" them, just don't buy their hamburgers .

Anonymous said...

I'm not a Brownsville resident. Hopefully the folks over there are paying close attention to
all the corruption and dirty politics in the school district.Results of this election will show if they will support the corrupt .
Kuddos to Carlos Cascos. He's not on Facebook posting pictures supporting these cronies.
Keep it up Sir. your running a clean race and Cameron County is watching you stay away from the crooked BISD board members .

Anonymous said...

You obviously don't know how Cascos operates.....he has his sick corrupt monkey cris valadez playing both sides and passing along damaging info in order for cascos to get what or whom he wants....his taxpayers funded assistant is constantly on the blogs thru the day or taking college courses on county time.

Anonymous said...

carlos cascos the one that orders xxx movies via mail to be delivered to his home... and god knows what else... REALLY
that is what we want... even if you do not post it.
everyone knows.............

Anonymous said...

and they also know you do post the items that might hurt your candidates..... save it.... HELLO....

Anonymous said...

Coscos is clean as a Whistlle. He uses Charmin. The best Money can buy. Perry, who is on the Lam in Europe can't come to Brownsville to campaign for him. He is in Europe Panhandling the French . Perry wants to set-up a Coñac distillery in Cameron County to compete with El Patrón Agave spirits. Da Mayor who has Blue-Blood has been appointed as the official wine taster for the Winos. Bud Abbott is out campaigning in the middle of the expressway. He was asked if he had accident insurance.

Anonymous said...

And you are an idiot. Again.

Anonymous said...

cascos' republican ties go way back to when W. bush was governor.
Cascos knows how to play the system to manipulate it any which way he desires. He is not corrupt at the local level he is corrupt at the State level.

Anonymous said...

Juan and dynamic dumbos miss sucking on Healthsmart's tit.. Can't anybody just buy Juan a drink?

Anonymous said...

If Cesar Lopez was suing the District for 2 million dollars, you would be printing negative propaganda against him all day Juan. Lucy and Cata are suing every tax payer in the school district, and you say nothing. What journalistic integrity on your part. Lucy and her partner Catalina Presas want 2 million from every tax payer. 2million that should go to children and teachers, but they want to cash in at our expense, and you say nothing. Thank you Juan. You will not post this because you are a coward.

Anonymous said...

Se chingaron a Cata and Juan posted it, WOW! There is hope for humanity.

Anonymous said...

An idiot addressing another idiot .!

Anonymous said...

Your logic makes no sense....he's already bashing him even without a lawsuit!

Anonymous said...

Run to Ryan Wolf and tell him you are suing the district mijita. You have no morals Catita, I feel sorry for you. You are going to cost Carlos Elizondo his race. You are toxic mijita.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Your logic makes no sense....he's already bashing him even without a lawsuit!

October 16, 2014 at 10:12 AM

Do not be dumb Catita. The comparison of bashing if he sued is to make the point that he is not bashing you and Lucy mijita, Ay Catita, you are so twisted, wow.

Anonymous said...

I'm not cata but your example didn't make any sense......juan bashes Lopez all day every day. ...and of course he won't bash cata and lucy; they advertise on his blog.

Anonymous said...

La Catt is not running !

Anonymous said...

Ryan Wolff for County Judge !

Anonymous said...

Nice Pic of Pawn Stars. Does the board plan to pawn the "Glass Palace".

Anonymous said...

So what if he orders such movies and spanks his monkey? He is an adult watching adult movies! Big freaking deal.

Anonymous said...

Ryan is a funny bunny! He is right in line with Booby WC

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