By Juan Montoya
If you ever drove down Washington Street past the Cameron Hotel and along the line of finance companies, you probably saw Pancho Cisneros – in a white shirt and tie – chain smoking cigarettes outside one of them.
If you ever drove down Washington Street past the Cameron Hotel and along the line of finance companies, you probably saw Pancho Cisneros – in a white shirt and tie – chain smoking cigarettes outside one of them.
Cisneros, an operative at one of the notorious houses of loans, had a resutation as a cold, calculating lender who did not touch his heart when dealing with the crdit-poor wretches who frequent those high-interest firms.
What you probably couldn't tell if you saw him back then is that Cisneros, with assistance from his first cousin, meaning the son of his aunt or uncle (Jose Manuel Longoria), was using his connections with his relative and former 404th state District Judge Abel C. Limas to hustle customers.
Cisneros was released from federal custody on a $50,000 unsecured bond Friday after he pleaded not guilty on indictments by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to extort and aiding and abetting extortion before U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio.
According to some local bondsmen, Cisneros was not a licensed bondsman and could not have been licensed because of a prior drug conviction in 2003. That, however, proved no deterrent to Cisneros in his hustle, the indictments show.
However, his relation to Longoria allowed him to offer bail to potential customers by bribing Limas to change the bonds to personal recognizance.
What he apparently did not tell the customers was that he kept the remnant of the 10 percent fee he charged on, say, a $25,000 bond and passed along a lesser amount to Limas. Bail on a $25,000 bond would be $2,500.
He is charged with paying $700 to Limas in 2008 through his cousin Longoria for a defendant named Rodolfo Gracia, a profit of $1,800 for himself.
The whole sordid affair involving Limas and assorted attorneys and court hangers on will undoubtedly drag on through the local federal courts for months to come. The trail leads in all directions, including to Au
stin, where everyone is wondering how long nit will be before high-power attorney Marc Rosenthal will face the music for his role in some high-profile cases where Limas confessed to federal prosecutors that he accepted payments from his firm and was "of counsel" on its payroll.
What you probably couldn't tell if you saw him back then is that Cisneros, with assistance from his first cousin, meaning the son of his aunt or uncle (Jose Manuel Longoria), was using his connections with his relative and former 404th state District Judge Abel C. Limas to hustle customers.
Cisneros was released from federal custody on a $50,000 unsecured bond Friday after he pleaded not guilty on indictments by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to extort and aiding and abetting extortion before U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio.
According to some local bondsmen, Cisneros was not a licensed bondsman and could not have been licensed because of a prior drug conviction in 2003. That, however, proved no deterrent to Cisneros in his hustle, the indictments show.
However, his relation to Longoria allowed him to offer bail to potential customers by bribing Limas to change the bonds to personal recognizance.
What he apparently did not tell the customers was that he kept the remnant of the 10 percent fee he charged on, say, a $25,000 bond and passed along a lesser amount to Limas. Bail on a $25,000 bond would be $2,500.
He is charged with paying $700 to Limas in 2008 through his cousin Longoria for a defendant named Rodolfo Gracia, a profit of $1,800 for himself.
The whole sordid affair involving Limas and assorted attorneys and court hangers on will undoubtedly drag on through the local federal courts for months to come. The trail leads in all directions, including to Au
stin, where everyone is wondering how long nit will be before high-power attorney Marc Rosenthal will face the music for his role in some high-profile cases where Limas confessed to federal prosecutors that he accepted payments from his firm and was "of counsel" on its payroll.Right after the annoncement of his indictment, Cisneros' neighbors said a bail bonds sign he had on his Southmost property was taken down. But some of the cars that he had taken from some of his finance company clients after they missed a payment still remain on the property.
"I'm glad they indicted him," said one of his neighbors. "He was ruthless and had no compassion for the people who borrowed from the finance company. I saw one time when the owner of a car had all the money to pay off the loan and Cisneros wouldn't return the car. That car was all the transportation the family had to get around. It (indictment) couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."
7 comments:
Vamos a ver, we already know the identities of persons “B”, “C” & ”D”. There is speculation person “A” might be an Austin attorney. Could the identity of person “E” (an attorney) be none other than “hizzoner”? No se! Only time will tell.
We already have B, C, and D and A might be from Austin.
Next are E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N,,,, most of them are Attys, some are bondmen, and the rest are Clerks, and Assist clerks.
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-local-news/public-information-act/texas-public-salaries-app-now-has-660000-employees/
http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee-salaries/search/?page=2&q=Brownsville+texas&x=10&y=6
Person E is Joe Valle.
It is not making sense? The case Maria Guadalupe Garcia, individually, et al. vs. Metro Aviation, Inc., et al. is pretty much a slam dunk with the helicopter crashing owned and services provided by Metro aviation they are liable. It appears the other side was funneling money to their own judges ie; the Honorable Janet Leal and Judge Robles. Why would any attorney with a clear cut case need to buy a judge unless the other side had a fixed docket already. How does one fight fire? With fire of course. The human beings that died, died because a copter owned and operated for profit by Metro Aviation crashed. Bottom line metro is liable and should make it right. Instead the company hired a lawfirm with inside access and ability to acquire favorable decisions. Why do that to families who have lost loved ones do to Metro's copter crashing.
oh, please the insurance company has vast amount of resources and they hate to pay.
The only reason the people who fought for the families are getting targeted is because the insurance companies are bitter. so they convince the families to turn against they very people who helped them know that if they do the family has give them the money and that is all they want they dont care about the dead people. just the money they lost.
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