By Juan Montoya
Benigno G. Reyna, the Brownsville Chief of Police who got the boot as director of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in 2005 and left Washington in disgrace, has been named interim Chief of Police of the University at Texas-Brownsville by UTB president Juliet Garcia.
In a release made available to El Rrun-Rrun, Garcia made the announcement today. It is expected that he will continue to draw his current salary of $108,233.
Some say the "interim" prefix is just the tried-and-true bureaucratic method of circumventing the Equal Opportunity Commission's hiring guidelines and after a "search" Reyna will remain at the UTB helm. How many times has that happened in local governmental entities?
Reyna, who left the Marshals Service after he failed to adequately protect the families of federal judges even after he had been instructed specifically to apply funds provided by the U.S. Congress, currently holds the title of Special Assistant to the Provost for Governmental Relations.
Reyna went to Washington in 2001 after President George W. Bush nominated him to the post.
Reyna had navigated the bureaucratic waters of the BPD for some 25 years before being named Chief of Police in 1995, a position he left in 2001 to go to Washington at the behest of W.
According to a Washington Post article, he almost immediately faced skepticism from judges and regional U.S. marshals about his experience for the job.The US Marshals Service had come under fire from judges over the issue of security of judges and their families when Reyna headed the agency. He was soon the target of criticism about judicial security lapses and his leadership from federal judges and some members of Congress.
Then – only three years into his tenure – the Justice Department's Inspector General issued a report in 2004 critical of the way the US Marshals assessed threats against judges. Congress felt strongly enough about the issue that it authorized $12 million to spent on security systems for the homes of federal judges. Of 1,700 judges who requested these systems be installed, only 500 have received them before an event galvanized protest against his leadership.
The straw that broke the camel's back and which drove Reyna to resign came after typically reserved judges publicly criticized his management to Congress after a frustrated litigant broke into the Chicago home of U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow in February and killed her husband and mother.
They complained that Reyna had failed to devote staff and money to the service's primary duty of protecting judges and was channeling resources into other projects.
When Reyna could not weather the congressional onslaught, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation without explanation and thanked him for his service.
"Benigno Reyna has served as director of the U.S. Marshals Service with integrity and skill," Gonzales, who would also take his turn at the resignation podium later, said in a statement. "As a law enforcement officer with more than 29 years of experience, he has shown steadfast leadership in directing the Service in the months and years following the September 11th attacks, as well during its work with state and local law enforcement in Operation Falcon, which resulted in the arrests of more than 10,000 fugitives."
Leaving Washington D.C. in disgrace and heading home, Reyna was soon taken under the wing of University of Texas-Texas Southmost College partnership President Juliet Garcia and a position was made for him in the Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs as a Special Assistant to the VP for Administrative Affairs at $100,000 a year.
That increased to $102,000 in 2006-2007, $104,040 in 2007-2008, $106,000 in 2008-2009, and finally to $108,233 from 2010 until today. However, he was no longer is assistant in academic affairs. His niche was described as Administrative Asst. to the Office of the Provost for Governmental Affairs.
As interim Chief of Police for the UTB, we expect that Reyna will now hav to do more than ride around in his golf cart inspecting the real estate at UTB.
Meanwhile, decorated academics and researchers have begun looking toward a legal remedy after they have been put on the chopping block as the downsizing of the UTB staff continues wholesale. Those Garcia favorites like Reyna, however – with minimal contributions to the academic or communitys' well-being – continue to flourish and prosper in her dwindling empire.
10 comments:
salario de 108000 dlls, a quien va a cuidar este guey. a enrique pena con razon con estos salarios si que estamos jodidos
Geeez, can't we get rid of these leeches? Garcia to the port and Reyna to UTB, SERIOUSLY?
Garcia is doing a good job at the port, lets talk about the dediocre of Orlando Rodriguez instead, or Reyna @ UTB. :)
Garcia is a farce! Your boy dismantled the drug task force. Splain me dat Carlito. Look into his associates and family members, oh you're probably one of them
Dejen a Carlos en paz ENVIDIOSOS. Nosotros seguiremos botando por Carlitos cada vez que el nos necesite, es muy buen hombre y muy bueno para trabajar.
para trabajar con quien? el cabron desmantelo el grupo de anti narco en BPD. Es un chueco!
YYYYYYYYYYY???????? cual es el problema si lo desmantelo o no??? cuando uno es JEFE...uno tiene toda la autoridad para hacer y des-hacer lo que nos venga en gana y a la hora que nos da la gana???? cuando tu seas Jefe..si es que algun dia lo logras jajaja tu haces y des haces lo que tu quieras, y ademas que tiene que haiga desmantelado el disque grupo de anti narco??? si para empesar los pinches cabrones no hacen nada!!! que desmantelan?? haver dime por favor, por que asta donde llo se, los pinches cabrones del ex grupo de anti drogas no hacian nada y a todo le tenian miedo, hay no metian y aventaban a los pobres perritos por enfrente a su suerte?? los pobres perritos eran los que hacian todo el pinche trabajo y ellos que culpa tenian de que los trajeran trabajando de esa manera?? ahh pero eso si, todo el trabajo que los perros hacian, los pinches policias se levantaban el cuello, que bueno que desmantelaron ese grupo por que ellos no hacian nada y ademas ni que hubieran un monton de narcos aqui en Brownsville, y los que hay todos bienen y estan conectados con la pinche policia, para que se quieren seguir haciendo pendejos?? a los que si sabemos de que pata cogean los policias no nos hacen tontos, ademas estos policias son un completo fracaso y nadie queremos tirar nuestras taxes en ellos.
Bring chief cardoza back!
That shit on Renya is utter bullshit, he resigned out of disgrace, because of what bush, & gonzo did, 2 someone on the war on terror, & instead of being a accessory 2 it, he chose 2 resign, & this is the story, that TPTB makes up on him = what a disgrace, & unfortunately, he has 2 bite his tongue, yet I do not, & THE TRUTH, will be told, 1 day soon enough...
~ ”NOW WHEN WE CONTACTED SCOTUS, BACK IN LATE 2004 / EARLY 2005, ABOUT VERY SERIOUS CRIMINAL CONDUCT, ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, ON THE WAR ON TERROR, THAT AMOUNTED 2 TREASON = SUDDENLY CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST MYSTERIOUSLY DIES ON 9/03/2005, WHILE HAVING U.S. FEDERAL MARSHAL PROTECTION WITH HIM AT HIS HOME” ~
~ ”PRIOR 2 THAT, CHIEF JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, ANNOUNCED HER RETIREMENT ON 7/1/2005, 2 THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, & FINALLY RETIRED ON, 1/31/2006” ~
~ ”WE TRULY, & TOTALLY BELIEVED, THAT THESE 2 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, WERE ON OUR SIDE, REGARDING THIS MATTER, UNTIL THE ABOVE STATEMENTS, CAME INTO FRUITION” ~
~ ”PRIOR 2 THAT, WE NOTIFIED THE DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. MARSHAL SERVICE = BENJAMIN RENYA, JUST LIKE THE SCOTUS’ WITH A 15 PAGE LARGE MANILLA ENVELOPE + NANCY PELOSI, THROUGH A SIGNATURE CERTIFIED MAIL, IN WHICH SHE NEVER RETURNED BACK UNTO US, & A SLEW OF OTHERS + EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS, IN BOTH HOUSES, WERE MADE AWARE OF THESE CRIMES ~ WELL WE HAVE COME 2 THE CONCLUSION, THAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. MARSHAL SERVICE, CONFRONTED, BUSH & GONZO, & MR. RENYA, DIDN’T LIKE THEIR ANSWER, & HE RESIGNED FORTHWITH” ~
~ ”THE INFORMATION, THAT WAS CONTAINED, WITHIN THESE ENVELOPES, CONTAINED ALL OF THE PARTICULARS, OF WHAT TRANSPIRED = THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, & HOW = ALL OF THE EVIDENCE, THAT LAID OUT, & DETAILED, EVERY ASPECT, & FACET OF THE CRIMES, THAT WERE COMMITTED, & THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR THAT FOLLOWED SUIT” ~
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