"BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Sonia Leticia Solis, 55, has entered a plea of guilty to voting more than once in connection with the 2012 primary runoff election held in Cameron County on July 31, 2012, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
The election included candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Solis resided in Brownsville during the election and obtained multiple mail-in ballots by forging applications on behalf of individuals she represented to be disabled.
U.S. District Judge Hilda Tagle, who accepted the guilty plea, has set sentencing for Feb. 5, 2014, at which time Solis faces a possible federal prison sentence of up to five years and a maximum $10,000 fine.
This case was investigated by the FBI and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Bill Hagen."
It is unknown what agreement the plea involved or what Solis agreed to in return fro her guilty plea.
She is associated with the group of political operatives (politiqueras) working the election with Tomasita Chavez, another politiquera. The group was working for a ticket that involved several candidates and were passing out marked sample ballots for candidates in that election including DA candidate Carlos Masso, JP 2-2 candidate Erin Garcia-Hernandez, Constable Abel Gomez and U.S. Rep. candidate Denise Blanchard.
The US Attorney's Office did not indicate whether Solis is cooperating in the ongoing joint state-federal investigation into mail-in and walk-in voting fraud during the that election.
(We reprint a post from the from El Rrun-Rrun published last year when the five fraudulent mail-in ballots were detected by Citizens Against Voter Abuse, Yolanda Begum, and other volunteers after the July 31 runoff election.)
(We reprint a post from the from El Rrun-Rrun published last year when the five fraudulent mail-in ballots were detected by Citizens Against Voter Abuse, Yolanda Begum, and other volunteers after the July 31 runoff election.)
By Juan Montoya
El Rrun-Rrun
(September 8, 2012)
The apartment complex off Paredes Line Road on Shidler Drive has seen its better days.
The manager of the half block of two-story brick buildings says they are not apartments, but rather owner-owned "condominiums."
The parking lot sports more than a few large potholes that must be navigated by motorists to prevent damage to their cars. The grass is unkempt. A swimming pool – once the center of social activity – lies empty behind locked wrought-iron gates.
"These units have the bedroom at the top of the stairs," said the manager. "There's a kitchen and a small living room downstairs. You can't have too many people inside at one time."
Yet, from one of these efficiency "condominiums," five mail-in votes were cast in the runoff July 31. The names of the voters does not appear in the door or mail box of the units. And the manager says he does not remember five people living at the unit in addition to a young tenant and his father who now are the only ones to occupy the dwelling. The kicker is that the person who cast those votes listed the reason they were casting mail-in ballots was because they were "disabled."
"There's no way seven people can live in one of those units," he said. "As far as I know, that many people have never lived there. How can you be disabled and still climb the stairs to the bedroom?"
But how could it be that the mail-in votes could have been cast from that unit?
"They were," said Mary Helen Flores, an anti-voting fraud activist with Citizens Against Voter Abuse (CAVA). "We have gone to knock on the door at least three times and the current tenant said that the voters no longer live there. At first he said that they had gone on vacation and would be back later. When we asked when, he said that they would be gone for months."
However, the tenant also told other people – including the manager of the complex – that the people listed as voting from his unit's address had left the apartment at least four months ago. That raises yet another question. If they left the apartment four months ago, how is it that they could have applied for the mail-in ballots from the Brownsville address. And the killer, of course. How could they have voted by mail from that address if they had been gone for two months after the July 31 runoff?
Could it be that someone had applied and received the mail-in ballots, filled them out an returned them, without their consent or knowledge? Did someone have their cards?
"Those people have never lived there," Flores said.
(September 8, 2012)
The apartment complex off Paredes Line Road on Shidler Drive has seen its better days.
The manager of the half block of two-story brick buildings says they are not apartments, but rather owner-owned "condominiums."
The parking lot sports more than a few large potholes that must be navigated by motorists to prevent damage to their cars. The grass is unkempt. A swimming pool – once the center of social activity – lies empty behind locked wrought-iron gates.
"These units have the bedroom at the top of the stairs," said the manager. "There's a kitchen and a small living room downstairs. You can't have too many people inside at one time."
Yet, from one of these efficiency "condominiums," five mail-in votes were cast in the runoff July 31. The names of the voters does not appear in the door or mail box of the units. And the manager says he does not remember five people living at the unit in addition to a young tenant and his father who now are the only ones to occupy the dwelling. The kicker is that the person who cast those votes listed the reason they were casting mail-in ballots was because they were "disabled."
"There's no way seven people can live in one of those units," he said. "As far as I know, that many people have never lived there. How can you be disabled and still climb the stairs to the bedroom?"
But how could it be that the mail-in votes could have been cast from that unit?
"They were," said Mary Helen Flores, an anti-voting fraud activist with Citizens Against Voter Abuse (CAVA). "We have gone to knock on the door at least three times and the current tenant said that the voters no longer live there. At first he said that they had gone on vacation and would be back later. When we asked when, he said that they would be gone for months."
However, the tenant also told other people – including the manager of the complex – that the people listed as voting from his unit's address had left the apartment at least four months ago. That raises yet another question. If they left the apartment four months ago, how is it that they could have applied for the mail-in ballots from the Brownsville address. And the killer, of course. How could they have voted by mail from that address if they had been gone for two months after the July 31 runoff?
Could it be that someone had applied and received the mail-in ballots, filled them out an returned them, without their consent or knowledge? Did someone have their cards?
"Those people have never lived there," Flores said.
13 comments:
Vieja chueca pa la carcel.
You don't think she gave up Norma, do you?
Is it true that she sang like a canary to get a lighter sentence?
tomasita chavez, now there is a name i have not heard in a while, so will she be charged also? we shall see, said the blind man. adios
juan so how come the candidates she was working for were not charged too. They should be as guilty as she is or no? just saying my opinion.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a GREAT FALL,,!! they all come tumbling DOWN.. here we go... get set !!
she will be singing like a canary.. real soon .. like a pretty birdy... sing ...fa la la la la .. sing
Who's left AMADEO Rodriguez
son una bolla the ratas
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NORMA HERNANDEZ IS THE QUEEN OF THE POLITIQERAS! THE MONEY TRAIL WILL LEAD STRAIGHT TO THE HERNANDEZ CAMPAIGN!
Juan has anybody asked the other JP if they do it, and if they think it is ok for Erin to do it
Lowlife.
juan you know it takes 2 to tango, so how come none of the candidates that were runnign and hired her were busted too allow with her? inquiring minds would like to know?
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