By Juan Montoya
From La Feria to Brownsville, there are widening rumors that Cameron County District Attorney challenger Carlos Masso and perhaps Pct. 2 Constable Abel Gomez might be indicted before the March 1 primary, possibly over mail-ballot fraud charges.
Some rumors even include Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio.
The rumors have gained credence because they have become so widespread across the county.
At least six politiqueras have been indicted in state court and another in federal court over abuse of mail-in ballots during the 2012 Democratic Party primary elections. Several have pleaded with the state and some still face charges over the same issues.
Masso, Gomez, and Lucio were some of the principal recipients of mail-in ballots in that election.
After that election, a joint election-fraud task force was formed made up of the Texas Attorney General's Office, the Cameron County District Attorney's Office and local federal officials. In the pre-sentencing report filed in the case of Sonia Solis, the only politiquera tried in federal court, several other politiqueras were mentioned. Neither Solis nor any of the other defendants have publicly admitted they took money from specific candidates.
But as the March 1, 2016, primary election approaches and, rumors abound that DA Luis V. Saenz, as part of the joint task force, may have a primary surprise for his opponent in the form of an indictment.
"Don't put anything past Luis," said a source at the courthouse. "His aunt (former district clerk) Aurora de la Garza used to manage them during her reign at the district clerk's office. He's had a good teacher. But if he's going to do it, he better do it now or else it'll look like prosecutoral misconduct."
Friday, September 25, 2015
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The Republicans G-Strings are all shook up with glee and merriment. Divide and conquer is their motto with these dumb Meskins .
We guess that Luis Saenz has a new election strategy, "If you can't beat them, then indict them before the election." Sounds like a strategy of despair, which means it is the child of Melissa Zamora. Luis Saenz is a DICK!
If Luis Saenz indicts all officials who have been engaged in voter fraud, he will indict the entire Democratic Party of Cameron County....including himself.
Luis Saenz has hired all of the politiqueras in his carrer. Just ask them, FBI.
Of all these politicians how many use politiqueras? Let me see luis saenz, aurora de la garza, sofia benavides, tony yzaguirre, ah a i almost forgot, joe rivera, gilbrto hinojosa, juan magallnes, ben uresti etc etc etc juan lets just call thar
kettle jet black orvisvthere any other color? Luis becareful what u wish for, you might get burned here too. Luis its over baby no matter what you do you are still a pig and folks dont want you as DA anymore, ya apestas brother, time to retire y cortarte el bigote Feo con F grande. Good bye irene
Better to have Luis Saenz than Carlos "el cartel" Masso.
The DA is being checked out as to who stole the 30 cases of Bud at Izaguirre's shindig.
The d.a. should be looked at for laundering the confiscated 8 liner machines into cash for him. He sold the machines to rick zayas who sold the machines back to operators. At least half of the profits from each sale to the operators was divided between zayas and saenz.
Masso still has a big part in it.
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