HUNT IS ON FOR BTPAC'S PHANTOM CAMPAIGN TREASURER

By Juan Montoya
Lawyers with the Texas Ethics Commission, investigators with the U.S. Postal Service and the board of discipline of the Texas State Bar would dearly love to meet Juan Leal Flores.

All three entities have been alerted through formal complaints to be filed this week that Flores, the alleged treasurer of the Brownsville Taxpayers Political Action Committee, may not exist.
When the BTPAC filed electronically to register with the Texas Ethics Commission, they listed his address as 925 N. Iowa, in Brownsville.

That turned out to be a vacant lot being sold by Liz Realty, who happens to be the sister of BISD board counsel Baltazar Salazar.
The BTPAC used his name to conduct three mass mailouts disparaging the candidacy of Position 5 school board incument Caty Presas-Garcia.
The mailouts were issued under Flores' name and the BTPAC. (Click on graphic to enlarge)

Now it turns out that Flores has moved the his "office or residence" to Houston.
His new address on the TEC campaign expenditures report states that he now lives (or has an office) at 5974 Revensworth Drive. That is also the BTPAC's new address as well. How incongruous is it that a PAC for Brownsville Taxpayers is in Houston?

Well, coincidence of coincidences, the Harris County Appraisal District lists that property for 2015 and 2016 as belonging to Baltazar and Maria Salazar. The address for the couple is  8814 Brae Acres Rd., the same address listed for Salazar when he makes political contributions.

A google search of the Ravensworth address shows it to be vacant, and without a light meter, indicating that there is no electricity at the house where Flores (the phantom treasurer) is supposed to live.

Bloggers and researchers have been looking for the elusive Mr. Flores to no avail.

If he "lived" at the vacant lot on North Iowa, we'd dearly love to know where he got his mail since there isn't even a mailbox at that vacant lot. In fact, the BTPAC's own mailing address at 400 Alton Gloor is a business that rents mail boxes. When the owner of the business found out it was being used for the BTPAC to attack Presas-Garcia, he stopped providing the service. So Flores had to "move."

The only two Juan Leal Flores found through an Internet search live in San Antonio and Dallas.

The TEC report also lists the expenditures of the PAC and – wonder of wonders – each and every expenditure to pay for an anti-Presas-Garcia website, printing and publishing of the negative mass mailouts were made with $$13,200.42 in contributions from Salazar.
http://204.65.203.5/public/100648271.pdf

If Salazar, or anyone else for that matter, is using an alias on the GPAC (General Purpose Committee Report, page 2) they are violating Title 15, Election Code as stated in the affidavit the filer (#00081082) electronically signed via an electronic submittal:
"I swear, or affirm, under penalty of perjury, that the accompanying report is true and correct and includes all information required to be reported by me under Title 15, Election Code.
Signature of Campaign Treasurer.

Juanito Flores, where are you? Te andan buscando, bro!