By Juan Montoya
One day before he was scheduled to go to trial on charges of abuse of official capacity, theft by a public servant and misapplication of fiduciary property, the Cameron County District Attorney's Office dismissed the cases against former interim Cameron County Judge.
Sepulveda was accused of using county materials and employees to pave a private road in San Benito on December of 2016.
According to the Brownsville Herald, the DA's Office dismissed the cases due to insufficient probable cause.
Let's see if we got this right.
"Someone" up above gave the order to the county administrator in charge of Public Works and Transportation to pave the road to a rural grade standard.
"Someone" was called up by the administrator and told to get everything ready to do the work.
"Someone" was called up by the administrator and told to get everything ready to do the work.
"Someone" assigned the road crews of the county's Public Works Dept. to work on the road.
"Someone" ordered their supervisors and foremen to use county materials and county equipment.
"Someone" also did the paperwork so that the work order would reach the precinct crews.
"Someone" also ordered the crews to use fuels, lubricants, etc., for the machinery.
"Someone" also decided that the work was finished and ordered the crews to return to their barns.
It could not have been Pete Sepulveda alone. If the case had gone to court, the county administrator, supervisors, workers, and even a county official or two would have been incriminated.
As a matter of fact, County Administrator David Garcia was set to rat on his former boss and everyone else involved in return for immunity from prosecution. This wasn't Garcia's first rodeo. He did the same thing in the case involving former Pct. 2 commissioner Ernie Hernandez when he tried to get his brother-in-law a job as a security guard at one of the bridges.
The dismissal of the case – with a relatively light slap on the hand of the former county judge – was a very political solution to the theft of public materials, use of its workforce, and the wear and tear on the machinery.
Now either Sepulveda's attorney Noe Garza is a hell of lawyer or D.A. Luis V. Saenz is a very political animal. He had Sepulveda agree to take part in a pretrial diversion program for one year with the condition that he reimburse the county for the materials, equipment and labor that were used to pave the road.
How very neat. Now we'll never know who the "someones" involved in the theft of the public dollar were.
13 comments:
Just another case of county officials covering each others ass. Its almost like professional courtesy to allow county officials to get by with what citizens would be jailed for, or at least prosecuted to the fullest. In the past, Sheriff Omar Lucio refused to arrest the son of Aurora de la Garza who was charged with stealing money from a local hospice. Luis Saenz is too politically motivated to take action that will cost him votes by his own party. The county liter box is full of shit that gets covered up and reflects the double standard where county officials and employees are not subject to the same laws as the rest of us.
It was YOU, Juan!
Big deal! What do you expect from a bunch of Mexicans, honest government?
Joey de la Garza is also Luis Saenz nephew, no? Here we go again with the same dirty colcha covering all the shit in Cameron county.
They did it with Joey so why not Pete, but why did they get el pobre de Rudy Salazar and Ernie got away scott-free? Te digo!!!
Well if Pete took Pretrial Diversion, he is guilty. Who wants to be in a years probation paying fees. Where is Emma Trevino when we need her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If we knew the WHY then maybe we'd understand the reasoning for the "slap on hand". Did Sepulveda get money, sex, or sundry favors in exchange for a road? Is there a "movida" hiding somewhere? Does he have a suegro or cuñao he's trying to score points with? Or is this simply a cash only op at reduced price? And if so, how many more satisfied customers are out there with new driveways at taxpayers subsidized prices. Good job Montoya. Follow the caliche trail
Brownsville Herald has it wrong. See the channel 4 article. http://valleycentral.com/news/local/former-cameron-county-judge-will-avoid-trial-on-public-corruption-charges. Sepulveda surrendered to investigators in January after a grand jury indicted him on three charges: 1) abuse of official capacity, a state jail felony misapplication of fiduciary property, 2) a state jail felony and 3)
theft by a public servant, a third-degree felony. Sepulveda struck a deal with prosecutors and agreed to participate in a pretrial diversion program on the state jail felony charges numbers 1 and 2, according to court records filed Friday.
Acting on a motion filed by prosecutors, state District Judge Janet Leal dismissed the 3rd remaining charge only. The first 2 charges were not dismissed. Sepulveda cut a deal to payback the money and agreed to pre-trial diversion on the two state jail felony charges.
No, it's Texas. These should not be elected positions.
This DA is just a piece of shit. Thats all folks
Same old BULLSHIT just another victim by our infamous DA!! These guys play with the same attorneys cutting deals and stirring the proverbial pot of shit just enough to keep it REAL STINKY!!
juan question if this was a plea agreement which is smells and sounds like and pistol pete Sepulveda governs millions and I mean millons of taxpayers funds, is he still a bondable person or not? cause if its not then he needs to resign from his $285K per year job immediately? don't you think? Or is the CCRMA board going to look the other way on this one too? disgruntled taxpayer
Valgame..Santa Maria....
Valley JUSTICE.....or the lack of there of. COMPADRISMO!!!!! Where is the F.B.I.?
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