By Juan Montoya
And so the Brownsville Independent School District board's general counsel Baltazar Salazar has been put in charge of the district's follow-up investigation of the rotten barbacoa involving Valco and the probe into Grafik Spot that came to light in the wake of the suicide death of former BISD Food and Nutrition Service director Silverio Capistran.
This is the same Salazar who was hired by a former BISD board even after it was revealed that the 13th District Court of Appeals had revoked the expungement of three felony counts of theft when he owned an optometry service and before he got his law license. A majority of the BISD trustees at the time disregarded the evidence and hired him over more qualified firms anyway. He now draws a $280,000 salary at the district.
He is also the same Salazar who was named in a Texas Ethics Commission complaint for being the sole financial contributor to a Political Action Committee which funded a successful campaign to defeat Catalina Presas-Garcia in the last BISD elections.
That PAC listed its treasurer's address at an Iowa Road vacant lot that just happened to be listed as a property for sale under his sisters' realty company. The mailing address was a rented P.O. Box at a local Federal Express outlet. The treasurer later amended his address to a Houston home. That turned out to be a vacant house listed to Salazar and his wife. The house had been empty for some time and had no utilities. The case filed by Presas-Garcia in local courts is ongoing.
The BISD FNS case drew wide attention because it involved a company named Valco – a TASB Buy Board vendor – that was selling meat processed in Mexico to Region 1 school districts including the BISD and La Joya ISD.
After the spoiled barbacoa was detected in the BISD's cafeterias, the late FNS director, for some unexplained reason, had the meat in storage sent to La Joya. Meanwhile, the district asked Valco to refund them the value of the meat to no avail. The board continues to deliberate on filing a lawsuit to recover the value of the barbacoa returned. Valco, meanwhile, has gone out of business.
After the spoiled barbacoa was detected in the BISD's cafeterias, the late FNS director, for some unexplained reason, had the meat in storage sent to La Joya. Meanwhile, the district asked Valco to refund them the value of the meat to no avail. The board continues to deliberate on filing a lawsuit to recover the value of the barbacoa returned. Valco, meanwhile, has gone out of business.
And who's in charge of recommending whether the district should pursue its legal remedies or not? Would you believe Salazar?
We first made the request for information from the BISD January 11 as follows :
Please consider this a formal request for information.
1. A copy of all reports, documents, etc. related to the investigation into potential fraud and criminal violations in the Food and Nutrition Service by the BISD, Texas Rangers, FBI, etc., that may be available to the district.
2. The name of the person placed in charge of the investigation into Valco, Grafik Spot, or any other companies investigated in connection with possible fraud against the district, the State of Texas or the U.S. government
3. Any correspondence to the board from attorneys, law enforcement or monitors concerning those matters, including the consideration of pursuing legal action against these vendors
I thank you in advance for your positive attention to this request
We are not fortune tellers here, but given Salazar's track record, something tells us that this will end in nothing and that BISD will just have to eat the loss of the spoiled barbacoa, again.
15 comments:
Lucy and Catita are running again for BISD Trustees! Catita, the people do not like you mijita..... please stop your nonesense! The kids hate you mijita.... Hasle de comer a tu viejo mijita! I will pray for you Catita..
Mmmm love me some illegal spoiled barbacoa from Mexico. You know what goes great with it? RICE AND BEANS.
BISD is hiring a lawyer that they know will return an investigation "verdict" that will be favorable to BISD. BISD is corrupt and can not be trusted to investigate themselves. A true investigation cannot made with BISD managing and choosing "their" man. Time we had some honest people managing education for out kids.
If Balty is getting just as much money as the superintendent, he should certainly be doing the amount of work our superintendent does. He needs to earn his money some way besides keeping "the wrong time" when people speak at the meetings. That is all I have seen him do for the money he gets but I have never seen as many complain about his salary. Put him to work even if it means washing all the Cadillacs in the district parking lot.
Bullshit. Salazar is best friends with Lopez. Lopez had his hand in that cookie jar too!
Salazar is going to sweep everything under the rug to protect Elizondo, Cesar Lopez and himself!
The FIB should be all over this! Federal funds were used to purchase this shit! And they paid hundred thousands for this crap! Request the purchase orders, invoices and checks payable to them.
THIS IS THE TIME WHEN CARLOS ELIZONDO AND CESAR LOPEZ HAD THE PLACE CALLED RICE AND BEANS RESTAURANT.
THIS PLACE SOLD BARBACOA AT THE SAME TIME THIS HAPPEN AT BISD.
LOT OF ????????????????
Bullshit. Salazar is best friends with Lopez.
FBI CAN YOU LOOK INTO THIS !
Silverio Capistran Apparently FOUND DEAD from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
I DONT'T BELIEVE THIS !
WHERE IS OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ALL THIS MESS IN BISD.
BISD is corrupt and can not be trusted to investigate themselves.
A true investigation cannot made with BISD managing and choosing "their" man.
BISD is corrupt to the max !
They all belong in jail!
You say the superintendent works? When? She had time to put together a performance starring herself, promote it and see it through. This must of obviously required "work" as you call it.
Spoiled Barbacoa goes really well with RICE and BEANS. Porque se hacen pendejos.
Have someone identify the district time that she has spent on her personal agenda. If you question her involvement in the district and how she supports our kids in all events, you should try going to your kids activities - unless they are like you and do nothing but complain? Why don't you make it a project to follow her around for one day and see how manages to keep going on and on, knowing that people like you never agree with her.
Cesar Lopez and Baldi are best buddies and just want to hide the barbacoa business to try and avoid any true investigation. Best I remember I got moer than a little sick after having some barbacoa at the Rice and Beans Restaurant.
Funny how in all of the board meetings, coach Joe loves to pump himself up by saying all is good with the BISD, keep the sports fields coming for coach Joe.
Then why beef up the Attorneys Office with more personnel and HR? G left and now they need like 10 more people at AA salaries. Or will they re-hire G again, to double-dip like all of the ex's in the BISD Glass Palace. All this personnel recycling has not done wonders, losing students. I wonder if the rod is coming back too, so much self-promotion and kissing up via the Brownsville Herald. Man, so much free time and money to gain from the BISD.
G.. ?.
I don’t know all the facts but I do know Silverio would never kill himself, please find justice for him and his kids. Please look into this and find the one responsible for his death!1
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