It had been speculated by courthouse observers that Sorola had called a hearing today to reconsider the Temporary Restraining Order he issued Wednesday stopping the Greater Brownsville Incentive Corporation from hiring San Antonio Toyota executive Mario Lozoya.
However, no action was taken in open court and no record exists of the remarks between the judge and lawyers for plaintiff Nurith Galonsky, a member and secretary of the GBIC board, and defense attorneys for the majority of the board who voted for Lozoya.
Galonsky and board member John Cowen voted against approving the five-year contract with Lozoya. The majority - chairman and city commissioner Cesar De Leon, Cameron County Treasurer David BetanoCurt and board member Jessica Tetreau-Kaifa - voted to approve it.
Citing the urgency of the matter at hand, the court issued the TRO and scheduled a hearing on the matter next Wednesday saying that Galonsky had claimed that allowing Lozoya to start work Friday at the GBIC would cause the plaintiffs to suffer irreparable harm.
In the TRO, the court said that it was taking the action ex parte despite not having heard the defendants' side on the matter because of the urgency of the issue.
Usually, the plaintiffs' attorneys inform the defendants' attorneys of filings out of courtesy or upcoming legal actions in court against their clients. This time Galonsky's attorneys did not and the court did not hear the other side.
But a review of the TRO petition indicates that Galonsky, despite being the secretary of the GBIC board, attached a 2012 version of the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) by-laws they alleged prevented the GBIC board from hiring a director. Neither the plaintiffs nor their attorneys told the court that they were from the BCIC, not the GBIC, or that the GBIC had updated their bylaws in 2017.
The obsolete bylaws of the BCIC have been published online and have been used to assert that the GBIC board majority acted illegally. The board was guided by a professional head-hunting firm which vetted all the candidates and recommend the best candidate and the recommendation was Lozoya.
That, and other issues, are to be aired on Wednesday.
11 comments:
Who has the biggest black book wins, they are all corupt.
Shitty bickering in a shitty town. Everybody gets in the way of fucking progress! Ya, bola de babosos!
Read the petition before you spew your rumors and innuendos.
By the way, is the TRO in place, or not? It is!!!
Your bogus deflection of the true issues is weak, at best. Do you really think that accidentally attaching the wrong exhibit is, somehow, a legitimate defense to the allegations in the petition?
Your allegiance to the true culprit of this fiasco, Mike Hernandez, who screwed up everything by trying to get his buddy on the public tit, is misplaced.
Give it up!!!
They're fucked.
The real issues:
Authority to hire an Executive Director (look at the bylaws, there is none)
TOMA violations in the notices of the meetings (look at the meeting notices. Can you tell they were going to hire an ED and what the terms were.)
TOMA violations as to "walking" quorums. (Jessica, Cesar and David are crooked, because they decided this employment contact, secretly, in violation of TOMA, before the meeting. You enable these crooks by posting bogus apologies for them.) (You're better than that)
Corporate ultra vires acts of trying to employ Rene Oliveira, as attorney for GBIC, without any authority. (We know Luis is worthless. He and Mark "it's legal" Sossi are the real blame for allowing this to happen. They probably never even read the bylaws, which don't provide for an Executive Director for GBIC, regardless of which ones were filed with the pleadings.)
Jessica and Mark are the ones who set up the present illegal structure of the organization. She was Chair and he was Counsel. Cesar was on the board, but took control, later, probably because he realized what an imbecile Jessica is.
Cesar and Luis Hernandez (Mike's cousin) continued the illegal organization and manipulated GBIC, perverting it into a tool for Carlos Marin and Mike Hernandez. (If Luis is smart, he will disclose to authorities, the roles that Marin and Hernandez played in this fiasco and maybe save himself, because this is one of the biggest fuck-ups Brownsville has seen in years)
The Public should demand that Cesar, Jessica and David be removed from GBIC and that GBIC be dissolved. The money can be used for better purposes. Giving Marin and Hernandez a public tit is not in the best interests of the City.
This is the result of the culture of corruption (that Mike Hernandez, supposedly, wanted to combat, e.g. OP 1033) in our city, that has lead to the ambivalence of the public in who governs us.
We are allowing imbeciles and amateurs to rule our lives. Don't go along with this.
VOTE OUT:
JESSICA, CESAR AND DAVID (they suck)
Viva Bronsbil
We get what we elect be it good or bad, so remember next time you go out to vote
Welcome to Brownsville ML.
The Black Mamba Rene Oliveira now wants GBIC now he is out of Austin. What has happened to the GBIC audit? Are they waiting for the Scumbag Jason Hilts to sanitize the books, just another scam, when you need to spend $300k to get a yes man to take the fall, you know that your in deep shit.
Fire the whole GBIC board and let a new board of three firms of accountants handle tbe money for development, then there will be no more Black Magic trips. Jason Hilts will have to prove his expense before he looks for more Black Magic.
Tony Martinez again has someone else carrying the water for him. Tony has been a deplorable mayor. He has failed to provide any leadership to this struggling community, and has clearly demonstrated that he expects all city employees to bend a knee for him. He doesn't want this hire because he doesn't think he can control him. He wants to hire some flunky that will put a Tony Martinez stamp on every action. In the meantime, this community flounders without leadership and management.
"Do you really think that accidentally attaching the wrong exhibit is, somehow, a legitimate defense to the allegations in the petition?" It is if evidence matters. If I'm prosecuting someone for illegally carrying a gun but I produce a gun someone else was carrying to prove it I'd say I don't have much of a case. In this instance, I don't have a clue whether they did good or bad but I know that if you are going to accuse them of breaking the rules you better be able to show what the current rules are.
What a mess. So if the bylaws don't allow the hire then the poor guy offered the job (signed contract?)
can sue, right?
This is nothing but a big cover up scam, to hide the cover up, of the BEDC credit card abuse, and the scam in the BEDC travel scam. Now that Lasoya is out, call in the Fed's, and see who will take the fall, for how much. Now that the BEDC contract is canceled, see who is the first to sing, to protect themselves.
I have the biggest black book in Brownsville, let me handle Jason Hilts and he will start to sing before he is asked. I know that he will see Armando Villalobos very soon. I am the only untouchable in Brownsville, so Hilts you done your crime, now do your time.
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