By Juan Montoya
Just how true is the comment above sent to us in response to the post on Brownsville Independent School District Place 2 candidate Viro Cardenas that was published here?
As far as we can determine from the pubic record, Jaime Diez has never been arrested and charged with a crime and neither has Denise Garza.
We have posted that the record indicates that there is an enforcement action pending against Cardenas in family court and that unless he can come up with some serious money by the time of the hearing on October 23 to pay off a good chunk of the $53,000 in arrears, he might have to do some time in the county slammer. That is 11 days before the November 3 BISD election.
But he's not the only one in this year's perp-laden slate for the BISD.
Frankie Joe Olivo, running for Place 2, is Castro's nephew and blogger Jerry McHale's nephew by marriage. Olivo, court administrator for 404th District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez was charged in 2018 with stalking and sexual harassment. The victim was a married woman and a mom.
At the time, Olivo controlled the administration of a district court, a position of the highest sobriety and responsibility. Officer arrested him in court and hauled him off for booking following the issuance of the indictment by a grand jury.
He was given pre-trial diversion where the state agrees to remove the defendant from the ordinary channels of prosecution so that he may complete certain conditions. Once the defendant meets the conditions, either the prosecutor or the court will dismiss the charges.
Former Brownsville Fire Department Chief Carlos Elizondo had theft charges filed against him in 2002 after he stole a $1,500 wheelchair which were dismissed after he paid restitution. His lawyer was court-appointed Armando Villalobos before he himself was nailed for corruption and sent to the pokey. The case was before 404th District Judge Abel Limas, who is also serving time for judicial corruption.
Elizondo was found not guilty Sept. 18, 2019 of computer security breach of the Brownsville Fire Department emergency reporting system. The following October District Judge Benjamin Euresti of the 107th state District Court granted Elizondo's motion for an expunction from the record of all the offenses of which he was acquitted. The courts and state agencies were ordered to remove any records of the charges or release them to the public.
As far as we can determine from the pubic record, Jaime Diez has never been arrested and charged with a crime and neither has Denise Garza.We have posted that the record indicates that there is an enforcement action pending against Cardenas in family court and that unless he can come up with some serious money by the time of the hearing on October 23 to pay off a good chunk of the $53,000 in arrears, he might have to do some time in the county slammer. That is 11 days before the November 3 BISD election.
But he's not the only one in this year's perp-laden slate for the BISD.
Frankie Joe Olivo, running for Place 2, is Castro's nephew and blogger Jerry McHale's nephew by marriage. Olivo, court administrator for 404th District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez was charged in 2018 with stalking and sexual harassment. The victim was a married woman and a mom.At the time, Olivo controlled the administration of a district court, a position of the highest sobriety and responsibility. Officer arrested him in court and hauled him off for booking following the issuance of the indictment by a grand jury.
He was given pre-trial diversion where the state agrees to remove the defendant from the ordinary channels of prosecution so that he may complete certain conditions. Once the defendant meets the conditions, either the prosecutor or the court will dismiss the charges.
This is what happened in Olivo's case. When we tried to call up his case on the Cameron County District Clerk's public portal we came up empty and found that the court had also granted him an expunction (a la Carlos Elizondo) of the charges from his record and that all state agencies were ordered to remove them from their files. We had written about the charges way back when it happened and we went back to see what we had written then.
What we said at the time was: "We are a family blog here so we won't print the nature of the crimes listed on the indictments. Suffice to say that it involved him taking pictures of his manhood and sending them via his cell phone to a female legal staffer of a local attorney who did not solicit them."
Since media and individuals are not bound by the expunction order, we looked through our files and found his indictment neatly tucked between the indictments of convicted Cameron County DA Armando Villalobos, those of Dr. Sylvia Atkinson, and former Tamaulipas Governor Tomas Yarrington.
This is what the two charges specify. They state that Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018: "initiated communication (with victim) that had the intent to harass, annoy, alarm, or embarrass (her) and in the course of the communication make and obscene comment to wit: a photograph of a male subject's penis, and (his) conduct did cause (the victim) to feel harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended.
The second charges states also that: Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018 made an obscene comment to wit: "a message notification from the defendant that when opened showed a male subject stroking, holding, and jerking his penis around with his left hand while recording acts with an electronic device with his right hand (which caused victim to feel) harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended."
Now think about this. He is running for a position that involves placing him on a board of a school district that controls a $500 million-plus budget, the livelihood of 6,000-plus employees, and the welfare and education of more than 40,000 students.
He is now 33 and was 31 years old when these events occurred. And in his defense he says that: "As selfish as this may sound, I'm glad I went through it. It affected a lot of people but it taught me a lot. I was taught to forget the mistake but always remember the lesson."
It's only been two years ago. We don't think the victim (a married woman with children who as a legal clerk has to work with the courts) is as willing to forget as the courts or Olivo himself. And if he is elected (stranger things have happened) he could decide on the employment of BISD applicants who would have to swear that they had never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, which includes lewdness.
The employment policy of the BISD states that: "No one convicted of a felony or any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude will be considered for employment in the district...Moral turpitude is "an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private or social duties outside the accepted standards of decency and that shock the conscience of an ordinary person (i.e., public lewdness).
Who would want Olivo on the BISD board? His boss Cornejo-Lopez is currently embroiled in a federal lawsuit with the BISD over alleged violation of her daughter's civil rights. And she has never hidden her desire to land the board counsel gig on her old board. Would his presence on the board make it easier to negotiate things?
Or perhaps, as some stipulate, the Castro-Olivo-Elizondo-Cardenas majority is envisioned as a clearing house for varied vendors' interests to acquire a foothold in providing services and products – such as health services to 7,000 employees and 40,000 students – with its blessing.
COVID-19 testing, as an example, has made a pretty penny to some providers. Imagine the potential BISD market and its captive audience.
What we said at the time was: "We are a family blog here so we won't print the nature of the crimes listed on the indictments. Suffice to say that it involved him taking pictures of his manhood and sending them via his cell phone to a female legal staffer of a local attorney who did not solicit them."
This is what the two charges specify. They state that Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018: "initiated communication (with victim) that had the intent to harass, annoy, alarm, or embarrass (her) and in the course of the communication make and obscene comment to wit: a photograph of a male subject's penis, and (his) conduct did cause (the victim) to feel harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended.
The second charges states also that: Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018 made an obscene comment to wit: "a message notification from the defendant that when opened showed a male subject stroking, holding, and jerking his penis around with his left hand while recording acts with an electronic device with his right hand (which caused victim to feel) harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended."
Now think about this. He is running for a position that involves placing him on a board of a school district that controls a $500 million-plus budget, the livelihood of 6,000-plus employees, and the welfare and education of more than 40,000 students.
He is now 33 and was 31 years old when these events occurred. And in his defense he says that: "As selfish as this may sound, I'm glad I went through it. It affected a lot of people but it taught me a lot. I was taught to forget the mistake but always remember the lesson."
It's only been two years ago. We don't think the victim (a married woman with children who as a legal clerk has to work with the courts) is as willing to forget as the courts or Olivo himself. And if he is elected (stranger things have happened) he could decide on the employment of BISD applicants who would have to swear that they had never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, which includes lewdness.
The employment policy of the BISD states that: "No one convicted of a felony or any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude will be considered for employment in the district...Moral turpitude is "an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private or social duties outside the accepted standards of decency and that shock the conscience of an ordinary person (i.e., public lewdness).
Who would want Olivo on the BISD board? His boss Cornejo-Lopez is currently embroiled in a federal lawsuit with the BISD over alleged violation of her daughter's civil rights. And she has never hidden her desire to land the board counsel gig on her old board. Would his presence on the board make it easier to negotiate things?
Or perhaps, as some stipulate, the Castro-Olivo-Elizondo-Cardenas majority is envisioned as a clearing house for varied vendors' interests to acquire a foothold in providing services and products – such as health services to 7,000 employees and 40,000 students – with its blessing.
COVID-19 testing, as an example, has made a pretty penny to some providers. Imagine the potential BISD market and its captive audience.
Elizondo was found not guilty Sept. 18, 2019 of computer security breach of the Brownsville Fire Department emergency reporting system. The following October District Judge Benjamin Euresti of the 107th state District Court granted Elizondo's motion for an expunction from the record of all the offenses of which he was acquitted. The courts and state agencies were ordered to remove any records of the charges or release them to the public.
As far as Erasmo Castro, he was found guilty of forgery on April 28, 1994 and was sentenced to 10
years in the Texas Department of Corrections probated to five years by Judge Robert Garza in the 138th District Court. By a series of convoluted actions by judges in the Cameron County courts, his conviction was never finalized and he remains in the never-never land of innocence or guilt.
His latest scrape with the law involved his arrest for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) to which he pleaded guilty on February 20, 2020 and for which he was sentenced to six months in jail and placed on community supervision for 12 months.
He was also ordered to pay a $550 fine and court costs, a monthly community supervision fee of $60, to take 12 hours of DWI classes, victim classes, drug/alcohol evaluation and/or Counseling, random urine analysis once a week for 4 months and attend Alcoholic Anonymous. Castro resigned earlier this year in the aftermath of his arrest and remains on probation until February 2021 unless he gets early termination.
Atkinson has pleaded not guilty to the charges. If convicted, she faces a sentence of up to 45 years and a fine that could total $2 million, in addition to any assets subject to forfeiture, according to the indictment.
Elizondo faces board member Eddie Garcia, the retired Brownsville police officer appointed after Castro resigned in the aftermath of his arrest on the DWI.
Castro filed for the Position 5 seat currently represented by Laura Perez Reyes, who did not seek re-election. Castro’s opponent is Daniella Lopez Valdez, daughter of Cameron County Pct. 2 Commissioner Joey Lopez.
All the members of the current board except for Phil Cowen and Garcia have been subpoenaed as witnesses in Atkinson's federal bribery trial.
And then, of course, we have board counsel Baltazar Salazar who failed to expunge his record (that word again) of three felony convictions for theft but was hired by the BISD board nonetheless.
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/thirteenth-court-of-appeals/2013/13-12-00771-cv.html
And the plot, as in a melodramatic soap opera, thickens.
39 comments:
El Paya Jerry keeps defending El Frankie Olivo. Must be the pussywhipping involved. El Jerry is Frankie's tio. Orale! Ya con el pedo de corrientes, cabrones. McHale es QAnon tambien? Hijole!
Its a family affair and all are connected by the judicial system. That's where they all meet. "Oh what's your next probation date?" they asked each other.
Its getting to be like NYC there they have coffee shops next to the probation offices and they all meet there.
Sad and disgusting, Juan. Olivo should go back to Mexico, bro.
Who is paying you for this, Juan?
Sylvia Perez Atkinson also had no criminal record and she was the BIGGEST CROOK OF THEM ALL TOGETHER. She stole millions from the Children in different School Districts she has worked at. BISD was her biggest take. She gambled everything to get rick off the tax payers and is now under 6 Federal Indictments. Soon Prici Tipton and Drue Brown will join her in Federal Prison. No one running or any incumbent has any clue what they are doing in life nor have any business running a 640 million budget.
So what happens to someone who accepts and uses stolen money? Accessory to the crime? What about Balty? Why did he even qualify to the position of board attorney. Does the application for school board elections even bother to ask the question about previous criminal activity. And, if all the other board members were asked to testify in Dr. A's case, why was Philip left out?
He was right in the middle of the whole thing and would act according to how he felt about Dr. A when they voted on one of her agenda items. He is so wishy-washy about his "know-it-all" mind that people turn him off whenever he opens his mouth. I switch to the mute button on my TV when Minerva and Philip open their big untruthful mouth. Even Minerva, why does she not adhere to the 2 minute rule established by the board when telling all her lies. Why set rules if they are not going to be enforced??
Trumputo should go back to cockroach europe and take all the cockroach hillbillys back bola de mierdas
Brownsville NWS station steps in for Lake Charles
Of course they're republicans...
Yea like oklahoma pendejos
Minerva and Philip have "diarrhea of the mouth."
August 28@9:16...Were you born a moron or is this something that developed over time?!
te están poniendo los cuernos Robert Mata, abre los ojos
Speakers at the Republican National Convention are arguing that cities, mostly governed by Democrats, are a mess, and therefore voters should throw in their lot with the GOP. In fact, it is rural areas, most of them governed by Republicans, that are declining while urban areas grow, diversify, innovate and prosper.
Regardless, what Republicans should do if they want to win this election is not pit one group of Americans against another. But division is the only arrow in their quiver.
Very good reporting Mr. Montoya, the voters need to be informed of those personal characteristics of their future representatives. What if that video 🎥 gets shared with our students, parents or teachers. We need to make educated decisions before casting that vote.
Sounds like a Mexican Telenovela: BISD Un Paso Al Abismo! Get your Takis and Barrilittos ready voters. This could prove what a standout citizen you are when you cast your vote for these wonderful candidates with such outstanding qualifications. Half Billion of our hard earned tax dollars ready for the taking.
El Paya Jerry is doing his damdest to act as if he hates Trump. He writes about him everyday! Why? QAnon McHale is his new name here!
" I was not involved in any way with the Covid testing scam with the city of Brownsville."- Jessica Tetrau
Baltazar and Miguel Salinas are the lowest of BISD attorneys. Both are related and the new board should oust them come Nov. Laura P Reyes got a lot of perks and accommodations from Baltazar. She approved his rehire. Sylvia threw everything down the pipe for 10k. The BISD Superintendent is already looking for another District for 31k. The District is out of control with everyone doing whatever they want. The Superintendent lost control internally and with accountability. All the Superintendent does is get parent survey monkeys. Can BISD Superintendent do a food survey?
If these are the people running for offices here in Brownsville and that is all we got, BROWNSVILLE WE HAVE A PROBLEM>
Erasmo your family are talking again and they are tired of you embarrassing them. You were arrested in Mexico for child molestation and arrested in Harris County for indecency with a child. In Harris county the charges were dropped because your family harassed the single mother who had no money for a lawyer. You were predator toward a poor child who didn't know better. You idiota, you imbecil, you rodent. You slam bloggers but you were once one and can't take it that you are the topic of conversation. You make it easy for the blogs to attack you just like it was easy for you to prey on innocent poor kids. Pendejo
Ta medio maniaco este vato.
Keep voting (D)
Charlie Atkinson
The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. You have a pedophile and a sexual stalker who want to be around our kids and have access to a 650 million dollar budget? They can't be trusted. For how much they spend their time ragging on my sister they never humbled themselves by looking in the mirror and deciding not to judge people. Frankie, I thought it was 10 years ago, Dam only a year and a half ago? sorry man, you are not ready for a grown up position.
TEA close this joint down NOW, the children are in DANGER, PARENTS sent them to a private school.
Full of perverts, scammers, wanna bees, theives, drunks, unqualified personnel, out of towners with hidden agendas, you name it BISD has it.
CLOSE IT DOWN, SENT YOUR CHILDREN TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL!!!
Que pena ajena que este bato ande ensenando sus partecitas y se las rechazen por chiquitas y aun asi quiera representar a un distrito escolar.
Now you know why the school of choice is so important.
And this is why Brownsville contributes to be the laughing stock of the valley...what a joke.
Puro escrape! Pura basura!
We need to put higher standard on who we vote not only BISD but all levels up to the presidential candidate. We the people have lowered the standards and many of us for compadrismo and what is in it for our gain that's why it's the way it is. Dr. Gutierrez hasn't supplied the ppe equipment for classified and he is leaving the decision of working remotely to campus admin. Only teachers and counselors are being aloud to work remotely. Teachers and counselors and admins don't forget the importance of classified because without them there is many things you can't do. Dr Gutierrez enough with your shit and pro IDE the safety equipment needed to do the job.
August 28, 2020 at 10:06 AM
Seems like you are the only one offended here racist republican assh*** kiss ass.
Question is Montoya, did Cornhole grant the expunction for Olivo? She would like men that showed their winkies on photo! No wonder this biden pervert got deferred adjudication? Then to be all the expunction?
August 28, 2020 at 10:06 AM
KISS ASS RACIST REPUBLICAN - Are you so hurt? European cockroach gringo..
Juan sounds like "Ratas are us Inc." lol
Erasmo Castro is a Trump lover who believes in the pandemic hoax that has caused lots of unnecessary deaths if only if he was Presidential and listened to the scientist. Erasmo is on probation running for office. Can the public actually trust me that he won't slip up and get arrested? Are some of his supporters really gonna risk him embarrassing our city? He already failed them once. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!!! Pendejos!!!
The loser Sheriff and his Reyna brothers are supporting Denise Garza. Another corrupt person to control since the boyfriend is the brown noser Sgt Robert Mata. They still think they can control.
Vote against anyone that the following Facebook accounts support: Cameron County News, Brownsville Candidates andElect Javier Reyna. They are all controlled by Javier Reyna and his minions.
@4:48pm & 4:51 pm ... obviously you must be a reject from the SO. Hmmmm what did you do to get fired? Lol
The Reyna's have no interest in the BISD elections. They have no interest in supporting or endorsing anyone. Are you mad because you tried to take the Sgt. Exam and you failed. Just move along and get a life. ...
Most people that leave the Sheriff office whether voluntary or involuntary do well for themselves. You must be the exception..So what happened to you.?
so are the Reyna boys headed over to the BISD Police dept now and thats why they are supporting denise garza? just asking?
Erasmo, Olivo, Elizondo,Leal, Cardenas have so much hatred towards the school board and disrespects everyone by being a Bully with the name calling. So immature on their behalf. You all keep forgetting that Castro sat on that board and approved many items. He fails to tell you that. This slate/Empire that Castro is trying to build will crumble. It will crumble so fast that they will not know what happen. They are all full of lies. He has followers that are probably not registered to vote or much less can't vote because they live outside of Brownsville area. They are all Felons. Some are still waiting for pending matters.
Castro, Olivo and Cardenas live with a parent. so they are not even homeowners so they don't pay taxes. Some of these guys only pay taxes from everyday items they purchase or payroll taxes. Some not even payroll taxes since they don't hold a job!!
But you are convinced that this Slate is the best for BISD. We need a better Board and we as BISD, students, teachers, staff and parents should be demanding better. But at this point the infamous slate: Castro, Olivo, Elizondo, Leal and Cardenas are not the ones to lead BISD to Victory. They will head for disaster. they will disgrace BISD far worse then what we have.
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