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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive..."
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive..."
And then you get indicted.
The Cameron County courthouse is abuzz with the indictments and arrest of McAllen attorney Nacer Aounallah and five other defendants, including a notary public and other confederates, who – if the charges filed against them by the the Cameron County District Attorney's Office prove true – knowingly engaged in criminal activity to forge an affidavit and submit it to a district court.
Court records indicate that Aounallah – now free on $40,000 bond – was indicted by a grand jury this June 24, 2026 with his fellow defendants Ron Chamberlain, his law office employee, alleged false witnesses Robert Foehringher and Erica Lynn Peña, Esmeralda Gonzales and notary public Maria Candelaria Medina, on one count of engaging in criminal activity, three counts of forgery of a government instrument (a false affidavit), and one count of aggravated perjury.
The charges in the criminal case (2026-DCR-01686), stem, innocuously enough, from an affidavit filed by his divorce attorney to a trial court cause styled 2025-DCL-02175, in Cameron County before 404th District Court presided by State District Judge Ricardo Adobbati. The affidavit was provided by Nacer Aounallah to his attorney and represented as having been made and signed by Nacer Aounallah's wife Dennis.
Records indicate that part of the record in that case indicates that Aounallah was arrested by Palm Valley Police March 1, 2025, on a charge of assaulting a 14-year-old child (his son). Aounallah posted a $25,000 cash surety bond and was released.
District Attorney Office investigators presented evidence to the jury that the notarized affidavit purportedly signed by his wife was false and included alleged self admissions and false statements where she admitted that:
1. The charges of assault against his son were false.
2. That she was having an affair with the Palm Valley officer who arrested him on the assault charge
3. That she was consuming and possessing cocaine with the officer's knowledge.
An affidavit for warrant of arrest filed by CCDA's Office investigator Albert Toriz, June 3, indicates that Aounallah's co-defendants in the organized criminal activity and forgery case – through interviews and videotaped recordings –have admitted that they knew the affidavit filed in court April 2025 had not been made or signed by his wife Dennis and that she had not been present when the document was signed by someone else.
Also introduced into Toriz's affidavit were text messages and consensual recorded conversations between Aounallah and some of the defendants where he allegedly coaches some of them on how to respond to police and on just giving police copies of the false affidavits they signed at his direction to deceive the court.
"Based on the Affiant's (Toriz's) training, experience, interviews, recordings, and evidence, Nacer Aounalah orchestrated, authored, or produced the false...affidavit...and had it notarized with the assistance of Esmeralda Gonzalez and Maria Candelaria Medina, (and allowed) his attorney Ruth Serra, to introduce the fasle affidavit knowing it was false. (He) further allowed his attorney...to call Ron Chamberlain to stand and be sworn under oath...knowing that (he) was also committing aggravated perjury and lying to the court."
1 comment:
Is that a photo of Nacer? Looks nothing like his jail photo
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