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U.S. lawmaker seeks answers after State Department error releases Mexican fugitive from Texas jail
foxnews.com ^ | 2/15/12 | Jana Winter

Posted on 02/15/2012 11:17:53 AM PST by ColdOne

A former Mexican government official wanted for embezzling millions was arrested in Texas this month, then promptly ordered released by the State Department in a case that has one lawmaker demanding answers.

A day after pulling rank on Smith County, Texas, law enforcement officials, the State Department rescinded the order. But Hector Hernandez Javier Villarreal was gone by then. Now Rep. Louie Gohmert is calling for congressional hearings to find out what happened.

"That's the question: What are the federal officials thinking? The State Department is screwing up by ordering locals to release these fugitives," Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com. "I don't know if it's corruption or incompetence, but it's one or the other and in my experience with federal government, I'm guessing it's incompetence."

Villarreal, the former secretary executive of the Tax Administration Service of Coahulia, Mexico, was arrested there in November on charges relating to an alleged scheme involving embezzling millions of dollars from the Mexican government. He posted $1 million cash bond, got himself a U.S. visa and then skipped town.

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1 posted on 02/15/2012 11:17:57 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
What are the federal officials thinking?

Wow! Has anyone accused anyone in the Obama Administration of thinking before??

2 posted on 02/15/2012 11:20:48 AM PST by pikachu (After Monday and Tuesday, even the calender goes W T F !)
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To: pikachu

Mexican Super PAC to spend a $1 Million in a community near you.


3 posted on 02/15/2012 11:30:32 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: ColdOne

It was no error. They did this on purpose.


4 posted on 02/15/2012 11:30:32 AM PST by grandpa jones
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To: grandpa jones
Agreed. But they do these things with the full knowledge that the ladies' club otherwise known as the GOP won't do anything about it.
5 posted on 02/15/2012 11:35:11 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (The Chicago Way isn't the American Way.)
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To: ColdOne
A former Mexican government official wanted for embezzling millions was arrested in Texas this month, then promptly ordered released ... calling for congressional hearings to find out what happened.

We can all guess exactly what happened. This criminal has a little less of the money he embezzled, yet another corrupt petty bureaucrat in Obama's administration has a little more than the salary he wasn't earning to begin with, and the system will continue to do what it has always done.

6 posted on 02/15/2012 11:36:04 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: ColdOne

lets see...
the mexican drug cartels have tons of money
we refuse to solidify the border, so they can continue coming into the USA.
we supply them with guns
we give them FBI contacts
and we let them skate from prison.

am I the only one who connects the dots here and see that the mexican drug cartels own someone(s) in the administration?


7 posted on 02/15/2012 11:46:01 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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8 posted on 02/15/2012 11:47:49 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: grandpa jones

Dude was treating like any other illegal.


9 posted on 02/15/2012 11:51:47 AM PST by spawn44
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To: ColdOne

Thinking this was an error is a foolish presumption.


10 posted on 02/15/2012 6:48:20 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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