What wall?
Maybe this is why that judge was REALLY arrested.
Isn’t Hidalgo solidly Democrat?
Collusion, scamming and evil-doing in small town Texas?
Call the FBI!
They can show these rubes how to do it without getting caught.
If their is to be any corrupt activitiex it can only be amoung dims.
In which case it’s not illegal.
Garza described the meetings at the steakhouse where the plan was hammered out but says he’s not guilty. I don’t get it.
Had nothing to do with Trump, this was alll a decade ago. The BI writer needs to be shot and then run through a chipper.
Seriously?!
Two authors?
Pussies.
All the really good articles have at least three writers...
Who is investigating bribes and kickbacks for Boston’s ‘Big Dig’, or California’s rail to nowhere?
Add your list of suspect projects:
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So typical, and what I saw in a similar government funded construction project in the 1990’s was flocks of Democrat birds of prey picking the bones of every cent they could steal from the taxpayers.
Democrats are a species of Vulture.
This all happened starting before or in 2007, was obviously part of the Secure Fence Act and contracts were out under the Bush administration, likely continued in some form or was being completed under the Obama administration. It has just taken all this time for the corruption to come to light and lawsuits to be filed.
The article was written as it was with no dates of when all this played out to give the impression this has something to do with President Trump. What a sleazy reporter!! No intent to inform, only to confuse something that happened years ago and lay it on the Trump administration!
If I had to guess I would say this from 2016 was used by this reporter for most of this story:
NOVEMBER 29, 2016 4B Drainage district lawsuit MONITOR EDITORIAL It’s taken years to get to this point, and undoubtedly it could take years more for this case to go forward, but it appears that Hidalgo County offi cials have fi nally put into motion a possible lawsuit against former Drainage District Manager Godfrey Garza in connection with $3.73 million in commission fees that his company, Integ Inc., earned while he worked for the county. In 2015, Corpus Christi lawyer Michael Lee, who was hired by Hidalgo County Commissioners as an independent investigator, issued a report that found Integ was paid $3.73 million in commission fees for the border levee project, which involved federal and local funds from a $100 million county bond issue. And earlier this month, Lee issued another report in which he found a confl ict of interest regarding contracts awarded to Integ Corp., and to Valley Data Collection Specialist Inc., which Garza’s wife, Annie Garza, served as president and director, and which received contracts of $1.1 million from the drainage district. County Judge Ramon Garcia, who chairs the Hidalgo County Drainage District Board, has long publicly stated that he believes Godfrey Garza should not have been entitled to any such commissions while working as director of the district and overseeing contracts and its funds. Garcia was not in offi ce in 2007 when Garza’s management contract with the county was amended and adjusted to allow a 1.5 percent construction commission to Integ, in addition to a monthly $9,500 salary paid to Integ, according to the contract, which The Monitor has reviewed. That change came after construction of the border wall — the Hidalgo County Border Infrastructure Improvement Project — was ordered using $100 million in taxpayer funds. Earlier this year, Garza fought attempts to be deposed on these allegations, prompting The Monitor’s editorial board to demand he answer the questions. Last week, Hidalgo County Commissioners (who make up the Drainage District Board) voted to “hire a lawyer to proceed to enforce and prosecute any and all remedies that are available to the district,” Garcia said. Commissioners went into executive session for almost an hour over this issue and when they fi nally emerged they agreed to hire a lawyer on a contingency fee basis — meaning the lawyer will only be paid if the county collects on the case. “The district is not going to be out any more money,” Garcia vowed. We hope so and we hope that whoever is hired in the upcoming weeks will help the district to collect on whatever it is due. Furthermore, we hope this case will serve as an example to all area elected boards on how they must act with scrupulous intent when awarding contracts with taxpayers’ money.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/286310005/
OMG! A drainage district official (insert your choice of METRO, County Judge, whatever) guilty of bribes and malfeasance? Please tell me it isn’t so. /s
Just another day in South Texas.