Posted on 03/05/2021 5:04:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On Friday morning, 26-year-old Devon Portillo went before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Alpine, Texas, and pleaded guilty to one charge of lying to federal investigators as part of a plea agreement. Portillo remains free on bond pending a sentencing hearing.
The case began over the summer of 2020 when Portillo ran as a Republican to unseat Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson. Portillo’s bid was unsuccessful. According to prosecutors, the charge stems from Portillo lying to FBI agents during an investigation into a racist social media message published to the candidate’s account. Once the old posts came to light, Portillo accused the incumbent sherriff’s political team of fabricating screenshots of the post and even suggested his account might have been hacked prior to publishing the offensive content. Portillo eventually admitted to writing the hateful messages.
At the height of the controversy, in June 2020, Marfa Public Radio reported on a petition to remove Portillo from the ballot.
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Posed as a Republican.
Sounds like an idiot but a bigger question is why is the FBI investigating “racist” social media posts?
How else are you going to find the white supremacists that they tell us are the real threat, not the Burning Looting Mobs that are burning down entire blocks of cities in a “mostly peaceful protest”.
I agree. How is that a crime?
The FBI must be running out of fake nooses to ‘investigate’.
5 years for lying to the FBI?
IIRC the FBI can lie to someone in custody...Like General Flynn.
I dont think that lying to the FBI should be an actionable offense.
Oh how far we have fallen! In the good ol’ days,(Texas Ranger)Joaquin Jackson would have just run him down and shot him.
If lying is a crime virtually every person running for public office is GUILTY!
More FBI ‘even-handedness’...
FBI = tumor.
Don’t ever talk to any LE agency rep.
They can lie to you, you can’t lie to them.
Why would anyone talk to these creeps?
If he was required to be contacted by F Troop, he should have done so through a lawyer.
While certainly understandable, the life long desire of a new, low-level or even mid-level agent to be a ‘G-man’ is now unfortunately in conflict with their sworn oath to the US Constitution considering how corrupt this organization now is.
Those are pretty bad but what does the FBI have to do with it? How and why did they end up investigating him?
The FBI is now doing the Democrats opposition research.
The FBI really had no place here. But the central lesson here. Had he never spoken to the FBI, I mean not a single word, he could not have been charged with a thing.
Never, under any circumstances speak to the FBI.
Never vote guilty if they are involved in a case. No matter the evidence, no matter the charge... not guilty.
“No matter the evidence, no matter the charge... not guilty.”
Amen. I decided a long time ago that until Hillary is cooling her heels in the big house, if I were on a jury ... everybody walks.
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