Operation Poisoned Pawns is an FBI investigation into public corruption in El Paso Texas that began around 2004. The FBI nationally began focusing on public corruption cases around 2004 as it shifted its focus from terrorism after 9/11 towards political crimes. Several search warrants were served on El Paso officials on May 2007 at their […]
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Poisoned Pawns Link Chart
(broken links corrected on July 28, 2018) As I wrote yesterday, I have been developing a link chart of everyone involved in the Poisoned Pawns public corruption investigation. Because many of the court records remain sealed I have had to plug in names on a “best guess” basis. As you can see from the chart, […]
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Poisoned Pawns Investigation into Public Corruption: Three Part Series
As many of you already know I have been working on connecting the dots between many individuals, the public corruption scandals and the drug violence in Juárez for many years. I have been creating a time line of events going as far back as the 1960’s. I have also been creating many link charts of […]
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Third Court of Appeals Schedules Email Hearing
The Third Court of Appeals has scheduled a hearing to determine whether Stephanie Townsend Allala’s request for Steve Ortega’s emails will go forward. The appeals court has scheduled a hearing on the case for May 22, 2014. As usual, you won’t be reading about this important issue anywhere else because apparently the local new media […]
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A Look at El Paso’s Economy
As some of you may have noticed, I have been working on infographics lately. Today I offer you the first in a series of The Economics of El Paso – It’s All Good. I hope you realize that “it’s all good” is a play on the city’s marketing slogan because the reality is that El […]
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Are EPISD Budget Woes the Vanguard to an Economic Tsunami?
As you all know by now, El Paso’s largest school district is facing budget woes because of a decline in student enrollments. You also know that the trustees of the El Paso Independent School District were disbanded and a board of managers were installed because of the cheating scandal led by Lorenzo Garcia. The school […]
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Where is the Ann Morgan Lilly Police Report?
As predicted by many, the investigation into an allegation of a second assault by Ann Morgan Lilly has seemingly disappeared into oblivion never to be spoken of again. You might remember that back in October I alleged that the El Paso Police Department keeps a special police unit to protect certain individuals from public scrutiny. You […]
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School Board Members Intend to Resign December 31 to Avoid Financial Disclosure
According to an April 3, 2014 (actually it is dated 2012 but I assume that was a typo) request for a Texas Attorney General Opinion submitted by Jo Anne Bernal, the County has been advised that “some local school board trustees do not want to disclose financial information as required of state officers by the […]
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Surprised by Jeb Bush, why? The Republicans Have Done More for Immigration than the Democrats
I sometimes wonder if I’m wrong that the public perception of issues are distorted in the general population. Jeb Bush’s recent comments reaffirmed for me that the reality is often obscured by the rhetoric and the misinformation perpetuated by the news media. What Jeb Bush said about immigration really should not surprise anyone that has […]
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Luis Aguilar, the El Paso Highfaluting and Bumbling Idiots
Some of you may be aware that David Crowder has been reporting on the case of Emily Garcia, the former El Paso Boys and Girls Club executive director who is currently in jail. What initially caught my attention about the case was that David Crowder asked Luis Aguilar about the status of the case shortly […]