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MCALLEN, Texas — A developing federal investigation has brought up
allegations that a Hidalgo County Commissioner paid for votes with bags of
cocaine while other politicians paid for votes also with cash, cigarettes,
marijuana and beer.
Court records obtained by Breitbart Texas from the arrest of two women
accused of buying votes show that during the democratic primaries in 2012, a
campaign manager for a Hidalgo County Commissioner who said that during the
campaign, he bought $50 worth of cocaine, commonly known as an 8-ball and
split it up in order to give it to the two women so they could use it to
entice voters.
Earlier this week Belinda Solis and Veronica Salazar went before U.S.
Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby who formally charged them with vote buying and
set their bond at $10,000.
The two women were part of a large year and a half long FBI investigation
into election corruption in Hidalgo County.
The investigation began in January 2013 when agents met with a campaign
manager for a Hidalgo County Commissioner, who told the agents that he
bought cocaine so his campaign workers could give it to the voters in
exchange for their votes. The court records do not identify the commissioner
by name; however they state that he ran during the 2012 primaries. The
women were paid campaign workers, also known as politiqueras, who targeted
low income areas and elderly individuals enticing them to vote for a
particular candidate.
Over the course of the investigation, agents met with the two women who told
the agents that they had received the cocaine from the campaign manager who
is only identified on court records as campaign worker 1 and then gave it
to the voters. The women also told the agents that they gave cocaine to
voters during the school board election in Donna ISD in addition to cash,
beer, cigarettes, and marijuana.
Political corruption primarily by democrats in South Texas has been exposed
by federal agencies, shedding light into other cases of vote buying,
contract rigging by school boards, bribery money laundering, and other
criminal cases.
Eight months ago, Donna ISD School board president Alfredo Lugo hanged
himself after federal agents arrested another group of politiqueras for
buying votes using cash, beer and cigarettes and the school board was
mentioned.
One of the public figures to be exposed in recent years is former Hidalgo
County Sheriff, Lupe Trevino, who is preparing to serve a 5-year-prison term
for taking money from a Mexican drug lord and depositing the cash into his
campaign funds.
In recent weeks, the former Mayor of Progreso, his father and his brother
who ran the school board ended up getting sentenced for running a scheme
where they controlled all of the contracts that the city and the school
board gave out and demanding cash payments from anyone looking to do
business with them. |
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