Cleaning up the corruption – Bridge official accused of embezzling 1.2 million

Feb 152008
 
 15/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 14:55 on 15/02/2008 Comments Off
Cleaning up the corruption - Bridge official accused of embezzling 1.2 million

NUEVO LAREDO – The former director of the Nuevo Laredo department that oversees the Mexican side of the World Trade Bridge has been charged with misappropriating more than $1 million in city funds. Gabriel Marín Loya, 39, was appointed head of the Fideicomiso del Puente III by then-Mayor Daniel Peña Treviño and served nearly three years, until fall 2007, near the end of Peña Treviño’s term. He was arrested Wednesday and taken to prison. On Thursday, he was taken before Judge Pedro Francisco Pérez Vázquez of the First State Criminal Court to hear the charges against him: bribery, abuse of ….Read More

Disorder in the Court – 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Feb 092008
 
 09/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:14 on 09/02/2008 Comments Off

With Tuesday being the day oral arguments are scheduled to be held in case 07-73415 (Sierra Club v FMCSA) some interesting information surfaced about the Court this case is assigned to. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has the most decisions overturned of any Court in the Federal Judiciary. Of course, this can work to both sides benefit. If FMCSA wins this round, it is likely the Plaintiff’s will appeal and vice versa. Although there is no guarantee that the Supreme Court would accept the appeal. This article by Brian T. Fitzpatrick, BRIAN T. FITZPATRICK, a professor at Vanderbilt Law ….Read More

Border fence’s legal battle grows

Feb 082008
 
 08/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:17 on 08/02/2008 Comments Off

The battle over the border fence continued Thursday with more landowners finding themselves sued by the government for access to their land, while two landowners fired back with their own countersuit. A lawsuit by University of Texas-Brownsville Professor Eloisa Tamez and San Benito resident Benito J. Garza claims the Homeland Security Department disregarded the law by filing “declarations of taking” before negotiating a price for their land. The government sued both for six months of access to plot the fence. During a two-hour hearing before U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen on the government’s lawsuit, attorney Peter Schey said two acts ….Read More

Tancredo using death of Border Patrol agent to push agenda

Jan 242008
 
 24/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:37 on 24/01/2008 5 Responses »
Tancredo using death of Border Patrol agent to push agenda

Tancredo should be ashamed of using the death of this agent to push forward his on short sighted agenda. At least he’s out of the field for the White House. Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson also.

Cross Border Trucking – The inmates finally control the asylum!

Jan 072008
 
 07/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:15 on 07/01/2008 Comments Off

My little web-bots have been busy bringing to our attention the stupidity spewing from the mouths of the opponents of the Mexican Cross Border Program, and it continues to amaze me that folks actually believe this stuff. But then, America, long ago, forgot how to think for itself. So what’s been happening since before Christmas when the Bush Administration chose to follow the law, as it is written, and abide by an agreement that we made in 1992, where we agreed to allow Mexican carriers equal access to our highways? Let’s take a look. International Brotherhood of Teamsters It was ….Read More

FMCSA declares Tornado Bus Company “Imminent Hazard”, suspends authority

Dec 292007
 
 29/12/2007  Posted by PMC at 09:51 on 29/12/2007 Comments Off
FMCSA declares Tornado Bus Company "Imminent Hazard", suspends authority

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 – The bus company involved in a fatal crash in Arkansas last month has been declared an “imminent hazard” by the Federal Motor Safety Administration (FMCSA), and must immediately cease all commercial operations. The order was served to Tornado Bus Co., Inc., of Dallas, Texas, by FMCSA officials on Dec. 21, 2007. “Based upon your present state of unacceptable safety compliance and your failure to adequately establish safety management systems and oversee your drivers’ duty status and hours-of-service (HOS), your motor carrier operation poses an ‘imminent hazard’ to public safety,” the FMCSA document stated.

Ramos & Campeon – Loya Spin machine going “balls to the wall”!

Nov 302007
 
 30/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 19:57 on 30/11/2007 11 Responses »
Ramos & Campeon - Loya Spin machine going "balls to the wall"!

The spin machine of Joe Loya, father in law of convicted felon and former Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos is kicking into high gear as the time nears Monday for the appeal of their conviction to be heard before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. This would be a non issue and these two felons would be quietly serving their sentence were it not for the daddy in laws money. This was a point raised by the trial judge when she admonished Mr Loya about his attempts to influence public opinion during the trial.

FMCSA files response to Mexican truck suit in 9th Circuit

Nov 202007
 
 20/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 22:39 on 20/11/2007 Comments Off

SAN FRANCISCO – The Department of Transportation on Monday filed its response to petitions seeking to halt the NAFTA cross-border trucking demonstration program with Mexico. In its response, DOT basically argues that neither the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) nor the Sierra Club — lead petitioners in the consolidated actions — demonstrates “the injury in fact” or “the particularized harm” necessary for Article III standing and federal court intervention. It was filed here with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Lawmakers press AG nominee on convicted felons Ramos and Campeon

Oct 172007
 
 17/10/2007  Posted by PMC at 07:14 on 17/10/2007 Comments Off

WASHINGTON — Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey is under pressure from some in Congress to review the case of two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug dealer. Forty-five lawmakers, led by Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., sent a letter to Mukasey on Tuesday contending that previous reviews of the prosecution of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean were not “fair and unbiased.”

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