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

Feuding in the ranks of the vigilantes – Second Minuteman Group in Bitter Split

Oct 092007
 
 09/10/2007  Posted by PMC at 05:55 on 09/10/2007 Comments Off

For the second time this year, a major American nativist group has splintered amidst a welter of accusations of financial improprieties and mismanagement.Dissatisfied rumblings from officials in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) turned to a roar this May, when MCDC President Chris Simcox responded to questions about his financial accountability and “micromanagement” of MCDC with a purge. Calling their request for a May 19 meeting an attempted “palace coup,” Simcox, well known for his authoritarian leadership style, peremptorily fired three national officers, one regional leader, and 14 of MCDC’s 27 state leaders. The ousted leaders responded with a public ….Read More

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