FEDS TO INDICT FOUR MORE CAMERON COUNTY OFFICIALS?

By Juan Montoya
There comes a point when mere rumor and hearsay becomes flesh.
And now, sources who events have proven credible up to now are telling us that this coming week we will see the unsealing of at least four federal indictments involving members of the judiciary and at least one elected official.
The only new details we have heard are that among those named in the indictments will be at least two district judges, one county-court-at-law judge and a female elected official.
We have been exposed to rumors of this ilk for the past two years that the prosecutors with the local U.S. Asst. Attorney's Office have busied themselves prying into judicial corruption that has involved a number of prominent attorneys.
The names of Abel Limas, Jim Solis, Ray Marchan, Joe Valle, etc., come to to mind. And then there are the names of local attorneys and judges that have emerged from testimony from the witness bench of the federal courthouse as having participated in allegedly corrupt acts. People like Charles Willette, Rene Oliveira, Eddie Treviño, etc.,
Then, of course there was Limas himself naming names of several judges from the witness stand that he said would play along with him in granting favors such 357th District Court Judge Leonel Alejandro, 138th District Judge Arturo Nelson, 444th District Judge David Sanchez, and 404th District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez.
Outgoing Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos, who denied he was a target of the corruption investigation when reports surfaced here and elsewhere, is said to be talking with the feds through his attorneys even as he fights the racketeering indictments against him.
Alejandro resigned unexpectedly last week, and Sanchez is rumored to be considering doing the same, according to sources close to the court.
Will the aggregate of the whispered rumors of our sources become true this coming week? All we can tell you until then is that there are a lot of nervous people in town today as the reports of the upcoming indictments make the rounds.