It took the guests at Enrique Escobedo's fundraiser at Joe Kenney's Cobbleheads by surprise when they heard the announcement.
Rosie Sotelo, the longtime civil cases manager at Cameron County District Clerk Aurora de la Garza's had just announced she was running for her boss's position when her term expires next year. Simple deduction will tell us that Aurorita – at the heart of that and many other controversies – will end her 34-year career leaving behind a trial of suspicion and a county building in San Benito named after her and County Clerk Joe Rivera.That brings us back to Sotelo, the civil cases administrator at the same district clerk's office that has been at the center of the judicial corruption trial of disgraced (and convicted) 404th District Court Judge Abel Limas, former State Rep. Jim Solis, and others.
During the course of the probe into the judicial corruption, we learned that Sotelo had been interviewed at least three times by federal agents probing into the claims by Solis that he had "someone" at the district clerk's office who wold make sure the high-yield wrongful death and railroad accident cases were steered to Limas.
Has Sotelo, by announcing her candidacy now be signalling that she has been given a clean bill of political health by the feds? And does this mean that De la Garza, by not announcing her own candidacy for the position, have forgone seeking the office she has held for the past three decades have traded not running in exchange for not getting charged in the case?
Most Cameron County residents have been wondering how it was that De la Garza has managed to survive so many controversies including the embezzlement conviction of her son Joey from Sunshine Haven hospice, the alleged obstruction of justice in the case involving her clerk at the child support payment collection office, etc.
If the feds have cut a deal that lets her walk in exchange for not running and given Sotelo a green light to run for her cooperation, that will leave many observers scratching their heads at this new twist in the dispensation of justice in good ol' Cameron County.
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