For the past few weeks now, FBI agents and investigators from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brownsville have been seen bringing in folks for "debriefings" dealing with the vote harvesting during the last Democratic primary and runoff elections.
And sources close to the Cameron County Elections Administrator's Office have said that agents had been there looking through the records of people who had requested mail-ballot applications
that would later be used to cast ballots from home by elderly and health and mentally-impaired voters.
In fact, all indications point to a federal effort to finally direct their resources and man(person)power at the brazen vote harvesting political machines that have virtually guaranteed certain candidates who toe the line victory in Democratic primaries.
"I figure that the feds finally have enough personnel to assign to these cases after they got through the bulk of the judicial corruption and racketeering cases in the local courts," said a court watcher. "I heard that there were several people who were on the sidelines of the action who were asked to come into the federal courthouse for a debriefing."
In fact, at least two sources have told El Rrrun-Rrun that politiqueros and politiqueras identified with the vote-harvesting machine that delivers the votes to those political candidates allied with Cameron County Pct. 2 Ernie Hernandez and his wife Norma and daughter JP 2-2 Erin Hernandez have been targeted by investigators.In that primary, Erin Hernandez Garcia had lost by some 500 votes and ended up winning with less than 200 during the runoff. In the graphic above, the voter assistant who hauled in the elderly voters in rented vans is identified as Joey Garza, an Hernandez operative who also signed his name on countless mail-in ballots.
One source west as far as to say that he understood that a federal jury had already considered the evidence and issued indictments against at least a half-dozen Hernandez political operatives.
After the last Democratic primary and the runoff between Erin Hernandez and Yolanda Begum, Begum's attorneys were ready to introduce evidence they said proved that Hernandez machine operatives had repeatedly committed voter abuse and fraud by hauling in unwilling elderly and mentally-impaired voters in vans. They also said they had evidence showing that others had fraudulently signed mail-in applications for elderly and illiterate voters and had at times merely picked up the mail-in ballots and filled them in themselves favoring their candidate.
Judging by the recent activity at the federal courthouse in Brownsville, the existence of that evidence did not go unnoticed by the US Attorney's Office.
"Cuando truena el rio es que agua lleva," the Spanish saying goes. Now we'll see how many politiqueros and their masters the torrent will carry away.

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