(Ed.'s Note: Often, when the conventional mainstream media reports on the legal travails of an elected official, they have a habit of focusing on the personal side of the news such as how the defendant looked, or what evidence the prosecutors moved to include, or even exclude. Sometimes this does an injustice to the coverage on whether there was any merit to the charges, whether there was prosecutorial misconduct, or if justice was served. Below is a report by a lay person on the recently concluded change of venue motion granted by a visiting judge to indicted Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector Tony Yzaguirre. If this account is factual, Yzaguirre's prosecution may come back and bite the DA's Office and the Texas Department of Safety investigators in their kiesters.)
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Lie 1: Texas Department of Public Safety investigator Sgt. Rene O. acknowledged that in his affidavit statements that were used in orders to have Mr. Yzaguirre arrested and have search warrants issued, he stated that vehicles used to do title transfers we're junked and that they were surrendered to the Texas Department of Transportation. In fact, it was found that these vehicles were never junked nor were they never surrendered to the department of motor vehicles nor the department of public safety.
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LIE 4: DPS investigator Rene O. affidavit stated that other vehicles were done and or transferred by Mr. Yzaguirre's staff without the proper information. In fact, it was found that those titles were rejected by Mr. Yzaguirre's staff and given back to the CI Mel Sosa and in return given back to DPS investigator Rene O.
Lie 1: Texas Department of Public Safety investigator Sgt. Rene O. acknowledged that in his affidavit statements that were used in orders to have Mr. Yzaguirre arrested and have search warrants issued, he stated that vehicles used to do title transfers we're junked and that they were surrendered to the Texas Department of Transportation. In fact, it was found that these vehicles were never junked nor were they never surrendered to the department of motor vehicles nor the department of public safety.
LIE 2: According to DPS investigator Rene O., his affidavit states that money used to bribe Mr. Yzaguirre to get vehicles transferred were left on his desk, but in court it was discovered by their own Confidential Informant Mel Sosa and backed by a recording that the money was in fact to pay for some BBQ tickets that the CI Mel Sosa had purchased.
LIE 3: DPS investigator Rene O. stated in his affidavit that $300 dollars were left on Mr. Yzaguirre desk and that he had gotten and moved the money and the envelope, but in fact there is a forensic test done on those items and the test proved that Mr. Yzaguirre finger prints were not found on those items. The test was done by the DPS lab in Austin.
At that point it was acknowledged in court, that DPS investigator Rene O. filled in and falsified all the information needed to have the vehicles transferred. At that point in the court hearing, it came as a shock to all defense attorneys, prosecutors and the judge that he had done that.
In the back of the court room, one could here comment like, "did he really say that?", "did he really do that?" Even a DA investigator seated in the back said, "that is not right." All this was testimony said in open court. If the news media were really interested in the truth they would have pick up on this information said in court.