CASTROGATE.COM CORRUPT DISTRICT ATTORNEY NICO LAHOOD
Ongoing cover-up Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood
January 2015 to Present day
Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood has violated the law and the Texas Public Information Act while trying to conceal a criminal conspiracy for his corrupt friends. On Nov. 19, 2015 LaHood stated in an official open records reply that he has no documents BUT the US Postal Service provided proof that LaHood received at least five certified letters detailing years of public/police corruption…LaHood lied, concealed evidence and, refused to enforce the TOMA in violation of the law to protect Castro and other friends. FaceBook screen-shots show that LaHood has been aware of the criminal conspiracy since taking office in January 2015 and he has attempted to discredit all reports by cyber-bullying whistle-blowers in an effort to protect Mayor / HUD Secretary Julian Castro, Attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of white house social secretary Jeremy Bernard) , police officers, judges, attorneys, sheriffs, police chiefs and City/County officials.
On June 16 SAEN reporter Brian Chasnoff published an article detailing the cyber-bullying by DA LaHood targeting whistle-blowers reporting criminal activity including the 4 years of illegal meetings Julian Castro participated in when citizens were banned to silence their reports of corruption from July 2009 to April 2013. In July 2016 a whistle-blower came forward reporting that DA LaHood had taken a bribe to drop criminal charges against real-estate broker Debra Austin after conversations with HUD Asst. Deputy Secretary Lourdes Castro Ramirez. The whistle-blower reported that Ramirez and other HUD / SAHA officials/employees were given direction to harass and frame another citizen in retaliation for reporting the criminal acts of Debra Austin who was indicted for felony theft last year. On August 15, 2016 LaHood banned whistleblowers from his FB page and deleted ALL information pertaining to the ongoing criminal cover-up, a mysterious homicide in the Bexar County jail and reports of a whistleblower reporting the fact that LaHood took a bribe to drop criminal charges of felony theft. On August 17, 2016 , FBI Agent Fernando Llanos ( 210-225-6741 ) met with members of anational Constitutional Rights organization and examined PROOF of the ongoing RICO-like criminal conspiracy inside City Hall, SAPD, BCSO, AACOG and our Courts. On August 20. 2016 the SA Express News published a multi-page expose putting corrupt DA Nico LaHood at the center of a PONZI scheme stealing millions of dollars from investors including a family that had just lost children and friends to a horrific accident. On August 23, 2016 FBI Agent Fernando Llanos was provided with a CD of information and a link to online info at Castrogate.com concerning the criminal acts of crooked DA LaHood and other illegal activity. On August 24th the SA Express News published another article exposing LaHood’s failure to disclose a business interest in official documents / filings or to citizens reporting that they had been defrauded of millions of dollars to him (Documentation is posted on this page – please scroll down)
LaHood has conspired with other corrupt officials to conceal a DECADE of public/police corruption, the theft/misuse of tens of millions of OUR dollars, Judicial fraud in the 57th District Court and Federal Court to hide the criminal activity, HUD fraud – case HL-10-0465 at four years of illegal city meetings when money / land (including the federal Courthouse / Hemisfair park property/ land held sacred by Native Americans) was illegally transferred in violation of the law after whistleblowers were banned to silence them, City officials’ refusal to repair the failing 911 Emergency Communications System and the fact that ONE in FOUR 911 calls have failed over the past TEN years putting the lives of 1.5 MILLION residents, 31 MILLION Tourists a year, MILLIONS of Military Personnel and First Responders at risk.
LaHood is concealing the fact that SAPD Chief McManus and city attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard) issued at least two illegal, unconstitutional criminal trespass warnings barring entry into City Hall and public meetings to silence reports of the illegal cover-up. They confiscated proof of the criminal activity and swore everyone to secrecy. City officials including City Manager Sheryl Sculley , Mayor Ivy Taylor, Councilman Cris Medina and Councilman Ray Lopez played along with the cover-up and participated in forty-five (45) months of illegal meetings in violation of the Texas Open Meeting Act, the Constitution, the City Charter, the Texas Local Government Code and other laws ( July 2009 to April 2013).
LaHood has been hiding the fact that City Manger Sheryl Sculley, City Attorney Michael Bernard and others paid the law firm of Fitzpatrick & Kosanovich with OUR tax dollars to defraud the 57th District Court of Judge Antonia Arteaga and the Federal Court of Judge Xavier Rodriguez in an effort to conceal the ongoing criminal cover-up. Judge Antonia Arteaga, attorney Malinda Gaul, attorney Mark Kosanovich, attorney Deborah Klein played along with the Fraud upon our Court and concealed material evidence including the deposition of City CIO Richard Varn, Administrative Directive 6.12, a search warrant for the bank records of City IT Manager Jose Medina documents showing the theft of $200,000 by Medina and city vendor Isabel Gonzaba and documents showing illegal no-bid contracts .The Federal Probe by the US Attorney – District of New Mexico in 2015 didn’t go far enough in exposing the corruption infecting our local government, our police department and our Courts.Judge Rodriguez refused to hold a preliminary hearing and call for criminal charges when attorney Shawn Fitzpatrick, SAPD Chief McManus, attorney Michael Bernard and Mayor Julian Castro (representing the City) lied and stated that there was no perjury in the 57th District Court and there ws no criminal conspiracy to conceal the ongoing illegal cover-up.
LaHood has been hiding the fact that City IT Manager Jose Medina and city vendor Isabel Gonzaba ( IG Communications / Globalscope) engaged in a conspiracy to falsify the invoices and billing records submitted to the Government of the United States, the State of Texas, the City of San Antonio, Texas and others via numerous Avaya contracts including the Texas Department of Information Resources Avaya contract. They conspired to use various billing systems including the City’s telephone variable billing account, the Avaya contract billing account and the State of Texas DIR billing account to inflate the number of hours worked on telecommunications support including grant funded projects/orders/service requests and to alter the invoices and billing records upon which the payments were based. They engaged in this illegal conduct to fraudulently obtain what is estimated at $170,000-$200,000 during an approximate time frame of 2002-2005.
Citizens call for the immediate appointment of a Special Prosecutor to oversee criminal investigations in Bexar County Texas including the investigation and prosecution of Julian Castro as Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood lies and conceals evidence in an effort to hide an ongoing RICO-like criminal conspiracy.
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San Antonio TX City Attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of Obama White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard), San Antonio Mayor / HUD Secretary Julian Castro , Joaquin Castro D – Texas and other corrupt persons conspired to conceal a RICO- like criminal conspiracy extending from San Antonio TX to the White House hiding ONGOING efforts to cover up the theft / misappropriation of tens of millions of dollars , Judicial Fraud hiding the criminal activity, HUD fraud, state/federal grant fraud, “cooked” books, official oppression, Constitutional / Free Speech abuses ,municipal bond fraud ,aggregated perjury , a decade of critical 911 failures when maintenance funding was denied and other crimes. The RICO-like criminal conspiracy continues.
Instead of following the law, addressing the criminal activity and exposing the three decades of fraud / theft officials ( led by City Attorney Michael Bernard – brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard ) , law enforcement, judges, attorneys, etc. conspired to conceal the RICO-like criminal conspiracy. Attorney Bernard, SAPD Chief William McManus and others used the power of their offices to retaliate against law-abiding whistleblowers , illegally ban them from City Hall / public meetings and defame them in an effort to discredit their reports of criminal activity inside local government and law enforcement.
Corrupt City of San Antonio, Texas officials / employees have since 1982 secretly , illegally dumped invoices, bills, fake statements, altered documents, etc. into an internal telephone billing account – the “telephone variable” and used the City’s Avaya Telephone Contract to fraudulently bill individual city departments, state/federal agencies and others for “ghost” expenses. These bogus invoices and bills were not for 911 / telephone costs, were not associated with state/federal grants, were not the responsibility of the department/entity being billed, were altered to hide the true identity of the user, contained known fraudulent accounting of hours worked and other expenses, were used for illegal contracts with unauthorized vendors containing huge markups and were NEVER approved by Council / taxpayers. Since 1982 up to $5.2 million a year was spent with no Council approval, no public input, no open bidding, no Finance Dept approval, no City ordinance, etc. fraudulent use of the “variable” violated the Law, City Administrative Directive 6.12, City ordinances, open bidding regulations, state/federal grants rules, Local Government Code, OMB regulations, HUD regulations, etc. Internal City documents describe the magnitude of the fraud as “a bottomless pit of money” and “millions of dollars of goods and services”. During a time when “ONE IN FOUR” or “ONE IN FIVE” 911 calls failed to reach a call taker, requests for maintenance funding was denied as all the money had been stolen or misappropriated for three decades. The crippled 911 system failed for over a decade, putting lives at risk while City officials lied to conceal the scandal. Up to $5.2 million a year for EVERY year since 1982 was funneled through the “variable”- most of the money for illegal purposes.
As in the case of WATERGATE, the criminal conspiracy to conceal the original crimes casts a net around the White House, the FBI, the DOJ , HUD and many other corrupt participants.
Pro-Amnesty, Pro-Dreamer, Open Border Agendas take a front seat to the US Constitution and other laws while our women and children are raped and slaughtered by illegals who Hillary, Castro and Obama welcome with open arms.
Unlike the Washington Post who exposed Water Gate, the San Antonio Express News and other local media organizations ( KABB, KSAT,WOAI,KENS, TPR, etc. ) conspire with criminals on our public payroll to conceal the illegal cover-up , protect their friends in City Hall and keep the money flowing with their “fake news” .
THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY CONTINUES
Corrupt City of San Antonio, Texas officials / employees have since 1982 secretly , illegally dumped invoices, bills, fake statements , altered documents, etc. into an internal telephone billing account – the “telephone variable” and used the City’s Avaya Telephone Contract to fraudulently bill individual city departments, state/federal agencies and others for “ghost” expenses. These bogus invoices and bills were not for 911 / telephone costs, were not associated with state/federal grants, were not the responsibility of the department/entity being billed, were altered to hide the true identity of the user, contained known fraudulent accounting of hours worked and other expenses, were used for illegal contracts with unauthorized vendors containing huge markups and were NEVER approved by Council / taxpayers. Since 1982 up to $5.2 million a year was spent with no Council approval, no public input, no open bidding, no Finance Dept approval, no City ordinance, etc. fraudulent use of the “variable” violated the Law, City Administrative Directive 6.12, City ordinances, open bidding regulations, state/federal grants rules, Local Government Code, OMB regulations, HUD regulations, etc. Internal City documents describe the magnitude of the fraud as “a bottomless pit of money” and “millions of dollars of goods and services”. Up to $5.2 million a year for EVERY year since 1982 was funneled through the “variable”- most of the money for illegal purposes. Instead of addressing the criminal activity and exposing the three decades of fraud / theft officials ( led by City Attorney Michael Bernard – brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard ) , law enforcement, judges, attorneys, etc. conspired to conceal the RICO-like criminal conspiracy
In February 2009, City Attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard) conspired with corrupt Bexar County 57th District Judge Antonia Arteaga, attorney Malinda Gaul, attorney Mark Kosanovich, attorney Deborah Klein, City IT Director Hugh Miller, City CIO Richard Varn and others to defraud our Judicial System, to conceal material evidence and to present a well-rehearsed, totally fabricated “soap opera skit” to the Court in an effort to conceal the ongoing RICO-like criminal conspiracy inside City Hall, SAPD, the DA’s Office, BCSO and our Courts. On July 1, 2009, illegal, unconstitutional acts were committed to cover up the criminal activity when all proof of the crimes was confiscated from City Council , instructions were issued by City Attorney Bernard and Chief McManus not to discuss the criminal activity and an unconstitutional “Criminal trespass Warning” letter was issued by Bernard and SAPD Chief McManus barring entry into City Hall, Main Plaza ( City Council chambers), etc. The illegal, unconstitutional ban lasted almost four years – July 2009 to April 2013 during which time Julián Castro and other corrupt
officials knowingly participated in illegal meetings in violation of the Texas Open Meeting Act, the US Constitution and other laws.
On July 2, 2013 , Mayor Julian Castro ( representing the City of San Antonio), SAPD Chief William McManus, city attorney Michael Bernard and attorney Shawn Fitzpatrick defrauded the Federal
Court of corrupt Judge Xavier Rodriguez in an effort to conceal the ongoing criminal conspiracy by submitting false statements saying that there is no conspiracy and there was no perjury in the 57th District Court….two LIES. In typical Bexar County fashion, Judge Rodriguez, attorney Joseph Hoelscher and attorney Dan Moore played along with the fraud upon the court, refused to call for an evidentiary hearing and refused to call for criminal charges . While corrupt Judge Rodriguez was helping McManus, Bernard, Castro and Fitzpatrick defraud our Judicial System and hide the ongoing criminal conspiracy he was acting as a liaison and negotiating a deal with the Defendants and the City of San Antonio, TX for a building site for a new Federal Courthouse. City ordinances concerning the transfer of land /money were approved during illegal city council meetings ( July 2009-April 2013) that would be declared null /void by a ruling against the Defendants .
Other Involved Parties
Whistleblower/Court Victim John Foddrill Sr
Other Corrupt involved Parties
Congressman Joaquin Castro
Mayor Julian Castro
City Attorney Michael D. Bernard
District Attorney Da Nico LaHood
MORE INFO
“The Variable” Telephone Billing Account
Fraud upon the court
Texas Meeting Act Violations, and other “Closed Meetings”
911 Failure Scandal
HUD Fraud
Theft of Public Funds
Municpal Bond Fraud City of San Antonio, Texas
AACOG Scandal
San Antonio Police Department Raid July 4, 2011
Audio and Video Recordings
FBI & DOJ Cover Up
County Courthouse Probe
Council on Police Community Relations
Murder in the Bexar County Jail
“Fake News” The Cover up continues
Depositions
