🚀 go-pugleaf

"Don Gabacho" <jpastore@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
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> What horseshit! What were they doing "validating" any licenses anyway?
>
> High time for expelling Mexico's consulates:
>
> No wrongdoing found in license probe
> By Elizabeth Neff
> The Salt Lake Tribune
>
> State and federal authorities investigating whether fake Mexican driver
> licenses had been improperly validated by the Mexican Consulate say
> they found no evidence of wrongdoing.
>    An August 2005 Salt Lake Tribune story detailed a June 2003 letter
> sent to the consulate by state Driver License Division Deputy Director
> G. Barton Blackstock. The letter said some individuals applying for
> Utah driver licenses had admitted to presenting fake Mexican driver
> licenses, but later returned with consulate letters stating they were
> valid.
>    Blackstock called on Mexican officials to investigate Salvador
> Perez, the staff member at the consulate's Salt Lake City office who
> had been in charge of license verification.
>    Col. Claron Brenchley, director of regulatory services for Utah's
> Department of Public Safety, said Thursday that his detectives started
> "looking into" Perez after Tribune reporter Jennifer Sanchez contacted
> DPS last year for comment about the matter prior to publication of the
> story. The driver license division is part of DPS.
>    Detectives worked with U.S. State Department Special Agent Ed Roth
> in the fall but found no evidence of wrongdoing, Brenchley said.
>    "We maintained records of some of the documentation . . . but there
> wasn't enough kept or it wasn't clear-cut enough that there was a
> violation they could pursue," he said.
>    A written statement issued by the U.S. State Department said its
> diplomatic security division worked with federal prosecutors in
> reviewing the matter.
>    "At this point, there is insufficient evidence available to support
> a federal criminal indictment," said the statement. "The State
> Department's relationship with the state police has been very
> successful and the State Department office in Denver remains eager to
> continue the investigation of this and other matters."
>    The consulate ceased verifying Mexican driver licenses for Utah's
> Driver License Division in October, according to Consul of Protection
> Arturo Chavarria. Mexican Consul Salvador Jimenez said Friday it
> benefits Mexican nationals to go through the full process in place at
> the Driver License Division.
>    The consulate had few resources to process a heavy volume of driver
> license validation requests - between five and nine each day, said
> Chavarria. A lengthy verification process left some Mexican nationals
> waiting for months, he said.
>    Perez left the consulate in December of 2005, said Chavarria.
>
> Advertisement
>
> Jimenez declined to comment on why Perez left, saying he could not
> discuss internal affairs.
>    Last month, Perez filed a lawsuit claiming The Tribune defamed him
> and that he was fired because of the August 2005 story. The complaint,
> filed in 3rd District Court May 24, alleges former consulate employee
> Gina Bellazetin and Sanchez, the reporter who wrote the story,
> conspired to spread false allegations about Perez in print.
>    Attorney Maria Santana, who represents Perez, said a secret
> informant called the State Department making allegations about Perez
> around the same time Sanchez contacted DPS.
>    "Somebody called them, who I believe was a troublemaker trying to
> make an investigation," Santana said. "They looked into it and found it
> was unfounded. There really was no real investigation."
>    The Perez lawsuit is the latest chapter of a court battle between
> Bellazetin and Perez. It began in 2004, when Bellazetin accused Perez
> and other consulate employees of making slanderous statements that led
> her to lose her job, according to court papers.
>    Perez then filed his own lawsuit naming Bellazetin, Sanchez, and The
> Tribune, claiming Sanchez spoke with a state DPS official to begin an
> investigation into him and then misquoted the official. Bellazetin had
> previously accused Perez of falsifying identification forms and had
> sought to get him fired from the consulate, but an internal review by
> Mexico determined there was no merit to the accusations, according to
> the Perez lawsuit.
>    The Perez lawsuit seeks millions in damages for defamation,
> intentional interference with economic relations, and civil conspiracy.
> It also asks for punitive damages.
>    Sanchez referred questions related to the lawsuit to her editors and
> attorney. Tribune Editor Nancy Conway denied the allegations Friday,
> but otherwise declined comment.
>
Run all of these Mexican shitbags out of America.

Hank

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