Con Artist Quintanilla Threatens Local Blogger

 

by Jim Barton on Monday, November 21, 2011 at 6:55pm

     According to the blog Downtown Browntown, Carlos Quintanilla sent this message to the blog's publisher, Jerry Mchale:
  ""While I find your blog amusing and informative, I categorically reject the continued slander and defamation you use towards me. Your latest reference to me as a flim-flam man is slanderous and libel per se. You are being advised that any future postings on your blog referring to me in a slanderous and defamatory manner will leave me no recourse but to file civil actions against you and file a complaint against you in your capacity at BISD for slander and defamation with reference to business relations. I am also making a demand that you delete your offensive reference to me as a flim-flam man. I am sure that there are many in Brownsville who fit that description."


     Threats issued by Quintanilla are nothing new.  As you may know, Mary S. Rey has a son currently incarcerated, charged with murder.   Mary played tapes for us where Quintanilla threatened to go to the victim's family, guiding them in pursuing the harshest penalty should her son be convicted.  Quintanilla threatened me with a lawsuit when I referred to him as a con artist during the Fly Frontera fiasco.
     But Quintanilla is on shaky legal ground here with Mchale.  Defamation and slander typically require a statement to be malicious and false.  Is it incorrect to refer to Quintanilla as a flim flam man or con artist?   The U.S. judicial system has declared Quintanilla GUILTY  of racketeering with a R.I.C.O. felony conviction involving his attempted $700,000 kickback scheme to defraud the G. Heileman Brewing Company.  Since a kickback scheme involves lying, deception and a con, Quintanilla is a convicted liar and con artist.  Calling him a flim flam man is a gross understatement.  Notice that Mchale held back from reporting what was alleged by several during the Fly Frontera fiasco:  that Quintanilla was $85,000 arrears in child support, had bounced $12,000 in hot checks, had numerous liens on his property for non-payment of services and multitudinous lawsuits.
     Threats and cons are just part of Quintanilla's arsenal.  He also plays the race card and apparently dangles the lure of calabaza.  Quintanilla is associated with Accion America, sort of the hispanic version of the NAACP, a group purported to protecting the civil rights of hispanics.  While Quintanilla wore out his welcome in Dallas, many succumbed here in Brownsville.  Fly Frontera was on the verge of passing last April 5th without the 4-day old company every having been vetted by the BEDC.  Former Mayor Ahumada lobbied vociferously on Facebook for the proposal.  Former commissioner Charlie Atkinson kept trying to bring it back long after it was dead.  The lure of calabaza.


     Based on the above, it should be troubling that Quintanilla is unquestionably entangled with the BISD.  Mary S. Rey has recordings and texts that indicate that he is calling the shots, palling around and cavorting with Catalina Presas-Garcia and Lucy Longoria.  Mary overheard Quintanilla calling Longoria a "bitch" when she got cold feet on the Springston firing/termination/resignation.  Why is a convicted racketeer allowed around our educators and their administrators?  He is not an educator or an administrator.  He is not a trustee or teacher.  He is a convicted racketeer from Dallas who cannot leave our community fast enough.