Disgraced Former Fire Chief Carlos Elizondo, Hastily Retired
Former City Manager Charlie Cabler
The fact that newly appointed City Attorney Rene De Coss has stated that City Commissioner Ben Neece should not have unilaterally released the the audit review of the Audit Committee's report does not take away from the confirmed wrongdoing of former Fire Chief Carlos Elizondo perpetrated with the knowledge of former City Manager Charlie Cabler.
By diverting emergency calls to the city to his own independent, unlicensed ambulance service at $800 a pop, Elizondo was stealing from the city.
By knowingly allowing such a practice, Charlie Cabler was, if not an accomplice, very near to being an accessory to a crime.
Actual knowledge that a crime is being committed is the primary prerequisite to being labeled an accessory.
The audit review backs up the original audit in reporting that Cabler knew what was going on. He absolutely knew Intercity Ambulance Service was unlicensed, without a permit to operate in Brownsville as he knew he'd not signed such a permit as required.
Forget about the propriety of whether or not the audit review should have been released by Neece and just consider what both the original audit andits review by Burton, McCumber and Longoria.
Both the original report and its review show that Cabler was not protecting the interests of Brownsville taxpayers.
Even Cabler's quoted argument that the City of Brownsville ambulance service was "understaffed" does not hold water or make diverting emergency calls to an unlicensed ambulance firm legal or prudent.
Cabler should NEVER hold office in Brownsville.
He has betrayed the city's trust.
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ReplyDeleteWhere did DeCoss say Ben should not have released the report. If true he acted under orders of you know who. I do not want to get you in trouble so I will only say you know who.
Thanks. . . . That info came from El Rrun Rrun: "Sources say that De Coss had written Neece a letter saying he was exceeding his authority as a city commissioner in releasing it and that the new city manager (Noel Bernal) had also met with Neece to warn him of the consequences of making its "finding" public and would put the city in a predicament."
ReplyDeleteThanks Jim but Montoya has published such falsehoods in the past - remember he non existed investigation against the city employee who never took that picture of Carlos Elizondo with Caty and Lucy. I have checked many contacts in the city and no one seems to know about it, It would certainly be a basis to investigate both for obstruction of justice. But thanks for answering
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