Community | May 08, 2010 | 11 comments

Former El Paso Criminal District Court Judge Manuel Barraza Sentenced to Federal Prison

source: http://elpaso.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ep050610.htm

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United States Attorney John E. Murphy and David Cuthbertson, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - El Paso Division, announced that former El Paso Criminal District Court Judge Manuel Joseph Barraza, aka Manny Barraza, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison on charges related to a bribery scheme.

In addition to the prison term, United States District Judge Frank Montalvo ordered that Barraza forfeit to the Government $5,100 in bribe money he received. Judge Montalvo also ordered that Barraza be placed under supervised release for a period of three years after completing his prison term.

In February, a jury convicted Barraza of two counts of wire fraud and the deprivation of honest services and one count of making false statements. The jury acquitted Barraza of one count of mail fraud. Evidence presented during trial revealed that beginning on or about December 2008 and continuing and including February 26, 2009, Barraza solicited, agreed to accept and accepted bribes in the form of cash money. He also solicited sex and agreed to accept a bribe of engaging in sexual activity with women. These acts were all committed in exchange for his influence and exercise of discretion in his official capacity as an elected judge. In carrying out his bribery scheme, Judge Barraza promised to intervene in a felony criminal case filed by the State of Texas pending in state district court in order to influence the outcome of the case.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Laura Franco Gregory and Antonio Franco.
http://elpaso.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ep050610.htm
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11 comments // Former El Paso Criminal District Court Judge Manuel Barraza Sentenced to Federal Prison

  • divotdawg
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      divotdawg  

    • He's just one of many corrupt judges, especially in family court or dependency court. I'm glad one of them got caught. Maybe they'll try harder to find them or this one will tell who the others are for a lighter sentence.

    • 2 years ago
  • Steward2
  • JanforGore
  • MotherForTruth
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  

    • Sweet but far from enough. We are voting for judges right now in Oregon. The problem is no one gives the public enough information to really know who we are voting for. Mostly you get only one person running for each position. This should be the responsibility of the media at large to inform the public as to the past shenanigans of the incumbent judges.

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • Dagum
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      Dagum  
    • treewolf39:

      The media has completely forget their primarily function, to inform the public. Most media personnel are too lazy, ill informed, and ignorant to try and understand judicial politics, and the corrupt administration of American justice. The media is content to just run "shock" stories. Occasionally these stories cover important issues but they are done in a way that is emotionally charged and devoid of critical thinking and objective reasoning. Even these stories will fall by the wayside for a story on a celebrity not eating, or doing cocaine, cheating, etc. This is why the public will remain uniformed, and America will fail.

    • 2 years ago
  • treewolf39
  • Steward2
  • treewolf39
  • Steward2
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      Steward2  

    • Thomas Jefferson,
      It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression... that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary;... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.
      Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821

      It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
      Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Sinclair, 1791

    • 2 years ago
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