Former Maverick County Justice of the Peace Cesar Iracheta to plead Guilty on December 8th

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015

Former Maverick County Justice of the Peace of Precinct 3 A-B Cesar Iracheta and his attorney, Jaime Cavazos of San Antonio, Texas announced to U.S. District Judge Alia Moses for the Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, in Del Rio, Texas that Iracheta will be pleading guilty to one or more of the two counts charged in a federal criminal indictment issued by a federal grand jury in February 2015.

Judge Moses scheduled Iracheta’s plea hearing on Tuesday, December 8, 2015, at 10:30 A.M.

Iracheta is charged with two counts of paying bribes to two Maverick County Commissioners in a “pay to play” bribery and corruption scheme regarding the awarding of Maverick County public construction contracts.

The federal indictment alleges that Iracheta in 2010 paid a bribe to a Maverick County Commissioner in order to obtain a $49,000 Maverick County public construction contract in Precinct 2 while operating as C & A Construction.

The federal indictment further alleges that Iracheta in 2011 paid a bribe to another Maverick County Commissioner in order to be awarded a $22,500 Maverick County public construction contract in Precinct 1.

The federal indictment alleges that Iracheta submitted inflated bids to Maverick County to cover for the construction costs of the project, make a profit, and pay a bribe to County Commissioners for awarding him and his C & A Construction business the public contract.

Iracheta was a publicly elected Justice of Peace of Maverick County for Precinct 3 A-B while doing business as C & A Construction and bidding on Maverick County public construction contracts.

Iracheta will join four Maverick County Commissioners whom have either plead guilty or will plead guilty and over 20 contractors or individuals who also plead guilty in the largest bribery and corruption scandal in the history of Maverick County, Texas.

Iracheta faces up to 10 years of federal prison on each of the two charges in the federal indictment, a fine, restitution, special assessment, court costs, and community supervision after completion of his sentence.

The investigation was handled by the Texas Rangers and U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The U.S. government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Katherine Griffith and Bryan Reeves of the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, in Del Rio, Texas.