Mexican Media Mogul Rolando Gonzalez Trevino receives Five Years Community Supervision Sentence in Federal Court

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division, in San Antonio, Texas sentenced Mexican media mogul Rolando Gonzalez Trevino, who owns a broadcast television station in Eagle Pass, Texas located on North Veterans Boulevard, to five years of community supervision (probation), forefeiture of $1.8 Million in assets, a $250,000 fine, and allowed to remain in the United States on immigration parole.

Rolando Gonzalez Trevino is from the State of Coahuila, Mexico.  He pled guilty in federal court of conspiring to transport stolen goods, which carries a maximum sentence of five years of federal prison.  Gonzalez Trevino was originally charged also with money laundering and other offenses.

A federal grand jury indicted Trevino Gonzalez with conspiring to money laundering and transporting stolen goods from the State of Coahuila into the United States, as well as other charges.

Two former State of Coahuila government officials have been indicted in the United States with one pleading guilty and another remains a fugitive in a federal investigation concerning the misappropriation of State of Coahuila public funds and its subsequent transfer into the United States and other foreign countries.