Former Maverick County Justice of the Peace Cesar Iracheta to be sentenced May 24, 2016

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

Former Maverick County Justice of the Peace for Precinct 3-AB Cesar Iracheta is scheduled to be sentenced for bribery and paying kickbacks on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 10:40 A.M. by United States District Judge Alia Moses for the Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, in Del Rio, Texas.

Iracheta plead guilty to a federal indictment charging him with bribery and paying kickbacks to a Maverick County Commissioner in exchange for receiving public construction contracts of Maverick County, Texas.

Iracheta served for many years as a publicly elected Justice of the Peace for Precinct 3-AB in Maverick County, Texas before being indicted by a federal grand jury after an FBI investigation concerning bribery and corruption in public construction contracts of Maverick County, Texas, which resulted in over 30 persons indicted and/or pleading guilty.