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States: Federal Agents To Focus On Texas Border Corruption
In recent years the
Texas border has become a focal point in terms of corruption as state judges,
district attorney’s, county sheriffs, police chiefs, mayors, school board
presidents and various other municipal officials have all made headlines for
using various schemes to earn illicit moneys. From buying votes with cocaine to
rigging contracts to taking bribes to having ties to drug traffickers,
corruption has become a dark cloud that hangs over the area making it the topic
of jokes and political talking points.
In order to fight
large amount of corruption the FBI created a task force to investigate all
cases of public corruption in the border counties that make up the Rio Grande
Valley. The task force is made up of FBI agents, Texas Rangers, Homeland Security
Internal Affairs, the Office of Inspector General, as well as various members
from local departments.
While the FBI has
always investigated public corruption, the “disproportionate amount of
corruption” in the area led to the agency moving around assets to the Texas
border so they could create a new task force aimed at tackling this particular
problem, Rock Stone, the FBI special agent heading up the task force said to
Breitbart Texas.
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