Racketeering judge exposed in Texas
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April 21, 2011
Texas: Under Federal indictment, Judge Abel Limas pleaded guilty to taking cash bribes totaling $257,300 over a seven year span. Limas is a former District Court Judge of 404th district of South Texas and a former Brownsville Police Officer.[1]
Court documents cite several cases in which he admitted his rulings were swayed in the favor of paying “criminal defendants, intermediaries, and attorneys in civil cases.”[1] In one such case, an attorney paid $4,500 for an ad litem appointment to a case of a family against an insurance company in which the family was paid 7 million dollars; the attorney received $12,000. In another instance he was paid $1,800 for more lenient probation terms for a man convicted of aggravated robbery.[1]
In a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas, US Attorney Jose Moreno said "Our judicial system depends upon the integrity and honesty of our judges to faithfully execute their duty to fairly and impartially administer the law…Limas' greed deprived the citizens of Cameron County of the honest services expected of him as a duly elected official."[2]
Limas' sentencing is to take place in July. He faces up to 20 years in prison.[2]
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