murders, or they would face discipline. Ironically, that supervisor has since been
promoted, sources indicate.
To date, no one directly involved in overseeing the informant has been brought
up on criminal charges, at least no such charges have been publicly announced.
One field agent has been put on administrative leave, however. Law enforcers
familiar with the case believe that Hispanic agent, unless he has documentation
to prove otherwise, will likely be the only person set up to take the fall.
Any investigation into U.S. prosecutors in this matter, of course, would have to go
through Sutton’s office – absent the appointment of a special prosecutor – or
through the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which
is under the charge of San Antonio native Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Given those realities, most law enforcers who spoke with Narco News believe
that, absent intervention by Congress, nearly everyone involved will get a pass
on the House of Death murders.
“If Sandy Gonzalez or I had done something like this, we’d be in prison,” says a
former high-ranking DEA official who asked to remain anonymous. “When a U.S.
attorney is incompetent, there are no sanctions. You have the Department of
Justice that is supposed to control these U.S. Attorneys, but they don’t when it
comes down to nut-cutting.”
As for Sandalio Gonzalez, he can’t believe justice is being sacrificed in this case,
that some 15 murdered people are deemed expendable for the sake of salvaging
careers and promoting political ambitions.
“If someone in Congress is not willing to take a stand on this, the nation as a
whole loses some integrity in the process,” he stresses. “This isn’t about national
security, spies or intelligence work, this is police work, right here. There are
bodies out there.”
Correction: Luis Padilla was originally mistakenly identified in this story as a U.S. citizen. Padilla
was a legal U.S. resident who lived most of his life there but was not, in fact, a citizen of that
country, according to Raul Loya, the Dallas-based attorney who is representing his family in
pending litigation against ICE agents and a U.S. prosecutor.
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