Law enforcement sources familiar with the case also
have revealed to Narco News that federal agents
with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), working closely with Assistant U.S. Attorney
Juanita Fielden, who is under Sutton’s charge,
allegedly went to great lengths to conceal the
informant’s complicity in the murders.
Specifically, the sources allege that documents
related to the case were shredded once the media
first began to pick up on the story in the spring of
2004. They also claim that the informant was moved
about frequently, in part, to keep other federal
agencies, such as the DEA, from gaining access to
him. A high-level supervisor with the El Paso ICE
field office also allegedly ordered members of his
staff not to cooperate with federal agencies who
might be investigating the informant’s role in the
murders, the sources say.
In addition, the sources contend another high-level
supervisor with the ICE field office in El Paso
allegedly paid the informant “hush” money –
supposedly $50,000 or more. The sources claim that
in order to conceal the payoff, it was made to look
like a payment to another informant – one who was
already dead, killed by narco-traffickers in Mexico
after they discovered he was a snitch.
As startling as these charges may seem, Gonzalez’
claims of a cover-up in this case cannot be taken
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton Is
Plugged Into Power
Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney in
San Antonio, Texas, who now finds
himself in the hot seat over the
ongoing cover-up in the House of
Death mass murders, is well
connected to the seat of power in this
country.
Sutton has close ties to President
George W. Bush as well as to U.S.
Attorney General and possible
Supreme Court candidate Alberto
Gonzales – who is no relation to
Sandalio Gonzalez, the former high-
ranking DEA official who is calling for
a congressional investigation of
Sutton’s actions in the House of
Death case.
Veteran DEA agent Gonzalez has
accused Sutton of retaliating against
him for blowing the whistle on U.S.
law enforcers’ complicity in the
narco-related murders of a dozen
people in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Sutton, a former assistant district
attorney in Harris County, Texas,
hitched his star to the Bush political
machine in 1995, when he was
named the Criminal Justice Policy
Director for then-Governor Bush. He
served in that post until 2000, when
Bush was elected president. In the
wake of Bush’s victory, Sutton was
named associated deputy attorney
general at DOJ in Washington, D.C.,
and also served as a policy
coordinator for the Bush-Cheney
presidential transition team.
In late October of 2001, Sutton was
appointed by Bush to serve as U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of
Texas in San Antonio. The U.S.
Senate confirmed the appointment a
month later.
So Sutton does indeed have friends in
high places, including his current
boss at the Department of Justice
(DOJ).
U.S. Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales
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