{"id":1721878,"date":"2022-11-02T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721878"},"modified":"2022-11-02T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:50:16","slug":"scandal-plagued-texas-dem-received-donation-from-family-tied-to-the-most-dangerous-cartel-operating-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scandal-plagued-texas-dem-received-donation-from-family-tied-to-the-most-dangerous-cartel-operating-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal-Plagued Texas Dem Received Donation From Family Tied to the \u2018Most Dangerous Cartel Operating in Mexico\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscandal-plagued-texas-dem-received-donation-from-family-tied-to-the-most-dangerous-cartel-operating-in-mexico%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721878&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Texas congressman Henry Cuellar and his brother, a Texas sheriff, received thousands of dollars from a family with close ties to Mexico&#8217;s &#8220;notoriously brutal&#8221; Los Zetas cartel,\u00a0National Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/10\/henry-cuellars-strange-donation-from-the-family-of-a-zetas-cartel-conduit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar, who is facing a tough reelection race this year, in 2006 received $1,000 from the then-wife of Antonio Pe\u00f1a Arguelles, a money launderer for Los Zetas, which U.S. officials have called &#8220;the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in\u00a0Mexico.&#8221;\u00a0Pe\u00f1a Arguelles, who in 2014 was sentenced to more than two years in U.S. federal prison, himself donated $1,500 to Cuellar\u2019s brother, Webb County sheriff Martin Cuellar (D.).<\/p>\n<p>While the San Antonio Express-News at the time reported on the donations, the story &#8220;never garnered national attention and largely disappeared&#8221; after Henry Cuellar reportedly gave the money to charity,\u00a0National Review noted.<\/p>\n<p>The National Review report comes as the United States faces an unprecedented migrant crisis, with two million illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since last October. The Biden administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/report-biden-pressured-el-paso-mayor-to-cover-up-border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faced<\/a> widespread criticism, including from <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/texas-dem-says-mexico-gives-him-more-info-on-border-crisis-than-biden-admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuellar<\/a>, for its handling of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes as Cuellar faces corruption allegations, with the FBI in January <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fbi-raids-home-of-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raiding<\/a> his home and campaign office. The multiple scandals have added up to the congressman&#8217;s toughest reelection fight since he first took office in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cuellar&#8217;s strange donation link to an alleged conduit for one of the largest and most violent cartels in the region could be a liability,&#8221; National Review noted:<\/p>\n<p>Cartels leave a heavy footprint in the Rio Grande Valley, and a large segment of the region&#8217;s economy is linked to Border Patrol jobs. Notably, the National Border Patrol Council\u2014the labor union representing some 18,000 Border Patrol agents\u2014opted to endorse Cuellar&#8217;s Republican challenger,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/10\/cassy-garcia-wants-to-turn-south-texas-red\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cassy Garcia<\/a>, over the Democratic incumbent this year, despite having routinely endorsed Cuellar in past elections.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar&#8217;s campaign told National Review after publication that &#8220;resurfacing this 10-year-old story is a blatant smear attempt&#8221; and insisted that Cuellar &#8220;had no knowledge&#8221; of the Pe\u00f1a Arguelles family&#8217;s background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Texas congressman Henry Cuellar and his brother, a Texas sheriff, received thousands of dollars from a family with close ties to Mexico&#8217;s &#8220;notoriously brutal&#8221; Los Zetas cartel,\u00a0National Review reported Monday.<br \/>\nThe post Scandal-Plagued Texas Dem Received Donation From Family Tied to the \u2018Most Dangerous Cartel Operating in Mexico\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1227358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}