A former kitchen manager for Salsalito Cantina Inc. pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor  charge of employing illegal workers as part of a deal in which teh government dismissed a seperate felony conspiracy count.

Court records show Carlos Cossio mendoza cooperated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement case that produced a rare indictment of the restaurant, its owner Hossein Bagheri and three other employees.

A phone tip by a fired employee in 2008 led to the ICE agents to the restaurants, where they arrested and eventually deported 20 workers who were illegally in the United States, according to federal agents..

For his role, Cossio was charged with employing illegal workers and conspiracy to commit fraud by helping an informant pose as an illegal immigrant get a phony green card.

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He’s accused of bribery, filing false tax papers and he’s a Harris County commissioner.  Jerry Eversole has plead not guilty to federal bribery and income tax charges Tuesday.  Eversole also was indicted on a single count of conspiracy and two counts of filing false statements on his income taxes in 2003 and 2004. 

His friend Surface was indicted on one count of conspiracy and a count of paying a bribe.  He has also plead not guilty.  Both men were freed on $100,000 bail after their appearance in US magistrate Judge Nancy Johnson’s court.   If convicted Eversole could face a maximum punishment on the bribery charge of 10 years in prison and up to five years on the conspiracy charge.  The income tax charges carry maximum prison times of three years each.

These indictments follow nearly three years of investigation by the FBI.  The ongoing investigation became a frequent touch point for Democratic county candidates during the 2008 elections.

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A woman was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of using counterfeit cash made in a hotel room to buy beer at a Northeast side restaurant.  Brittany Edwards, was set to be booked into Bexar County Jail on one count of forging a government instrument.  Bail has been set at $15,000. 

An arrest warrant affidavit alleges authorities were allerted Nov 26, when Edwards was set to spend $20 bill on beer at the Firehouse Bar and Grill in the 5300 block of Walzem Road.  Employees gave police the description and license plate of the vehicle Edwards left in.

Police contacted the cars owner, who told them his girlfriend had it and was staying at a Motel 6 on interstate 35 and Thousand Oaks.  Police found a printer and paper containing images of $20 dollar bills with the same serial number.

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A San Antonio  woman has been charged with two counts of bank fraud over allegations that she had been buying boats and vehicles with stolen Social Security numbers.  Mary Mercy Lopez, was arrested this week after San Antonio police and Secret Service agents traced her to the purchase of a corvette worth more than $42,000 and a boat trailer worth nearly &20,000, 

Investigators claim Lopez had been using Social Security numbers agents believe were stolen, and had gone to several ara dealers with her husband to try to use them in vvehicle purchases.  Her husband has not been charged yet and Lopez’s bond was set at $10,000 which she later posted and was released.

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A  federal judge issued an arrest warrant for an area podiatrist after he failed to show up for a hearing Thursday on charges of cheating on his taxes.  Donald Robinson faxed papers to the federal courthouse in San Antonio stating that his hearing had been canceled and that he had issued a $300 million dollar warrant naming himself as the surety though he has no authority, Chief US District Judge Fred Biery said.

He said he didnt show up to his hearing because he believed he was working it out with the IRS.  He also stated that he was too scared to go to court because of his heart condition, I was hoping they would accept my record but obviously not. 

A federal grand jury indicted Robinson in August on four counts of subscribing to a false income tax return or statement.  The indictment said he signed off on tax returns that significantly underreported his income for 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.  It also alleges he denied having any interest in or signatory authority over financial accounts in foreign countries when he actually did

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