Cortes to Deputies: "Me Going Down and Eating Bologna Sandwiches Doesn't Scare Me."
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| Constable Jaime Cortes |
The audio file -- a scratchy recording from a device somebody must have had inside a pocket -- features Cortes warning his deputies not to cooperate with ongoing criminal investigations of Cortes. The source who sent it to Unfair Park, who is familiar with the back story on Cortes's problems, believes the recording catches the constables threatening and intimidating witnesses in a criminal investigation.
Friedman didn't call us back to speak for Cortes. But Unfair Park thinks there are probably at least a couple of ways to read the transcript of the recording provided by the same source. The exculpatory version would be that Cortes was merely trying to buck up morale and show his troops that he is unbowed.
On January 28 Cortes's top deputy and the deputy's wife were arrested on several charges, the result of separate investigations by Dallas County Judge Jim Foster and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins of corruption in Cortes's office. Some witnesses also have reported being questioned by the FBI.
The source who provided the recording and transcript to Unfair Park asked not to be named in order to avoid compromising the investigations. The source claimed to have spoken with more than one person present at the meeting yesterday in Cortes's office. The source said the impression conveyed by them was that Cortes was warning people not to cooperate with law enforcement investigators. They told the source Cortes wanted them to know that he would get their names, that he would be out of jail soon on bond if arrested and that those who had wives and children should remember that Cortes is a tough guy from West Dallas.
A full transcript follows.






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