Bail was set at $30,000.00 on two charges, the first of paying a bribe to an agent of an organization receiving federal funds and wire fraud.

According to the indictment, Gonzalez submitted a $35,100.00 bid to Maverick County to build a sidewalk on Lago Vista St. in Precinct 4. 

Maverick County issued two separate check totaling $35,100.00 to Gonzalez, the first on May 24, 2011 for $13, 050.00 to commence work on

the project and the second on May 26, 2011 for the completion of the sidewalk.

The indictment alleges that Gonzalez made a cash payment to an employee working in the Maverick County Auditor’s Office each time he received a check.

The indictment further alleges that both checks were issued to Gonzalez without undergoing the appropriate internal review process by Maverick County.

Additionally, Gonzalez is alleged to have never constructed the sidewalk he was paid to build on Lago Vista Street.

  Upon conviction, Gonzalez faces up to 20 years in federal prison for wire fraud and up to ten years in federal prison for bribery.

Gonzalez is expected to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Collis White this morning in Del Rio for his Initial Appearance.

This is one of nine arrests which have been made by the FBI in recent months since October in relation to these cases of fraud

including two commissioners Rudy Heredia and Eliaz Maldonado; Jaime Flores, Rene Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Alejandra Garcia and Juan Carlos Moncada who used to work in the auditor's office

and Joe Rodriguez, the owner of a local business.  All of these individuals face federal charges for misuse of County funds.

All are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.