Godfrey Garza, the former general manager of Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1, made more than $3.5 million in commissions on a South Texas border fence project that was largely bankrolled by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The county is now suing him, claiming he should not have received a commission on the federal money — and that he should have disclosed that project contractors hired his children’s company to work on the project.
--Courtesy The Monitor
Hidalgo County sues former employee and engineering firm involved in border fence project
Hidalgo County is taking a second crack at recuperating funds from a former employee who it alleges collected millions of dollars worth of unwarranted commission while overseeing construction of a section of border fence in the county about a decade ago.
On Wednesday, the county filed a federal lawsuit against Godfrey Garza Jr., his wife and sons and a slew of project contractors, including Dannenbaum Engineering. The Houston-based engineering company has been in the headlines recently after the chief of its South Texas office, Louis H. Jones Jr., committed suicide amid an FBI investigation that has targeted officials in Webb County for bribery.
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