Turns out Josh Crescenzi, former Texas A&M slow-foot sprinter and Bush/Cheney insider, who was allegedly up to his neck in the PemexZetasTexas petro theft operation cut a deal with US ICE agents and surreptitiously recorded hours of conversations with fellow Texas oil men involved in the multimillion dollar illicit trafficking ring.
Crescenzi is a former press advance representative for Bush and Cheney. They are not implicated in the case, but those familiar with Crescenzi said he was known to brag about his connections to further his business interests.
Crescenzi most recently supervised operations in the Rio Grande Valley for Continental Fuels. He resigned in May while cooperating with the feds and has not commented publicly. No charges have been filed against him.
Crescenzi will probably be spared the terminal wrath the Zetas usually mete out to “cooperative witnesses” south of the US border. It wouldn’t be prudent. Besides the Zetas don’t have anything to lose in this. They aren’t likely to have their accounts seized like those of their Texas buyers. Zetas/La Compania’s lucrative take from the operation has likely long since been laundered and “banked” elsewhere.
San Antonio Express-News reporter Guillermo Contreras delivers the story here.
