Here are 6 new stores planned for San Antonio in 2023 and beyondĬrescenzi also told investigators that his company sold pilfered petroleum fuel to Germany-based chemical company BASF Corp.San Antonio Poker Palace sued for not paying rent, reportedly closes.Famous 'first dinner' at Bliss among highlights of Wemby's first weekend.Buc-ee's opens biggest store yet in Tennessee, dethroning New Braunfels.Bexar County Medical examiner rules airport worker's death a suicide.(Bush and Cheney weren't implicated in the case.)Ĭrescenzi, of Houston, cooperated with ICE, helping the agency secretly record conversations that resulted in the conviction of Brink and two others. In August 2009, a Houston-based oil executive testified that his contact at Continental Fuels was Josh Crescenzi, who had been a news liaison for President George W. Pemex also alleged the fossil fuel was stolen by what was then the Gulf Cartel's enforcement wing, Los Zetas. Pemex said it suspected its pipelines were being tapped and the petroleum was being smuggled across the border and sold. The stolen fuel saga began in 2007, when Mexico's state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, contacted U.S. He is to be sentenced in federal court in Houston on Friday and faces a prison term of not more than five years. One company alone sold fuel valued at $2 million to Brink's company in 2009, while another delivered 22 tanker trucks filled with stolen natural gas liquids to Brink's company in early 2009, court documents show.īrink has pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement. headquarters in Houston wasn't returned.īrink purchased the fuel from middlemen and stored it in Brownsville before selling it, according to court testimony.
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