Judge Sadler
With his federal trial on conspiracy and wire fraud set to begin on April 6th, Aslam Kapadia (Judge Alan Sadler’s business partner) chose to “cop a plea” instead of taking his chances in front of a jury.
According to court documents Kapadia appeared in Judge Janis Graham Jack’s Corpus Christi courtroom on April 1, 2010 and pleaded guilty to one count. Court documents don’t make clear what charge Kapadia pleaded guilty to.
The judge ordered a Pre-Sentence Report and Investigation by May 6, 2010. Kapadia was ordered to appear for sentencing on June 24, 2010 at 2 p.m.
Documents reflect that the “prosecutor” agreed to a sentence at the lowest end of the applicable sentencing range in light of defendant’s guilty plea.
Though the court documents make no mention of Kapadia’s getting a more lenient sentence for furnishing information against his indicted colleagues, that is precisely what the “loose-lipped” Sadler is quoted as telling Steve Miller (a reporter for texaswatchdog.org) in an April 6, 2010 article.
Why would a man like Sadler with his extensive background in matters of the courts and whose reputation has been ”sullied” by his business partner’s felony indictment be stupid enough to broadcast to the public that his indicted partner has just “rolled over” and is now working with the Prosecutors and the FBI against all the other co-defendants? Sounds like a dangerously intentional statement carefully planted by the disgruntled Judge, no?
Sadler is quoted as stating to Miller that Kapadia met with the FBI and “they say there is not a problem….and this will be resolved“.
Miller also claims that Sadler said that “the case has been resolved to Kapadia’s satisfaction” even though the judge in the case has not yet handed down a sentence. Sounds like the “fix is in” according to insider Sadler! What about Kapadia’s co-defendants……..how satisfied are they with Kapadia’s “resolution”??
Personally, I think Judge Sadler’s words (quoted in the texaswatchdog.org article) serve his desire to pretend that this very “real” issue has been put to bed in order to fool potential voters into thinking his partner has “cleaner hands” than he actually has in this massive money-laundering scheme. And also to help distance himself from the rampant loan and appraisal fraud used to buy and sell gas stations and convenience stores around the state.
Perhaps Sadler has reason to be concerned about the specifics becoming widely known of HIS own partnership’s (Sadler Kapadia Investments, Inc.) purchase in 2007 of a Rosenberg gas station from the very same loan source (SBLS) as was involved in more than one of the money laundering schemes enumerated in the 2009 (11th Redacted) federal indictment! Maybe someone will look further into that particular deal.
In November Sadler faces the possibility of running against Independent candidate, Adrian Heath of The Woodlands. Heath is busy gathering the required signatures to have his name placed on the November ballot for County Judge. Let’s hope he succeeds.
Until next time……
Maxxbuster
“The BANE of Our Society…..Ill-Gotten Gain and Arrogant Public Servants”
