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Associated Press
3/1/13
(Information in the following story is from: Valley Morning Star,
http://www.valleystar.com)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A jury has convicted an Austin personal injury
attorney of racketeering charges as part of a federal investigation into
judicial bribery in South Texas.
The Valley Morning Star in Harlingen reports the verdict was announced
Thursday in Corpus Christi, concluding the four-week trial of lawyer Marc
Rosenthal.
Prosecutors accused Rosenthal of bribing former state District Judge Abel
Limas so that the judge would look favorably on cases Rosenthal had before his
court. Part of the scheme was a job offer, while Limas was still on the bench,
for the judge to work for Rosenthal's firm after he left the post.
Rosenthal was arrested in August 2011. He was the second of a dozen accused
in the Brownsville corruption investigation to go to trial.