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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NOV 1 9 2013
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
DIVISION Dafldfaradlgy, 39:1:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

v. Criminal NoVERONICA ORTEGA 
SEALED INDICTMENT
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES:

From on or about April 2019 to on or about May 19, 2019, in the Southern District of Texas

and Within the jurisdiction of the Court, defendant,
VERONICA ORTEGA

being a public of?cial, that is, a Certi?ed Medical Assistant, at the East Hidalgo Detention Center,
a correctional facility under contract with the United States Marshals Service to house federal
inmates, did directly or indirectly, corruptly demand, seek, receive, accept, or agree to receive or
accept anything of value, namely United States currency, personally or for any other person or
entity, in return for being in?uenced in the performance of an of?cial act and being induced to do
an act and omit to do an act in violation of her of?cial duty, that is to bring contraband into the

prison facility and distributing the contraband to federal inmates.

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In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 201(b)(2)(C) and Title 18, United

States Code, Section 2.

 

A TRUE BILL

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RYAN K. PATRICK
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

 

 

ASSISTAN IT STATES ATTORNEY