Anthony Cobos is an American politician from the State of Texas in the United States.
24 Facts About Anthony Cobos
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Anthony Cobos served as the El Paso County Judge from 2007 to 2011 and is a former member of the El Paso City Council.
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Anthony Cobos was sentenced on January 3,2014 to four years in federal prison, to be served in Colorado, and a $10,000 fine.
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Anthony Cobos is married to Leticia Juarez Cobos and together they have five children.
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Anthony Cobos has been active in local politics for many years and owns several local businesses.
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Anthony Cobos was elected to represent District 8 of the El Paso City Council in 2001 and re-elected to a second two-year term in 2003.
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In late 2005, Anthony Cobos began his campaign for El Paso County Judge.
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Attorneys Theresa Caballero and Stuart Leeds filed suit on behalf of Anthony Cobos to prevent the County's Ethics Board from investigating an ethics complaint filed against him by El Paso City Representative Emma Acosta.
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Anthony Cobos alleged that in 2010, Wenke's representation of Escobar in an ethics complaint filed against Escobar was payback for the vote three years before to approve the civil settlement.
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Anthony Cobos came under fire for hiring a long-time controversial El Paso political activist Jaime O Perez as his chief of staff.
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The charging document to which Ketner pleaded guilty indicated that Anthony Cobos hired Ketner at the urging of former El Paso County Judge and well-known political operative Luther Jones and that Ketner was hired for the explicit purpose of securing bribes for Anthony Cobos and others.
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On December 12,2008 Anthony Cobos held a news conference outside the offices of the El Paso Times to deny rumors he might resign as county judge, and to attack the newspaper for an editorial that wished he would resign.
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Anthony Cobos asked Times publisher and president Ray Stafford and editorial writers Joe Muench and Charles Edgren to debate him, which they did not do.
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Anthony Cobos claimed that the Times is "attempting to break me" and "control my votes and actions on the Commissioners Court".
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Anthony Cobos attempted to enter the Times building, but was blocked by newspaper employees.
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Anthony Cobos banged on the building's glass doors, and eventually slipped a letter with his complaints through the slit between the doors.
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Judge Anthony Cobos was under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for involvement in public corruption charges involving several high-profile citizens and organizations in El Paso.
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Anthony Cobos was arrested by the FBI on December 16,2011 and charged with mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and deprivation of honest services.
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On December 21,2011 Anthony Cobos was released on $50,000 bond; his bond was not set on December 16 because he refused to answer pretrial questions.
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Anthony Cobos pleaded guilty in September 2013 to receiving $4,500 bribes from lobbyists in exchange for his vote on county commissioner's court.
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Anthony Cobos was sentenced in January 2014 to a $10,000 fine and four years in federal prison, to be served in Colorado.
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Anthony Cobos's lawyers withdrew from representing him in January 2015 because he made this request without informing them.
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On January 30,2014, Anthony Cobos was arrested on suspicion of fraud by the US Marshals Service and Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office at his El Paso home for embezzling $43,000 from a couple in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Anthony Cobos was convicted on January 13,2016 and will face a maximum of nine years in prison.