29 Facts About Carlos Uresti

Carlos "Charlie" Uresti was born on September 18,1963 and is an American attorney and Democratic politician from San Antonio, Texas.

In February 2018, Uresti was found guilty of 11 federal felony charges relating to his alleged involvement in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

On June 26,2018, Carlos Uresti was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.

Carlos Uresti surrendered to US marshals on February 19,2019.

In June 2023, Carlos Uresti was released from federal prison and will be in a halfway house until December 2024.

Carlos Uresti was born in San Antonio on September 18,1963, the youngest of eight children.

Carlos Uresti grew up on the south side of San Antonio and attended McCollum High School, where he was a part of the JROTC.

Carlos Uresti rose to the rank of captain and earned the Navy Achievement Medal during his four years of active duty as a combat engineer.

Two of his brothers are involved in San Antonio politics: Albert Carlos Uresti ran unsuccessfully for US Congress in 2006 and was elected tax assessor-collector of Bexar County in 2012, and Tomas Carlos Uresti was a member of the Texas House of Representatives in District 118.

Carlos Uresti entered state politics during the 1997 special election for Texas House District 118.

Carlos Uresti was elected to the Texas State Senate in 2006 representing Senate District 19, after challenging 13-year incumbent Frank Madla in a contentious and sometimes heated primary election.

Specifically, Carlos Uresti scrutinized Madla's role in a 2003 vote to remove 180,000 youngsters from the Children's Health Insurance Program.

In 2012, Carlos Uresti won by a significantly wider 19-point margin.

Carlos Uresti released a statement shortly after stating that he would fully cooperate with agents during their investigation.

Carlos Uresti subsequently acquired a $25,000 loan from Cantu and borrowed $75,000 from three other individuals, including one of his senate staff members.

Cantu separately filed a civil suit against Carlos Uresti, alleging fraud after she invested heavily in the failed FourWinds Logistics.

Cantu claims that Carlos Uresti "tricked" her with the investment and did not disclose that he received a $27,000 commission from FourWinds for successfully soliciting her business.

On May 16,2017, Carlos Uresti was indicted on two separate indictments by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Carlos Uresti is alleged to have taken money from Physicians Network Associates, which had a contract for medical services as the Reeves County Detention Center, a scheme which continued through PNA's successor companies.

Carlos Uresti is alleged to have pocketed about half of those bribes, giving Galindo the balance.

Bemporad said that the case against Carlos Uresti is tied to the wrongful death case that Watts' legal firm conducted on behalf of Denise Cantu.

In June 2018, Carlos Uresti was sentenced to 12 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.

Carlos Uresti was ordered to pay restitution to his victims in the amount of $6.3 million.

Carlos Uresti claimed she was his wife and produced a picture of the couple sitting together at the event.

Carlos Uresti has advocated for increased state investment in transportation infrastructure.

Carlos Uresti was a vocal critic of the TxDOT plan to replace heavily trafficked county roads with gravel.

Carlos Uresti has been a proponent of reform within the Child Protective Services, saying it needs to be better funded and needs reformed management practices, lower caseloads per worker, and higher salaries.

Carlos Uresti has pushed for more resources to be put towards abuse prevention.

Carlos Uresti had served in the Texas State Senate since 2006, having previously served in the Texas House of Representatives since 1997.