After spending a few days in the hospital, Onésimo Cepeda, bishop of Ecatepec in Mexico State and a very close ally of Gover Enrique Peña Nieto, was released. He is facing charges of involvement in a huge fraud of valuable paintings worth an estimated $130 million - dollars, that is.
Yet given a reform to the article 55 of penal code in Mexico City in 2004, which stipulates that those over 70 with health problems may be placed in "house arrest" rather than in the dock, the bishop's heartattack - if there ever was one - may have saved him from prison. His own sister, Lily Cepeda, angrily denounced her bishop brother, claiming he faked it as a ploy to avoid prison or evoke sympathy.
When it comes to the more wacky and sinister members of the Mexican clergy such as Onésimo Cepeda, this would be less than shocking.
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Personally, I rely on the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Bishop Cepeda has said he loaned out $130 million dollars, and I am willing to take him at his word. He is a bishop and bishops always tell the truth, que no?
But I certainly am interested in hearing from Bishop Cepeda, where he got the $130 million dollars that he loaned away.
Good to know the Bishop (or is it the Mexican Catholic Conference?) is this flush.
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