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Billy Sol Estes and The Frito Bandito Chapter Three

Enter again a world of treachery and intrigue; a world of religion and money. If you are new to the story, refresh your memory by reading earlier chapters here and here.

"Church growth has been very very good to me," thought the Frito Bandito. "Where is there MORE money?" The answer would come in the form of a philantropic Foundation.

In Texas, it is not uncommon to earn lots and lots of moola or as Frito might say, dinero. But sometimes the piles of the stuff get so high that the Federales take becomes too painful for the Gotrocks family to bear. BAM!! The Gotrocks foundation comes into existence ex nihilo. And a flow of altruism and cash is created for the pet projects of the Gotrocks clan.

One such foundation was perfect for the Frito Bandito, the I Have Made So Much Money That I Don't Know What to Do With It and It's Time to Pay the Piper Foundation (IHMSMMTIDKWDWII). They had been spreading money around educational and religious organizations for years.

Frito created Vigero Church Planting and Growth Company, Inc. and said, "Give me your dinero and I will grow you some churches." Like a newly drilled oil well, the cash began to flow. Frito now had two suckers....uh sources of capital, the Very Big Organization For Getting Bucks From Lots of Churches (VBOFGBFLC) and The I Have Made So Much Money That I Don't Know What to Do With It and It's Time to Pay the Piper Foundation (IHMSMMTIDKWDWII).

The Frito Bandito was ready to Fiesta down some more.

To Be continued...

Billy Sol Estes and The Frito Bandito Chapter Two

The Frito Bandito served a church in what in Texas is known as the Valley. There are border towns, political intrigue (LBJ was known as "Landslide Lyndon" because of one VERY late reporting voting box in Duval County that sent him to Congress), and for the Bandito, an opportunity to scam a little money.

Frito found out that the VBOFGBFLC was providing seed money to start new churches. By testing the waters a bit it became apparent to him that there was little supervision or report checking and the game was on (which).

Ads were placed in newspapers in border towns for part time short term pastoral positions that were available. Poof "churches" started springing up in homes of Spanish speaking folk all over the valley. The money for the support of these churches began to flow heavily to the Frito Bandito.

At the annual meeting of the VBOFGBFLC, all was well. Reports were issued saying, "We are reaching the Valley and it's ever growing Mexican population with the good news of the Gospel."

"Amen," said the Frito Bandito.

More to come...

Billy Sol Estes and The Frito Bandito Chapter One

Texas con men like to think BIG. Billy Sol Estes was one of the biggest. Now there is one who is a small fry in terms of money probably stolen, but the creativity and gullibility found in the story are immense. Let's call him the Frito Bandito.

Billy Sol Estes was a rancher who lived and worked near No Trees, Texas which is Holyagnostic's home town. His con was to borrow massive amounts of money using non existent fertilizer (anhydrous ammonia) tanks as collateral.

The reason Billy Sol comes to Holy's mind is because he profited using not only other people's money, but also other people's imagination. The Frito Bandito has done exactly the same thing by using imaginary churches. The story has Texas written all over it. Religion, Ethnicity, Power, Money, Rich Gotrocks Foundations, are just a few of the elements involved.

Holy will give you a brief overview of the events as he has watched them unfold in reality and in a few blogs. His telling is not to say that he knows what happened, but it is what he THINKS happened.

First comes the Very Big Organization For Getting Bucks From Lots of Churches (VBOFGBFLC). Thousands of churches from all over the state send them a percentage of their ugh...gross receipts each month. One of the things that the VBOFGFLC does with these dollars is provide money for starting new churches.

Enter stage right, The Frito Bandito.

More to come...