Art Imitating Life Imitating Art Imitating Soetoro---or Once Is Never Enough

.................Usurper



Here's a another which came first, the chicken or the egg question? Step aside Sandra Bullock, we've got our own Michael Oher story The Blind Side here in Texas, via Florida by way of Haiti. We've got the Wright's instead of the Touhy's. We've got forged birf certificates, student bodies crying "Usurper" "Foul" and hopefully not statutory rape. We've got nullification of results. We've got naturalized citizenship not to be confused with Natural Born, (except for the forged birfer certificate offered) We've got a jailed imposter. We've got a basketball playin' fool. We might even have headed off the second black American president wannabe foreign born usurper. (you can thank us 13 years from now when said suspect turns 35). Baby we've got it all !

Never a dull moment in Texas !

Steve

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Permian hoops star turns out to be 22-year-old immigrant
The Odessa school may have to forfeit all its wins for the season
By JOEL A. ERICKSON
McClatchy Tribune
May 12, 2010, 1:20PM
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This booking photo provided Wednesday by the Ector County Sheriff shows Guerdwich Montimere, who passed himself off as a 16-year-old high schooler. Montimere is actually 22.

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Faced with the reality that Permian basketball player Jerry Joseph is actually Guerdwich Montimere, the Ector County Independent School District has submitted the results of its internal investigation to the District Executive Committee for review.

ECISD athletic director Leon Fuller and executive director of athletics Todd Vesely self-reported a violation of UIL rules after Montimere's arrest on Tuesday afternoon, Vesely said.

Because Montimere is actually a 22-year-old naturalized citizen who graduated from Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the Permian boys basketball team used an ineligible player in its fourth-place District 2-5A finish last season.

Under the circumstances, UIL assistant athletic director Peter Contreras — who was administering the Class 2A State Golf Championships in Austin on Tuesday — said he believes Permian will have to forfeit its 16 wins during the 2009-10 season.

“Every game he played, they're going to have to forfeit,” Contreras said. “That's the minimum penalty for playing an ineligible player.”

Contreras has not seen the case.

In his opinion, though, Montimere's scam may not result in further penalties for Permian or Panthers boys basketball coach Danny Wright.

“Usually, there are ramifications for both the school and the coach,” Contreras said. “But it's pretty obvious that this guy falsified all kinds of documents. I think, in the end, it will be very easy to prove that the school did their due diligence.”

When Montimere arrived at Permian in the spring of 2009, he presented a Haitian birth certificate for Jerry Joseph with a birthdate of Jan. 1, 1994.

Permian officials checked the birth certificate — Vesely said the birth certificate was compared with other Haitian birth certificates to verify its authenticity — and enrolled Joseph as a homeless student.

To qualify as homeless, a prospective student must pass an examination by Student Assistance Services, Permian principal Roy Garcia said.

“Normally, an SAS officer goes out, physically checks where they are living, and then they pass the information on to us,” Garcia said.

Living as Joseph, Montimere was taken in by Wright and his family.

Using the information presented to them by the school, ECISD athletic officials submitted Joseph's case to the District Executive Committee, which cleared Joseph to appeal and submit a waiver request to the UIL to play basketball last season.

The UIL granted the request.

“Our hope is that the UIL is going to recognize our due diligence in presenting this case, because the school based all of this on a false document,” Vesely said.

When a pair of AAU basketball coaches from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., tipped off Permian officials Joseph might actually be Montimere two weeks ago, Permian principal Roy Garcia notified both the District 2-5A executive committee and the District 3-5A executive committee, which will be the Panthers' district next year.

And after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials originally cleared Joseph of being Montimere, Garcia turned over the investigation to the ECISD athletic department.

“Todd and Leon kept in touch with the UIL the whole way,” ECISD spokesman Mike Adkins said.

Before they could submit the case to the UIL, Fuller and Vesely needed concrete evidence, Vesely said.

Montimere's arrest provided that evidence.

“We turned in the self-report when we had accurate evidence that he was not Jerry Joseph, that he was not 16 years old,” Vesely said.

None of the school officials contacted could put a timetable on the UIL's official decision.

“I had no reason to believe that he was none other than another ninth grader from one of my feeder schools,” Wright said. “I treated him like any other kid.”

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Montimere has been released from jail.


Ector County sheriff’s Sgt. Debbie Bruce said Montimere posted $500 bond Wednesday on a charge of failure to identify himself to a peace officer.

If convicted of the misdemeanor, Montimere could face up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500. Bruce said there was no record of an attorney for Montimere.


The player known as Jerry Joseph, who was 6-foot-5, was named newcomer of the year.