Texas Republican Party Chairman Steve Munisteri was elected to his position in 2010. "I'm humbled and honored that the delegates to the convention of the Republican Party of Texas have elected me," he said at the time.
But Chairman Munisteri hasn't always been filled with humility and honor. Far from it.
From 1997-2000, Munisteri managed the boxer Ikemefula "Ike" Ibeabuchi. In 1997, when Munisteri became Ibeabuchi's manager, the Nigerian national kidnapped his former girlfriend's son, stuffed him in his car, and crashed the car into a concrete pillar. The boy was severely injured and still cannot walk properly. The court determined that Ibeabuchi was trying to commit suicide with the boy in his car, giving him a meager 120 days of prison time and forced him to pay the boy's mother $500,000 in a civil settlement.
This terrible crime did not deter Munisteri from continuing to manage Ibeabuchi. "Ike has no criminal charges against him, no serious charges ended sticking, just a misdemeanour,' Munisteri, also a practicing attorney told the Vancouver Sun in 1999. "He had an incident with the law, it's resolved and we move on." "Just a misdemeanor" in which Ibeabuchi kidnapped and partially disabled a child.
"I planned his comeback," Munisteri boasted in a 2006 boxing blog interview. "After the Tua fight, and the injury to the child; he was incarcerated, and no one would touch him. He dropped out of the rankings." No one except for Munisteri that is, who was concerned only with making a buck by pushing Ibeabuchi's career forward.
That's only the beginning. It gets much worse.