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Political intrigue at San Antonio health care company WellMed
For more than 14 years, he served the San Antonio-based operator of clinics for seniors as an executive-level consultant. In reality, his job was anything but boring. He was the “right-hand man or political fixer” for Dr. George M. Rapier III, WellMed’s founder, chairman and CEO, said Donald H. Flanary III, a lawyer for Gutierrez. That all came to an end last year when a San Antonio federal grand jury indicted Gutierrez for illegally using hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations Rapier and his then-wife intended for two nonprofit organizations. Gutierrez has since pleaded guilty to two of the indictment’s 10 counts. But before he took a plea, he…