A $5,000 Reward Still Names Jacó Attorneys While Costa Rica Extradited Gamboa And Pushed His Texas Trial To February 2027

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The cash offer has not moved. The AEGIS Alliance is still posting $5,000.00 USD for each arrest and conviction tied to a named list of Costa Rican public attorneys, a mayor, a judge, a notary, and the private actors Enzo Vincenzi says helped strip foreign investors of homes and a hotel in Jacó. The packet that carries those names went to President Rodrigo Chaves, then-U.S. Ambassador Cynthia A. Telles, and OIJ Director Randall Zúñiga. The zip of exhibits is still on this site. What moved, around the packet rather than inside it, is the government that received it, the ambassador who no longer sits in San José, and a separate cocaine case that Costa Rica was willing to put on a DEA airplane.

Reward for information leading to arrest and conviction

A $5,000.00 USD cash reward, each, is offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the following people, whom Vincenzi’s filings accuse of public corruption in Costa Rica:

• Attorney Norma Cayaso
• Fiscal Attorney Carlos Villegas Méndez
• Mayor Tobías Murillo
• Attorney José Juan Sánchez Chavarría
• Judge David Ricardo Madrigal
• Judicial official Sandra Morales
• Yamileth de los Ángeles Araya Lara “Mila”
• Myra Cecillia Villalobos Chacón
• Notary Sonia Villalobos Chacón (Cell: 10487061)
• Attorney Yorleni Díaz
• Junior Díaz (practicing law without a license)
• Immigration Attorney Andrea Díaz Berrocal
• Craig Anthony Atherton
• Attorney Christian Eduardo Zamora Sequeira

In those filings the names are tied to conflict of interest, what Vincenzi calls discriminatory hate crimes, conspiracy to commit murder, and falsified domestic-violence charges, two of which he says were lodged in the Costa Rican Supreme Court and at the Jacó police. Two U.S. citizens, Carly Huba and James Huba, are accused in the same packet of joining that effort, of publishing slander against Vincenzi and his hotel on TOP WIRE News, Medium, TripAdvisor, and Facebook, and of a scheme aimed at U.S. investors’ money and real estate, including his house and hotel. Those are allegations in a complaint and a set of exhibits. They are not a judgment. The AEGIS Alliance is publishing a reward because the names are specific and the documents can be downloaded, not because a tribunal in San José has convicted the list.

The desk that first received the packet does not look the way it did when the reward was posted. Ambassador Telles left the post on January 19, 2025. Ambassador Melinda “Mindy” Hildebrand presented credentials to President Chaves in San José on January 8, 2026, and the embassy said the safety of U.S. citizens would be a central part of her work. Four months later the presidency itself changed. On May 8, 2026, Laura Fernández was sworn in as president. The Associated Press reported that she kept Chaves inside the government as minister of the presidency and minister of finance, an arrangement that extends his legal immunity and shields him from several investigations already opened by prosecutors and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. The man the complaint was addressed to is no longer the head of state. He is a cabinet minister with a fresh layer of protection. Contact lines in the original offer that still name Telles are kept below as the historical record of who was asked to look at the file, not as a claim that she is still ambassador or that Chaves is still president.

Vincenzi’s theory of the fraud is a residency trap with a courthouse exit. Foreign buyers are told that $150,000 or more buys a path to Costa Rican residency and a clean title. He says the attorneys who were supposed to walk those filings instead blocked them, manufactured criminal paper — including domestic-violence counts he calls fabricated — and then watched liens and lawsuits land in the National Registry. Once the investor is out of the country, a lien is easier to defend than a person standing in a Jacó courtroom. He calls that sequence a hate crime against U.S., Canadian, and other foreign owners. Readers can test the claim against the exhibits rather than against a slogan. The download sits at the bottom of this page. The longer narrative is in The Costa Rica Conspiracy, A Corruption Nexus Exposed, Left in Peril, and the whistleblower file on the Gamboa extradition.

Those later stories are the weather around this reward. They are not the same case. Costa Rica amended its constitution in 2025 so that its own citizens can be extradited on drug-trafficking and terrorism charges. On March 20, 2026, the country put former security minister and former Supreme Court magistrate Celso Manuel Gamboa Sánchez, and Edwin López Vega, known as Pecho de Rata, on a U.S. aircraft bound for the Eastern District of Texas. It was the first extradition of Costa Rican nationals in the country’s history. A grand jury there accuses Gamboa of conspiring to move cocaine toward the United States and of offering access to judicial information and institutional contacts. That is a narcotics indictment. It is not a verdict on Norma Cayaso, Carlos Villegas Méndez, Tobías Murillo, David Ricardo Madrigal, or anyone else on the reward list.

The Texas calendar then slipped. Defense lawyer Rafael de la Garza asked the court on September 1, 2026, to push every date by 120 days, telling the judge the defense had opened its own inquiry in Costa Rica and still had most of the government’s evidence to review. The Tico Times reported that the schedule being displaced had set a pretrial hearing for September 30 and a jury trial for October 5, and that U.S. prosecutors did not oppose the continuance. On September 17, Noticias Monumental reported that the trial against Gamboa in Texas had been postponed until February 2027. He remains in custody there. The drug case is moving slowly. The investor-fraud names on this page are not moving at all in any public conviction The AEGIS Alliance can cite.

San José did show, in a different courtroom, that it will still chase the network Gamboa left behind. El País reported on June 29, 2026, that a judicial operation detained about 50 people and seized assets valued at $22 million tied to the group that kept operating after the extradition, including activity around a Cahuita restaurant described as a hub. President Fernández, who had promised a “war” on crime in her May 8 inaugural address and who has been openly hostile to judicial budgets, used the moment to attack precautionary release rather than to praise the raid. Phone videos attributed to López Vega — cash, rifles, beach landings — circulated in the Costa Rican press in September and prompted a separate argument about who is allowed to hold evidence that was supposed to travel with the DEA. None of that paper names the Jacó attorneys on this reward. It does show which kind of corruption the state has decided is urgent.

Travel advice has been steadier than the politics. The U.S. Department of State advisory for Costa Rica issued April 2, 2026, is Level 2, “Exercise Increased Caution,” because of crime. It is not Level 3. Reporting in late May, when Ambassador Hildebrand visited Guanacaste Airport to push the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, still described that Level 2 warning, along with rip currents that drown visitors every year. Canada and the United Kingdom publish their own crime cautions. None of those advisories decides Vincenzi’s claims. They describe a map on which a property fight and a street crime can occupy the same week.

Anyone with information that can support an arrest and a conviction of the people named above is asked to use the lines published with the original offer:

• U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, the mission that received the packet when Cynthia A. Telles was ambassador
  Phone: +506 *******00
• OIJ, the office of Director Randall Zúñiga as addressed on the original complaint
  Confidential line: 800 8000 645
  Email: oi********@***************go.cr
• Enzo Vincenzi
  Phone: +506 *******22
  Email: oc************@***il.com
• U.S. Attorney Elliot S. Schessel
  Phone: +1 51********16
  Website: www.nywillsandtrustslawyer.com

Enzo Vincenzi — organized crime conspiracy criminal complaint, evidence download:
https://theaegisalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/Downloads/9-07-2024-enzo-vincenzi-criminal-complaint.zip

The video that travels with the reward is The Costa Rica Conspiracy: Unraveling the Web of Corruption and Deceit – A Warning to American Investors. Outside explainers remain at the tourism-and-corruption brief and Vincenzi’s published legal-concern statement. Readers who want the category file can start in International News and Politics.

One number has to stay boring so the headline does not do the lying. The reward is $5,000.00 USD for each arrest and conviction, not a single pooled $25,000. The slug on this URL still carries the older figure. The body controls. A tip that does not produce both an arrest and a conviction does not collect. The AEGIS Alliance is not a court and not the OIJ. It is the publisher of a list, a zip file, and a price on convictions that have not been entered, while the country that was asked to read the packet has since extradited a former magistrate for cocaine and postponed that trial into February 2027.