By Maverick
Yolanda Saldivar supposedly ran the Selena Y Los Dinos fan club for over 3 years, depending on who you ask. According to Selena’s family, she was running the boutique until early 1995, while simultaneously running Selena’s boutiques and business financials. Common sense would tell you that one person couldn’t have micromanaged multiple businesses, especially since Yolanda never majored in business in any type of school or had acquired any experience anywhere prior. Yolanda’s family and Yolanda herself claimed that she wasn’t working for the fan club in early 1995, to even be accused of embezzlement and memorabilia not getting delivered to fan club members. Yolanda had a job as Selena’s personal assistant, which took up a majority of her time. Now that makes sense, but again, it all boils down to who you would rather believe or just analyze the evidence objectively to determine what is fact over fiction.
Another pertinent question one might ask is what money did Yolanda use to open up the fan club checking account that she had registered in her sister’s name? Even back in the early 90s, all banks required an account holder to deposit a minimum balance, so what amount and whose money did Yolanda deposit to initially open the account? It’s uncertain when Yolanda opened this checking account, but according to checks that Abraham Quintanilla has showed to the public, it was alleged that the embezzlement commenced sometime in 1991, not long after she shoehorned herself in as President by relentlessly persuading Abraham to agree to start a fan club in the first place. At least that’s how Abraham claims it all went down. We don’t know the full truth, unfortunately.
How did Yolanda even cash these checks in the first place? One check in particular shows her sister’s signature in what appears to be Yolanda’s handwriting atop the account holder’s or payor’s line. Wouldn’t any teller at the bank have recognized that she forged the signature of her sister so that she could pay herself, since she also wrote her name atop the payee line, or who the check gets endorsed to? What kind of screwy nonsense was occurring at the banks that Yolanda frequented when managing this particular fan club checking account?
Let’s just say hypothetically that it was ignorance stemming from the bank, why the hell haven’t there been any additional charges filed to prosecute her for bank fraud and forging checks, which is a federal crime nonetheless? Who cares if you just booked her for first-degree murder? Other crimes were committed here, allegedly. Yet we’re supposed to believe this outlandish, convoluted story perpetuated by Abraham, the Quintanilla family, and those who prosecuted Yolanda? They seem to want everyone distracted and invested in their emotions, clouding their better judgment, putting the blanket on the truth. Just to be perfectly clear, I am not, nor would I ever defend Yolanda, but these pertinent questions have to be addressed since it’s abundantly clear that the public has not been given the full truth about the events leading up to Selena’s death.
