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Billions of dollars in Unclaimed Royalties Paid by Oil & Gas Companies Gone Missing in Texas Since the Oil Boom & 1986 Getty Agreement  according the Spanish Land Grant Heirs in Texas who were abandoned by their Attorneys

Since the land grants were given to them by the Spanish Crown and Mexico, they have been fighting to obtain their unclaimed mineral royalties. A story you can find on our network.

They have been cheated from the trillions of royalty dollars paid into the state not to mention the royalties that are not being paid, unreported, or unaccounted for according to a story on the Voice of Change Network.

Over 12,000 descendants certified as the original land grantees & declared as legal heirs want justice. They have repeatedly filed for royalty payment claims but been denied by the state of Texas.

In 1986, the Getty Oil Company and 31 other Oil companies sued the State of Texas and lost.  The state set up a trust fund, and the Oil and Gas Companies had to fund it with $50 million to get started then, begin paying into that fund royalties for the unclaimed wells they were drilling.

But in a commission 35 years later, the State Comptroller of Texas admitted she was missing payments, reportings and funds that were supposed to be paid in when their attorney Eileen Fowler presented her with a list of unclaimed wells.  They put those payments in a general fund she said instead of a trust fund but promised the State is not spending the money.

San Antonio personal injury lawyer, Thomas J. Henry, routinely gets settlement in the $35-$50 million range for his clients, so the possible proposed damage figure of $250 billion for about 5,600 adjudicated heirs did not seem out of line.

According to the Voice of Change new investigation, that number could be in the Trillions.

After attempts for justice have failed, they are now going public and hope to capture the attention of the national and international media.  There intent is to make it easier for a new federal attorney to help them obtain justice.

Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Heirs Seeking Justice for Mineral Rights in Texas Press Release

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