Do reviews of G5 Internet Services and claims of net worth shed light into Richard Galvan’s character?

Although Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan are attempting to flood the internet with articles they are seemingly paying for, it’s very clear what customers and former employees opinions about Richard Galvan and G5 Internet Services are. Richard Galvan’s new website “www.richardgalvan.com” is being used to link paid articles about he and his wife Sonia, and their company G5 Internet Services. They seem to be doing this to bury the truth about his sexual deviant past, save face with their company’s negative reviews, as well as hide the court opinion. Their latest article discusses “Richard and Sonia Galvan Share Insight About Running a Company as a Married Couple” with tips on how to work with your spouse. The only tip Richard Galvan forgot to include was “cheat on your spouse and sexually assault a 17 year old teenage girl while having two young children at home”. which would have been an accurate statement coming from him. Below are some tips that Richard and Sonia share..

Below are reviews taken from Google from G5 Internet Services google page.

One review below states “As a former employee this company is super unprofessional and the owner Richard Galvan is money hungry. I can honestly say he is a false Christian and takes advantage of his customers and employees. This company is a waste of time and money! They scam everyone”.

Another review states “Terrible internet, this is by far the worst internet you can get. They will try and scam you out of your money. Don’t let yourself be a victim of the owner Richard Galvan”.

One more says “Worst customer and internet service I have ever experienced. I haven’t had internet in over two weeks and these people don’t pick up their phone. They even changed locations and never mentioned it in their websites or page. Ah, but the one they were able to do is charge me my monthly bill. This internet service is a SCAM. Don’t be a victim.”

These are just a few of the reviews. You can type “G5 Internet Services Mercedes Texas” in google to read them all. Some screenshots are below.

According to a few reviews – they claim Richard Galvan scams people out of their money, and takes advantage of his employees.

Richard Galvan also has publicly stated, and continues to say that he “completed his degree at the University of Texas”. This is a lie. In his depositions, he admitted he never went to UT, nor did he ever receive a college degree. You can go to https://ufind.name/Richard+Galvan and click the link on his name which directs you to his personal FB page. Here again he’s promoting that he attended the University of Texas in Austin.

Clearly shows Richard Galvan claims to have studied at the University of Texas at Austin. He said he NEVER attended there, nor did he ever receive a college degree.

Below taken from Google Search, Richard Galvan’s website “about” section again shows himself claiming to have attended, and completing his degree at UT. What’s even more shocking is that he created this website AFTER his depositions, where he admitted it was a lie.

Here, Richard Galvan (via his own personal website) is claiming to have completed his degree at the University of Texas. The lies the Galvan’s tell are staggering, and easily debunked.

In his Depositions and Written Discovery Richard Galvan claimed his Net Worth was $120,000 dollars. His company claims to supposedly have 7 million dollars in revenue. He also claimed G5 Internet Services didn’t profit that much in 2019. Are Richard and Sonia Galvan making false claims about how profitable their business is? This page looks to have been created by Richard Galvan. The link to the website is https://www.apollo.io/people/Richard/Galvan/54aba0987468692a6be1a901

Richard Galvan was previously arrested for prostitution.

In his deposition on page 212, Richard Galvan was asked if he had ever been arrested in the past for prostitution. He answered “no”. He was then shown court documents, and an affidavit for Warrant and Arrest by The Crews’s attorney from the District Attorney’s office in Travis County, Texas. After looking at the documents, Richard Galvan once again denied having knowledge of these court or arrest records. His attorney then asked to take a short break to discuss with her client Richard Galvan. After the break, Richard Galvan came back and changed his story, admitted to remembering the events as well as seeing the documents, and mentioned the case had been dismissed. It is amazing what a short break can do to ones memory.

Richard Galvan was also asked whether or not the officer E. Leach (who according to the records was propositioned for oral sex) was a man or a woman. Richard Galvan’s answer was “I don’t recall”. The records indicate that Richard Galvan agreed to engage in sexual conduct for a fee. The affidavit states “Richard Galvan offered and agreed to contact between the mouth of the said Richard Galvan and the genitals of E. Leach for a fee”. It would seem that per the documents, Richard Galvan agreed to perform oral sex on the officer for $15 (Fifteen Dollars). It would also seem that Richard Galvan was the prostitute in this arrest, as he was the one offering and agreeing to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer.

According to the records the charges for prostitution were in fact dismissed, due to the officer/informant being “reassigned and unavailable” for trial. It seems to be another instance of sexual misconduct where Richard Galvan was able to avoid prosecution. Clearly, Richard Galvan has had a long record of sexual deviancies and issues, as well as lying. The documents below are public record directly from the Travis County Courthouse.

Affidavit from Claude Ricks alleging Richard Galvan agreed to contact between the mouth of said Richard Galvan, and the genitals of E. Leach for a fee.

Affidavit from Patricia Barrera alleging Richard Galvan agreed to contact between the mouth of said Richard Galvan, and the genitals of E. Leach for a fee.

Affidavit for warrant of arrest and detention.

Showing the case was dismissed due to the officer being reassigned and unavailable for trial.

Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan seem to be paying for articles and domains. Why?

CEO’s of G5 Internet Services Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan seem to be paying for articles. Why would they do this? If you understand anything about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) it’s a very simple answer. The more content, the more likely your chances are to rank up in google/yahoo/bing, etc. Why would they be doing this now? Well, that answer is also simple- because they probably don’t want the opinion from the 13th Court of Appeals to be easily searchable. Fortunately, no matter how many companies they hire and pay, this website is getting an average of 300 views a month. It would be almost impossible for it to be outranked, no matter how much Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan would like it to be. Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan should have thought about reputation management prior to his 2007 sexual assault of a teenage girl.

*Another article from “accesswire” clearly showing a firm has been paid to flood the internet with generic articles.*

*Richard Galvan has also appeared to have purchased the rights to a domain with his name. It’s a simple tactic with SEO to hire a reputation management company.*

Are Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan trying to bury the court opinion?

The 13th Court of Appeals Opinion written by Chief Justice Dori Contreras was released in October of 2019. Multiple legal websites posted it (which you can find here) and with an easy search on Google you could find it just by typing the names of the parties involved. After a few months they began disappearing from Google Search one by one, until they couldn’t be found. Assuming this was done at the request of The Galvan’s, this website was created to ensure the public has free and easy access to the public information. Over the last month there have been multiple articles (like the one below) posted regarding Richard and Sonia Galvan and their company G5 Internet Services. The Galvan’s have assumingely hired a company for reputation management (which they discussed in their depositions), as well as have seemingly attempted to get the opinion of the court ranking lower on Google and harder to find through a simple search. There are blog posts being released almost daily (all of which say generically the same thing, and written in a way to boost SEO). Clearly, this is an attempt to try and bury the court opinion.

The opinion from the court is that this WAS and REMAINS a matter of public concern. The public has the right to know about Richard Galvan’s prior sexual misconduct, assault, and he and Sonia Galvan’s attempt to sue the victim into silence, despite how much they would like for it to be hidden by paying for generic articles which seem to be written by themselves (or from writers in Kenya).

**Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan appeared to have hired a company for reputation management.**

**Generic article from a paid company hired by Richard and Sonia Galvan**

**Another Generic paid article**
“As engaged members of the community, Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan support local, state, and international non-profit organizations. Most recently, they showed support for a battered women’s shelter in Nicaragua. They have served on numerous boards, directed local events, and sponsored many local activities. Sonia Galvan has served as a board member for Pregnancy Testing Center, a local, non-profit center for women that are pregnant. Richard Galvan has served as vice president for the City of Mercedes Economic Development Corporation for six years, FCA, and president for his local country club, and, until the pandemic hit, served on a cohort to build a new joint educational facility with Harlingen ISD and the University of Texas RGV.”
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Removed articles from various news sources.

All of these news articles were taken by screenshot off of the internet. During the pendency of the lawsuit filed by Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan against the Crews’s, the articles have mysteriously and interestingly been removed. These articles provide evidence that Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan seemingly tampered with the articles to have them removed and pulled off of the internet while also committing perjury in their depositions by denying under oath that they were ever youth pastors.

Depositions of Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan

Though the Galvan’s both deny (for the first time) that they were youth pastors in their depositions, below is an article from the Valley Morning Star in November, 2007 showing Richard and Sonia Galvan were both interviewed as the acknowledged Youth Pastors of the Northway Bible Church in Harlingen, Texas during all relevant times. There were also articles from The Brownsville Herald. Mysteriously, the articles (which were all searchable on google/yahoo) have since been removed after the lawsuit was filed- assumptively at the request of the Galvans. You can view articles that have been removed here

Along with the articles, the Crews’s provided written affidavits from the Pastor of Northway Bible Church, two former board members, a former youth member, and a church member whose children were a part of the youth group. They all stated under oath in sworn affidavits that the article from the Valley Morning Star was true and correct, and that Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan acted as youth ministers during 2007 when the sexual assault took place.

The Galvan’s had four affidavits, their original pleadings, their amended pleadings, as well as their brief and responses to the Court of Appeals, and not once did they deny their roles as youth ministers. Only until the Crews’s filed their counter-claim and the Galvan’s non-suited their claims for assault, public disclosure of private facts, intentional infliction of emotional distress, as well as the judgement ordered by the court dismissing their defamation per se claim did they decide to make these claims for the very first time.

Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan also for the first time decided to tell a different version of the events. From their first pleading, all the way through the court of appeals, to them non-suiting the rest of their claims, they stated “this is false” in regards to the Crews’s allegations. During their depositions (which was after they lost their defamation lawsuit, and after they non-suited their remaining claims) they decided it would be a good time to blame the victim (Hannah) for the sexual assault. They both claimed and now say that the 100 lb. 17 year old high school teenage girl was the aggressor, and overpowered Richard Galvan in his office against his will. Sonia Galvan (who wasn’t even there) agreed with this version of the events, seemingly by believing her husband’s ridiculous story. They had over a year to tell this story, yet failed to do so and solely stuck to “this is false, this is all false”. They are simply trying to save face at this point by making up things that no reasonably minded person would believe. The Galvan’s quite simply put, are pathological liars.

Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan also both admitted in their depositions that Blaine never threatened them or their children with imminent harm, yet the Galvan’s still sued the Crews’s for assault by threat. They both swore under oath when they signed their pleadings and affidavits, as well as asking for a permanent injunction, that Blaine threatened them and their children’s lives. None of this was true, it never was true, yet the Galvan’s swore under oath that it was. This is just one more example of the countless lies that they have told throughout this case.

Interestingly, the original lawsuit filed by the Galvan’s (now non-suited and/or dismissed) were regarding statements made by Blaine Crews. Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan continued to show their maliciousness by solely deposing Hannah and not Blaine, which has been consistent with the nature of their tactics in this case. The almost one million dollar lawsuit filed by Richard and Sonia Galvan was an attempt to bully, financially damage, and silence the victim (Hannah) and her husband about the sexual assault committed by Richard Galvan. Throughout this case the stories and versions of the events have changed numerous times with the Galvan’s. The Crews’s allegations, timelines, pleadings, and affidavits have stayed consistent throughout the entirety of the case.

You can view the signed orders for fees and sanctions, as well as the judgement dismissing the Galvan’s Defamation Per Se here

Richard Galvan also admitted in his depositions that he didn’t have a college degree, nor did he attend the University of Texas, yet he has claimed that he did. This screen shot taken from google showing Richard Galvan’s website (which was created for paid advertisements and SEO) shows him advertising that he completed his degree at the University of Texas. Also keep in mind this website was created after the depositions. Chalk this up to another lie.

From the description of Richard Galvan’s website, he claims he completed his degree at The University of Texas. In his depositions he admitted he didn’t have a degree.

See below for article from The Valley Morning Star, as well as the full transcripts of Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan’s depositions.

Richard Galvan Depo Download

Sonia Galvan Depo Download

Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan Sanctioned by the Court.

The Crews’s were awarded mandatory sanctions and fees on June 9th, 2020 by the 445th District Court in Cameron County and the Honorable Judge Gloria Rincones. This was in reference to the Crews’s winning their Anti-Slapp which can be found at http://www.crews-vs-richard-galvan-sonia-galvan.com

Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan, who initially brought the lawsuit against the Crews’s are ordered to pay $45,000 in Sanctions to deter them from filing frivolous lawsuits related to this matter again. They are also required to pay attorney fees in the amount of $25,800, and other costs of $1046 .50 and 567.87. All of Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan’s causes of action have either been dismissed or non-suited in this case. Plaintiffs Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan filed a motion for sanctions against the Crews’s as well as a motion for continuance- both of which were denied.

The Crews’s have filed a counter-claim against the Galvan’s for Malicious Prosecution and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress for the filing of their original lawsuit. This counter-suit is ongoing and pending.

Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan were deposed on May 14th and 15th of 2020. Those depositions are available here , including deposition transcripts and all other relevant court documents at https://portal.co.cameron.tx.us/portalprod then click “smart search” and type “galvan, richard” and find case

2018-DCL-06387

Richard Galvan,Sonia Galvan vs. Blaine Crews,Hannah Crews

Galvan-exhibits.Download

2018-DCL-06387-Order-Granting-Dismissal-with-Prejudice-Attorney-Fees-Costs-Expenses-and-Sanctions Download

Order Denying Plaintiff’s Motions For Continuance, and Motion For Sanctions.Download

What Constitutes Sexual Assault in Texas?

Sexual Assault in the church is rampant. Predators like Richard Galvan are attracted to positions in the church due to the easy access to young people, as well as the “forgiving” nature of most religious people. There is a great article written by a former FBI agent Joe Navarro regarding this very thing.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/201404/why-predators-are-attracted-careers-in-the-clergy?fbclid=IwAR1k0xhtnZR3rpPcqu7vAaaaaHSUQOYoP3sCR19HziYY9UyuCiD1xrvP-o8

Texas Penal Code Sec. 22.011

Sexual Assault

There was no dispute or objection from Richard Galvan or Sonia Galvan that they were ministers at their church youth group. Therefore the complained of communication was “a communication made in connection with a matter of public concern,” and thus, an exercise of Blaine Crews’ right of free speech.

Here, Blaine communicated that: Richard had sex with Hannah when she was seventeen years old and prior to her senior year of high school; Richard was her youth minister and pastor; Richard Galvan sexually seduced Hannah under the pretense of spiritual healing; Richard offered Hannah help to heal spiritually and emotionally after her break up with her high school boyfriend; and Richard told Hannah she was entrusting him to help her heal by giving him her virginity. Under the Texas Penal Code, a sexual assault occurs if “the actor is a clergyman who causes the other person to submit or participate by exploiting the other person’s emotional dependency on the clergyman in the clergyman’s professional character as spiritual adviser.” TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.011(b)(10) (defining sexual assault by a clergyman)

A sexual assault under Subsection (a)(1) is without the consent of the other person if:

(1)

the actor compels the other person to submit or participate by the use of physical force, violence, or coercion;

(2)

the actor compels the other person to submit or participate by threatening to use force or violence against the other person or to cause harm to the other person, and the other person believes that the actor has the present ability to execute the threat;

(3)

the other person has not consented and the actor knows the other person is unconscious or physically unable to resist;

(4)

the actor knows that as a result of mental disease or defect the other person is at the time of the sexual assault incapable either of appraising the nature of the act or of resisting it;

(5)

the other person has not consented and the actor knows the other person is unaware that the sexual assault is occurring;

(6)

the actor has intentionally impaired the other persons power to appraise or control the other persons conduct by administering any substance without the other persons knowledge;

(7)

the actor compels the other person to submit or participate by threatening to use force or violence against any person, and the other person believes that the actor has the ability to execute the threat;

(8)

the actor is a public servant who coerces the other person to submit or participate;

(9)

the actor is a mental health services provider or a health care services provider who causes the other person, who is a patient or former patient of the actor, to submit or participate by exploiting the other persons emotional dependency on the actor;

(10)

the actor is a clergyman who causes the other person to submit or participate by exploiting the other persons emotional dependency on the clergyman in the clergymans professional character as spiritual adviser;

(11)

the actor is an employee of a facility where the other person is a resident, unless the employee and resident are formally or informally married to each other under Chapter 2 (Child in Relation to the Family), Family Code; or

(12)

the actor is a health care services provider who, in the course of performing an assisted reproduction procedure on the other person, uses human reproductive material from a donor knowing that the other person has not expressly consented to the use of material from that donor.

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Timeline of Events Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan

In 2007 and prior to her senior year of high school in Harlingen, TX, Hannah Crews (then Linn) suffered a break up with her high school sweet heart. Her youth pastor Richard Galvan hired her at his office, and began to counsel her. Richard told Hannah that the reason she was heartbroken was because of the physical attachment she had developed with her ex-boyfriend and “that the physical aspect of it caused her to be spiritually connected to her ex-boyfriend’s soul.” Richard explained to Hannah that the way to heal from her break up was through intimacy.

According to Hannah:

Richard would then bait me with his questions, asking, ‘so what do you think you need to do to move on from this pain?’ Richard made me think I needed to respond with ‘having sex,’ since he had just explained that sex brought healing. He then shook his head yes and told me that he would ‘help me out with this.’ Richard again told me that completing this physical act of sex would heal me spiritually, since the two (physical intimacy and spirituality) were tied together. He also convinced me that since I trusted him as my mentor, it was safest to go about it this way (having sex with him instead of someone else).
Nothing happened that day physically between us. It still took many more conversations to convince me that having sex with him (Richard) would help me heal. I even asked him during a later conversation, “But that means you would be taking my virginity,” of which he got angry with me, stepped close to my face, and said sternly, “No, I am not taking your virginity, you are giving it to me, because you are entrusting me to help you heal.” Since I had deep love and admiration for his wife Sonia, I would also ask him how it was okay to do this since he was married. He convinced me, over and over, that this act was a strictly physical action for a spiritual healing for me and me alone. But he also told me that she would never know about this, so I didn’t have to worry about this hurting her.
Finally, after weeks and weeks of conversation and manipulation and coercion and convincing in Mr. Galvan’s office, at the beginning of volleyball season before school started in August of 2007, I agreed to meet Richard at the La Quinta hotel in Mercedes, TX. Richard was fearful of being discovered that day, and even thought a car across the street was a hired investigator that was possibly watching us. We went upstairs, I agreed to sexual acts, and lost my virginity that day. Afterwards, I had to go to school and travel with my team to play in the first volleyball tournament of the pre-season. I was still 17 years old. And that was the first and last time I agreed to do anything physical with Richard Galvan for the rest of my life.
Hannah’s mother found out and confronted Richard. Richard then went to Hannah’s parents house and admitted what had happened to Hannah’s mother.

In October 2018, Hannah told her husband Blaine the details of the events that occurred. After learning of Richard Galvan’s identity, Blaine became very upset and obtained Sonia Galvan’s cell phone number and texted her. Richard called him back almost immediately. Blaine was concerned that Richard may “still be associating himself with youth and placing himself in a position to take advantage of other young women under his authority.” According to Blaine, during his conversation with Richard, Richard acknowledged that the events Blaine recounted about Richard’s sexual relationship with Hannah were true. Blaine told Richard and Sonia Galvan that he was concerned about Richard being around young women and that people needed the information about his interactions with Hannah to determine whether Richard should be around their daughters.

Blaine then called Calvary Christian School (where Richard and Sonia Galvan’s children attended, and Richard Galvan had coached the girls basketball team) and The Living-Way Family Church in Brownsville, TX (where the Galvan’s attended church). Blaine attempted numerous times to reach Pastors Bill Moore and Anne Moore and inform them of Richard’s past sexual misconduct with teenagers, especially since Richard and Sonia’s daughter was in the youth group there. Bill Moore and Anne Moore refused to speak about the matter to the Crews’s or the Crews’s attorney, and instead allowed their executive assistant Melissa Barerra-Sosa to sign a sworn affidavit attempting to assist the Galvan’s by stating “Blaine went from cordial to upset” after she told him the pastors wouldn’t speak to him. Since Richard was on the board for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in South Texas, he also reached out to them as well as the National FCA.

In or around November 2018, Richard and Sonia Galvan (The Galvan’s) filed a lawsuit against the Crews’s for Defamation Per Se, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Public Disclosure of Private Facts, and Civil Assault. The Crews’s filed a Motion to Dismiss via the Texas Anti-Slapp Statute on the grounds of freedom of speech in regards to a matters of public concern in which the trial court denied. They immediately appealed the decision and took it before the 13th Court of Appeals in Texas in which the Memorandum Opinion written by Chief Justice Dori Contreras reversed the judgement of the trial court, dismissing the Defamation per se cause of action. The Galvan’s have since nonsuited all of their remaining causes of action against the Crews’s.

On June 9th, 2020 the Crews’s were awarded mandatory fees and sanctions. Click here for more information. The Crews’s have filed a counter-suit for Malicious Prosecution and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. That claim is still pending jury trial set for February 2022.

A photo of Richard Galvan preaching to high school aged children during an FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) event. Though he and Sonia Galvan claim in their depositions neither of them held any kind of leadership role over young people.

Showing Richard Galvan coaching young women's basketball team. — One of the biggest concerns for Blaine Crews was that Richard Galvan was associating himself with young girls in a position of authority- like this photo above which shows him coaching a girls basketball team. Blaine (a father of a daughter himself), could not allow the previous admitted behavior of Richard Galvan to go unrecognized. It is the sole reason he contacted the schools, churches, and FCA organizations. The parents of girls just like the ones above have the right to know about Richard Galvan and Sonia Galvan. The girls faces have been blacked out to protect their identity.

Taken from The Valley Morning Star showing Richard Galvan involved with the HCISD (Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District). The opinion from the 13th Court of Appeals in Texas believes the public has the right to know about Richard Galvan’s sexual misconduct, as it pertains to a matter of public concern.

Richard Galvan’s involvement with HCISD.

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