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Heather Weigand is one of the people who cleans up the mess left behind by you happy hooker propagandists.

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A judge called Weigand “the central figure in the coverup conspiracy” and sentenced him to four years in prison.

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Weigand immediately realized that the ruins in Oconahua followed the same architectural plan as the tecpan shown in the codex, the only difference being that the Ocomo Palace was far older than the one at Texcoco, having been built between 500 and 1100 A.D. during several phases of construction.

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

Archeologist Phil Weigand, who has been studying and excavating ruins in western Mexico for most of his life, first suspected there was something archeologically significant in Oconahua over 50 years ago.

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

"The scale model is a bit imaginative," says Weigand, "but it gives a good idea of what the magnificent Palacio de Ocomo must have looked like."

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

The full impact of what he had found did not hit Weigand until seven years later when he first laid eyes on a copy of the Quinatzín Codex, a sixteenth-century pictorial document from Mexico originally written on paper made from the amate fig tree.

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

When Phil and Acelia Weigand suggested initiating an excavation of the Ocomo Palace, municipal authorities in Etzatlán put up strong resistance, claiming there was nothing of archeological importance in Ocanahua.

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

"My wife Acelia was born nearby and came to Oconahua as a child," says Weigand.

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009

On the unusual size of Oconahua's palace, Weigand says:

The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009