likely got him off from his DUI and attempt to flee from his arrest.
At 15 his Daddy paid for him to leave El Paso to attend an all male boarding school in VA. He also took that opportunity to escape from the nickname he now embraces and go by his given name, Robert.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-politics/2019/02/15/beto-orourke-went-robert-fit-elite-boarding-school-still-stuck-badly