EmptyTimCup
06-07-2012, 02:52 PM
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Dallas’ Most Entertaining Politician, Commissioner John Wiley Price, Targeted in FBI Probe a Day After He is Re-Elected in a Landslide (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/06/07/dallas-most-entertaining-politician-commissioner-john-wiley-price-targeted-in-fbi-probe-a-day-after-he-is-re-elected-in-a-landslide/)
As a blogger and a Dallas native, I have to confess some ambivalence about this story. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price represents all that is bad about big city politics — the corruption, the disingenuous strategic use of race, the rampant stupidity, the embarrassing corruption, and, by the way, the ridiculous corruption. In the extreme nature and morbid hilarity of its politics, Dallas is Detroit, delayed, but County Commissioner John Wiley Price does his best to speed things along in Big D. He hasn’t called anyone “Shrek” during a dignified commission meeting as far as I know (though he did, as commenter Mike reminds me, say to some constituents “All of you are white. Go to hell” last year), but “our man downtown” has his own brand of low comedy at the ready. What will we do, I ask you, if we lose the man who thinks the term “black hole,” along with “Black Friday” and pretty much anything else using “black” as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb or in any other way is “racist”? What. Will. We. Do?
I mean, once we stop laughing and can calm down the “I told you so’s,” what will we do if we lose John Wiley Price to jail?
A federal affidavit disclosed on Thursday that the FBI seized more than $460,000, along with expensive watches and other fine jewelry, as part of its corruption investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
The seizures include $229,590 in $100 bills … bundled in bank bags, one marked “cheerleaders,” …that was taken from a safe in Price’s Oak Cliff home.
“Cheerleaders”? There has to be a juicy story behind that one. Do tell, FBI.
The feds confiscated another $230,763 which they said had been given to Price when he sold property at 7001 Grady Niblo Road to a North Texas developer.
All the cash came from a money laundering scheme, bankruptcy fraud or “theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds,” according to the affidavit filed by FBI Agent Donald Sherman, the lead investigator in the corruption case against Price and several of his associates.
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There’s more.
Noting Price’s relatively average salary as a public servant, the affidavit cast a suspicious light on his seemingly extravagant lifestyle, including a half-million dollars in loans, gifts and payments from “a wealthy female friend.”
That money included $45,000 to help Price purchase a 2005 Bentley, one of several luxury cars mentioned in the court records.
A public servernt in a Bently ......... shesh whatever happened to a homeboy wanting a Caddy
are Caddys to low brow these days ....... Brotha wants a Bently
Dallas’ Most Entertaining Politician, Commissioner John Wiley Price, Targeted in FBI Probe a Day After He is Re-Elected in a Landslide (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/06/07/dallas-most-entertaining-politician-commissioner-john-wiley-price-targeted-in-fbi-probe-a-day-after-he-is-re-elected-in-a-landslide/)
As a blogger and a Dallas native, I have to confess some ambivalence about this story. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price represents all that is bad about big city politics — the corruption, the disingenuous strategic use of race, the rampant stupidity, the embarrassing corruption, and, by the way, the ridiculous corruption. In the extreme nature and morbid hilarity of its politics, Dallas is Detroit, delayed, but County Commissioner John Wiley Price does his best to speed things along in Big D. He hasn’t called anyone “Shrek” during a dignified commission meeting as far as I know (though he did, as commenter Mike reminds me, say to some constituents “All of you are white. Go to hell” last year), but “our man downtown” has his own brand of low comedy at the ready. What will we do, I ask you, if we lose the man who thinks the term “black hole,” along with “Black Friday” and pretty much anything else using “black” as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb or in any other way is “racist”? What. Will. We. Do?
I mean, once we stop laughing and can calm down the “I told you so’s,” what will we do if we lose John Wiley Price to jail?
A federal affidavit disclosed on Thursday that the FBI seized more than $460,000, along with expensive watches and other fine jewelry, as part of its corruption investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
The seizures include $229,590 in $100 bills … bundled in bank bags, one marked “cheerleaders,” …that was taken from a safe in Price’s Oak Cliff home.
“Cheerleaders”? There has to be a juicy story behind that one. Do tell, FBI.
The feds confiscated another $230,763 which they said had been given to Price when he sold property at 7001 Grady Niblo Road to a North Texas developer.
All the cash came from a money laundering scheme, bankruptcy fraud or “theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds,” according to the affidavit filed by FBI Agent Donald Sherman, the lead investigator in the corruption case against Price and several of his associates.
[clip]
There’s more.
Noting Price’s relatively average salary as a public servant, the affidavit cast a suspicious light on his seemingly extravagant lifestyle, including a half-million dollars in loans, gifts and payments from “a wealthy female friend.”
That money included $45,000 to help Price purchase a 2005 Bentley, one of several luxury cars mentioned in the court records.
A public servernt in a Bently ......... shesh whatever happened to a homeboy wanting a Caddy
are Caddys to low brow these days ....... Brotha wants a Bently