Say WUT, FOOL! I ain't alleged!
Posted on 02/08/2016 9:19:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The next few city council meetings in Crystal City, TX are going to be pretty quiet.
On Thursday, FBI agents arrested a majority of the town's top officials, including the mayor, mayor pro tempore, city manager, and a current city council member, as well as a former council member, The Washington Post reports. FBI agents also arrested Ngoc Tri Nguyen, an alleged gambling operator, nicknamed "Mr. T."
A federal indictment (PDF) accused the town officials of taking thousands of dollars in bribes, and of helping Nguyen run the illegal gambling operation. Ricardo Lopez, Crystal City's mayor, was accused of accepting a $6,000 bribe from Nguyen.
Last month, a different council member, Marco Rodriguez, was arrested on charges of human smuggling. San Antonio's KENS5 reports that Rodriguez admitted to smuggling undocumented immigrants across the U.S. border.
With everyone else arrested, councilman Joel Barajas was the only council member to show up to work on Friday, The Washington Post reports. "We need to move forward," Barajas told The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear what moving forward will look like for Crystal City.
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BFL.
Well, it was fun while it lasted . . . :-)
Maybe the FBI should look a little closer to their HQ for their next set of crooks. Somewhere in DC perhaps...
A Viet Namese gambling? A latino smuggling humans? What’s the world coming too?
Say WUT, FOOL! I ain't alleged!
Area .. 3.4 mi
Population update 7,393 or there abouts.
She falls to her knees, Bill drapes a cape over her shoulders and helps her offstage, but she straightens up, throws off the cape and comes back to the mic.
Fundamental transformation.
But ... yeah ... funny
Blew away the rest of the TAMI Show!
MOTOWN sealed it.
Diversity makes us strong.®
And Stax!
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Angel Sessions
The Astors
The Bar-Kays
William Bell
Big Star
Black Nasty
Booker T
Booker T. & The M.G.’s
Shirley Brown
Veda Brown
Gus Cannon
Felix Cavaliere
Judy Clay
Nikka Costa
Steve Cropper
Delaney & Bonnie
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Doug MacLeod Band
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Warren Haynes
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Mable John
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Jean Knight
Barbara Lewis
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Teena Marie
The Mar-Keys
Jimmy McCracklin
Mel And Tim
Dorothy Moore
Charlie Musselwhite
N’dambi
Ollie & The Nightingales
Freda Payne
David Porter
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
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L. J. Reynolds
Sam & Dave
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Leon Ware
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Stax was great. Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes, Booker T and the MGs.
They had a Memphis recording studio in a converted movie house. Classic sound from the sloped floor.
They had a distribution deal with Atlantic Records, who’d put together “Super Hits” albums with cuts from various artists, so on the same album, you’d get hits by the Atlantic artists (like Cream) together with soul hits from Stax.
Yeah, I saw the familiar names, but I never knew they were off of a different label
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