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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Their deal was such that some of the artists you listed were under contract to Atlantic, but recorded at the Stax studio, so they were thought of as Stax artists.
E.g., Sam & Dave were under contract to Atlantic, Otis Redding to Stax.
The deal ended in the late sixties with much acrimony, and some of the Atlantic artists never had another hit, like Sam & Dave.
Do we have a quorum?...hello, anyone here? Hello. Do we have a quorum?
Just did a Google street view tour of the town...not a lot going on that’s for sure.
The FBI should be in New Hampshire arresting the entire Clinton campaign, including Hillary and Bill! (Think he had nothing to do with it?)
Our city council only goes as far as taking bribes from red light camera vendors - they must feel so “small time” compared to these pros.
Now, if only they would act the same way towards the Mayors and other ‘officials” in Sanctuary Cities.....
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