Posted on 06/29/2009 4:13:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The prosecution in the corruption trial of former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and others gave jurors a tantalizing glimpse of what authorities called a web of intrigue in which black leaders solicited bribes from white developers because, they said, it was time for those developers to pay.
“The game has done changed,” defendant Darren Reagan is heard saying on an audio tape played during opening statements by the prosecution.
Defense opening statements were taking place this afternoon. In a surprising development, Hill's attorney, Ray Jackson, said his client would take the stand during the trial.
Prosecutors say Reagan used the Black State Employees Association, which represented no employees but orchestrated protests, to put pressure on white developers to pay bribes to Hill and others.
Reagan is heard saying on the recording that white developers had become wealthy off southern Dallas projects, and that it was time for them to pay.
On the wiretap recording, prosecutors say, Reagan is plotting with Allen McGill -- who has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion -- to squeeze money from Bill Fisher, a white developer who is the principal informant in the government’s case.
“I love to see old Bill sweating like a pig,” Reagan says to McGill on the recording, adding that, “the days of offering a few donations are over.”
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He must be bucking for an Obama justice position. All he has to do now is not pay his taxes and he’s a shoe-in.
FYI
What’s the racial makeup of the jury?
If we know that we know the verdict.
obamunism at its core.
LLS
Many shakedown rackets over the years have come to a bad end because the practitioners became too greedy. If these guys had only stayed content with the days of “donations” they could have remained respected statesmen in the Democratic Party.
“The game has done changed” is code for “we got a brother in the White House” apparently.
Wow...thought I was reading about Detroit, not Dallas.
All we have to do is to get 50% of whites to agree not to prosecute a white guy accused of crimes against blacks no matter what he has done.
It’s a matter of oj payback.
In a generation or two this will be the norm in America and there will be no to prosecute the offenders.
Based on what you say I’ll bet cash to anybody here the jury is unable to reach a verdict.
And so has the standard of literacy.
If you can't even speak English properly, how can you be expected to absorb the incredible abstract ideas it conveys?
If mere language is intellectually beyond you, can you be considered an adult human being?
If you are such an obvious illiterate, do you have any business engaging the justice system (other than as a defendant)?
Is the mayor Don Hill a member of the Vegetarian Party? Don’t see any other party listed. Wonder why?
Charges will be dropped after it is explained that Darren Reagan was working for Eric Holder in a “sting whitey” operation, and has immunity.
Now it looks like the sweat is on the other pig!
Take a look at the Dallas school system if you want to see corruption.
No. This all happened before last year’s election.
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