Posted on 07/25/2014 9:55:16 AM PDT by nralife
Longtime Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his top assistant were arrested Friday morning by the FBI on federal bribery conspiracy charges.
An indictment filed Wednesday and unsealed Friday morning lists the following charges against Price, who was taken into custody about 8 a.m.:
Conspiracy to Commit Bribery Concerning a Local Government Receiving Federal Benefits
Deprivation of Honest Services by Mail Fraud and Aiding and Abetting
Conspiracy to Defraud the Internal Revenue Service
Subscribing to a False and Fraudulent U.S. Individual Income Tax Return
"The indictment unsealed today alleges that for more than a decade, in a shocking betrayal of public trust, Commissioner Price sold his office on the Dallas County Commissioners Court in exchange for a steady stream of bribes," U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldaña said. "While the vast majority of public officials are honest and maintain high ethical standards, it is unfortunate that some, as alleged in this indictment, choose to serve themselves."
Price, 64, is accused of masterminding a criminal conspiracy that helped powerful companies win lucrative county contracts in exchange for bribes and of illegally funneling campaign money into his personal accounts. Federal authorities also allege that Price illegally profited from transactions involving Dallas County and companies operated by some of his associates.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
/johnny
"$950,000 in money, cash and cars."
Now, I wonder if they will tell us what they found in all those storage facilities in South Dallas?
One other county commissioner thinks that he was also dealing in drugs.
I see my law still holds...
Crim’s law ....
“If the party of a criminal offender isn’t listed in the first paragraph of an article....odds are, that offender is a Democrat.”
JWP has been skating free for a long time. Well get out the bullhorns now..’No Justice, No Peace’. Oh wait, Dems run the clown show in DC.
JWP has been untouchable to the degree that he has been pretty flagrant with his misdeeds here for years. Interestingly, the FBI lead has a Hispanic name. Maybe the Dems feel they have enough of a lock on that voting bloc to begin a little political ethnic cleansing...
Wily!
Yep, while struttin' around like a peacock. Looks like his windshield wiper busting days are over for a while.
Following in the fine steps of Willy Jefferson, Kwame Kilpatrick, Monica Conyers, Don Hill, Al Lipscomb, D’Angelo Lee, et al.
Cholly Wolly Rangel of NY can defraud the IRS and skate totally free since he’s a higher up critter on the Dem food chain of protection in DC. Poor JWP is a lowly County Commisioner and from Tx no less. All DemRat pols are equal but some DemRat pols are more equal than others.
Looks like the IRS hard drives didn’t crash on the JWP files.
He’ll scream racism in 3..2...1...He has a chip on his shoulder as big as the grand canyon.
About time!
So since they didn’t say in the first references, I can guess this is a dimorat??? Or is it just that long overstayed boot licking servant of crony capitalism and the US Chamber of Corruption???
I figured as much..... Always good to be on the gravy train (particularly with the ridiculous ‘do’ of corn rows)
I wonder if he just was stashing all that money in case Guam flipped over ;)
Corrupt racist bigot conman Price is the Dallas Al Sharpton.
Instead of specifying the crimes in each count of the indictment, it should be enough to simply say “being a democrat.”
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