Good points. There's got to be something unlawful, nevermind unethical, about all this.
Before anything...would have to find the statute/penal code that shows that what Burkett (or whoever else they worked with ) did was actually a crime as Pat Cadel's atty suggested it was. I am looking throught he Penal Code listings right now. I don't want to look through those statutes...I don't know what it goes under. An atty could probably find it in 2 minutes....
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/petoc.html
See
TITLE 4. INCHOATE OFFENSES
CHAPTER 15. PREPARATORY OFFENSES
§ 15.01. CRIMINAL ATTEMPT
§ 15.02. CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
You can click on the Chapter 15 bar (as with all other chapter listings....and it will open the Sections.
see posts 60 and 63.
Sure looks like they broke Texas law....
Gotta wonder what an atty would think of that.