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Originally posted by mardyn
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And they wonder why they are still oppressed....
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The guy is a criminal and yet his peeps hold a rally to raise money to defend him!!! - http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/071...hn-wiley-price
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John Wiley Price Investigation: Sure, We're Speculating Here, But It's Informed Speculation
By Jim Schutze Fri., Jul. 29 2011 at 1:12 PM Categories: Get Off My Lawn
Look, I hate it when people tell me stuff and then won't tell me how they know it. I generally apply about a 50 percent discount to information like that. So I'm about to do the same thing to you: tell you a bunch of stuff I have been learning about the ongoing FBI public corruption investigation surrounding Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and then tell you I can't tell you who told me.
These are things I have learned from very good sources who have spoken to me on condition of anonymity. I invite you ... no, because you are the Friends of Unfair Park, it's more than that: I expect you to call bullshit on me. It's the price I must pay.
But here's what I am hearing, anyway:
The FBI investigation, which went public June 27 with raids and subpoenas, will run about another nine months before indictments. There will be indictments.
This will be an IRS case, to some significant degree, what's sometimes called a net worth case. FBI investigators are out beating the streets toting up everything Price has ever received for free or less than full price from anybody and everybody, including free haircuts. Did he declare those corn-rows? One day we will know.
The FBI has revised its dragnet backward at least once, asking for even older records than originally sought. Nobody I have talked to can figure out why.
There may or may not be some wrong ideas in the heads of the feds. They seem to think some of the companies they are looking into are plain-Jane false fronts. They're not. They're real companies that do real business. You can argue about how they get the business. But they are not transparently fake deals like some of the arrangements we saw in the 2009 Dallas City Hall federal corruption case that brought convictions of city council member Don Hill and several associates.
Those were fake. These are just iffy.
This case grew directly out of information the feds gleaned from witnesses in the Hill investigation and trial. It has everything to do with the Inland Port story. There is some anticipation -- not certainty but a sense of possibility -- that the FBI probe will go uphill from Price to include people who may have engaged in some tit-for-tat with him on major public policy issues.
Rich white men?
Price had more than cash in the safe the FBI opened in his house June 27. There were expensive watches -- already reported -- and gold bars. Don't know the value.
Both the government and the defense team are already talking to jury consultants. Billy Ravkind, lawyer for Price, told me he did mock jury studies in Dallas before the Al Lipscomb corruption trial in 2000 and found that Lipscomb needed two types of people on his jury in order to get an acquittal or a hung jury: black people and/or rich white men.
Rich white men?
Yeah. Ravkind said rich white men on his mock juries looked at the favors and piddly cash payments Lipscomb had received from businesses in return for favorable votes on the city council over the years and said, in Ravkind's words, "This is just bullshit."
The way of the world.
More on the jury consultants here Monday. Oh, by the way, I talked to them on the record and will name them, so you won't have to say, "Schutze is just bullshit." Which I invite you to say now. I'm not. But I invite you to say it anyway.Comment
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Schutze is blatantly biased against JWP, keep that in mind when reading his blog. Price is going to be indicted though, they've got way too much manpower on this already for him not to. It's only a matter of how far the corruption goes and who he's taking to prison with him.Comment
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In the Federal Justice system snitches become co-conspirators and will get indicted along with the person they are trying to tell on.
No way in hell Price will become a snitch. His only option is denial, denial, denial and to hope for a good jury. His lawyer is also top notch and I would say that his best odds will be to take the charges to trial.Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.Comment
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That's the warrant, but the Affidavit isn't there. I am sure that is "sealed" for now. That's what lays out the PC for the warrants. That's where all the details of the investigation are...Originally posted by BP View PostHere is the search warrant
They were in their legal right to do what they did.Comment
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There was a bit of an update on the 9pm channel 4 news about the Dallas health department (my father worked for them as a health inspector for 30 years and told me this was going to turn into a big deal a few years ago) getting screwed on some satellite equipment BIG time. JWP and one of his buddies were heavily involved in that deal. I'm pretty sure they will eventually nail that sorry scumbag and his buddies to a wall.Comment
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$600k for some dishes that have been sitting in storage ever since, taxpayers took a screwing on that. JWP got a sweet deal on some real estate out of it though. How he's paying for Kwanzaa fest is also up for speculation.Originally posted by ram57ta View Post
I did learn that antique shops are apparently a great place to launder money though, I wouldn't have ever thought of that one. Car washes, bingo parlors, strip clubs and vending companies were the only methods I knew of before.Comment
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I hope that racist asshole burns.
His actions/comments are almost always uncalled for but no one can do anything about it... till now I guess.
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Its 8:25am, 101* in the shade and JWP is still a low life piece of shit...Originally posted by SilverbackComment
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It's 6:05pm and John Wiley Price assaulted another reporter today."When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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That deal about the missing satellite equipment is about to bite JWP in the ass...
His assault this afternoon of Brett Shipp should get his crooked ass arrested and charged.
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Nah, he does that all the time.Originally posted by mardyn View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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Lulz, just saw that.Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View PostOriginally posted by BradMOriginally posted by LeahComment
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He also pulled the reporter aside to make it look like he was apologizing only to mumble threats of "splitting his neck/head" or something to that effect, but didn't realize the reporter was mic'd and being recorded.Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View Post
Now, if it were a white man shoving a black reporter, people would be up in arms over it calling for him to be arrested and fired.Comment
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He's the same dumb ass know-nothing thug he's always been. He's the Texas version of Mike Tyson.Originally posted by Steve View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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