Showing posts with label bribery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bribery. Show all posts
Friday, January 31, 2020

Confronting racism at Austin PD, ↓ TX solitary numbers may be an illusion, driver license suspensions not enhancing collections, Big-D bail reform collapses into confusion, and other stories

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Here are a few odd and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Racial bias and disparities at Austin PD A new report from the Austi...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Gifts or Bribes? Prosecutor took donations from defendants who received leniency

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This is a rather stunning story out of Brown County , and affirms why it was never a good idea to allow prosecutors to accept bribes gifts ...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Are Texas Rangers incompetent to confront corruption, or just disincentivized?

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Does corruption flourish in Texas because of incompetent state-level law enforcement? A San Antonio Express News story documenting South Te...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

South Texas corruption scandal deepens, prison warden arrested, state rep implicated

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Yikes! A private prison warden has been arrested in South Texas as part of an ongoing federal corruption scandal for allegedly bribing a co...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Roundup: Of drones, drugs, and DA elections

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Here are several items that merit Grits readers attention but haven't made it into individual posts: Craig Watkins' fumbling Dalla...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Roundup: Expensive jails, paid-for pols, broken grand juries, and flawed forensics

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Here are a few odds and ends that haven't made it into full, individual posts since my return from Mexico City but which still deserve G...
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Friday, May 16, 2014

Roundup: Rogue cops and DWI news

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Here are a few items that merit Grits readers' attention but haven't made it into independent posts this week: Dallas settles anot...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Hidalgo Sheriff, associates plead guilty to money laundering, bribery related to drug trafficker

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You know, the Sheriff's got his problems too. He will surely take them out on you. - Warren Zevon, Mohammed's Radio Reported...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

SA judicial bribery case unfolding

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The SA Express-News reported today that: A San Antonio lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to bribing a state district judge in exchange for fav...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge

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Reported the SA Express-News today : Republican state District Judge Angus McGinty is expected to resign as soon as Friday amid allegati...
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Saturday, February 08, 2014

Jarrell police chief engaged in fraud, and other police misconduct news

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This is one of the more crass examples of law-enforcement fraud I've run across recently. Reported the Austin Statesman : The former p...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Texas among states where former red-light camera exec says company gave illicit gifts, bribes

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Reported the Chicago Tribune last week , "A fired executive of Chicago's beleaguered red light camera company alleges in a lawsuit...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

Judge: Cameron County corruption beggars belief

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On New Year's Day, the Valley Morning Star published an extensive account of judicial and prosecutorial corruption in a story tiled ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Justice for Sale: Cameron judge took bags of cash to influence court outcomes

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Via AP (Aug. 21), here's the denouement of an  extraordinarily ugly story of South Texas corruption: A former judge who turned his So...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Roundup: Top stories cropping up during Grits' recent absence

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Grits is still poking around at news stories that cropped up while this blog was on a brief hiatus and thought I'd share a few that may ...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

TX parole officers allegedly taxed parolee drug dealers, Evins JCOs arrested for official oppression

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Depressing story of corruption out of the Houston parole office from the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward, whose story (" Parole office...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Former Cameron DA convicted of bribery

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Reported the Houston Chronicle (" Former DA convicted in corruption trial ," May 24), "A jury on Friday night found former Ca...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

TCLEOSE licensed felon who allegedly took cartel bribes, LE agencies faked training

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If you've never heard of the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education, with its awkward acronym TCLEOSE, you ...
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Monday, October 01, 2012

Criminal corporations: Prof argues 'corporate criminal liability is a question of corporate power'

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The US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, famously echoed by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, held that corporations are peo...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Head of UTEP Criminal Justice Program resigns amidst corruption scandal

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The head of the University of Texas at El Paso's Criminal Justice Program recently resigned amidst allegations of impropriety and corrup...