Published news reports on local news stations indicate Commissioner John Wiley Price was arrested on charges related to the FBI’s three year investigation. Also his assistant Daphney Fain and political consultant Kathy Nealy were arrested as well reportedly.
At the end of June 2011, Price’s home and office was searched and the public became aware he was investigation. In March 2012, the FBI provided a peek at why Price was under investigation.
While some observes may have thought this hanging over Price’s head that he would be a prime candidate for knocking off the local political throne. However, Price was re-elected.
A press conference is scheduled for 11 a.m.
Price should seek federal protection in exchange for giving evidence against those who bribed him for the alleged honest services frauds. If the feds diligently developed this thread, they would find that it leads to evidence of corruption at the highest levels of the state and federal judiciary in the Northern District of Texas. It is interesting that the grand jury in the case against Price (3:14-cr-00293-M) was overseen by federal judge Barbara M. G. Lynn (as indicated by the “M” suffix on the case number). Just before being anointed as a federal judge, Lynn worked as a Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP partner defending Baron & Budd, P.C. President Fred Baron and Secretary Lisa Blue-Baron–one of Price’s benefactors and beneficiaries of Prices’ honest services frauds (http://www.scribd.com/doc/81083863/Case-MDL-No-2119-Document-198-Filed-02-02-12). Lynn and her firm were also instrumental in derailing state and federal grand jury investigations of evidence showing that B&B lawyers had bribed/extorted state judges into honest services frauds to cover-up the asbestos memorandum scandal (http://www.scribd.com/doc/221876320/FBI-FOIA-Request-Judge-Barbara-M-G-Lynn).
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