The Dallas City Council has passed a significant ethics reform package -- and I'm taking a wee bit of the credit. It was through one of my columns, you see, that former Mayor Laura Miller gave her first and only...
Perhaps former Dallas City Council member and big-fish defendant Don Hill's attorney, Ray Jackson, will never admit this, but Hill did not serve himself well by taking the stand in his own defense. That's probably why none of the other...
....whether Sheila Farrington Hill's attorney, Victor Vital, is having second thoughts about allowing Hill's mistress-turned-wife take the ring. Ooops, I mean stand. Prosecutor Marcus Busch is pulling off his best Sugar Ray Leonard impression in the courtroom, and Hill is...
I was astonished to read this morning that U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn said she wants to keep the city hall corruption trial moving briskly. So it can be finished by... the end of October?! Those poor jurors. They began...
As I mentioned here, Bill Fisher, the affordable-housing developer-turned FBI informant-turned key/star government witness, is putting on a good show and making headway in the witness box. I'm headed back over for the final couple hours of testimony for the...
I've been over at the Earle Cabell Federal Courts building for the first couple of days of testimony, listening, watching, scratching my head at times. I've found ample room in Judge Barbara Lynn's 15th-floor courtroom. Heck, yesterday, I could have...
I was glad to see a summary of Paul Fieldings' fall from the Dallas City Council in our story today about Don Hill's trial. Fielding always comes to my mind when Hill and his cohorts grumble about a political vendetta...
Boy, I really was torn over which place I wanted to be this morning -- at the council festivities over at the Meyerson Symphony Center and City Hall, where a lot went down today--- or, over at the Earle Cabell...
Yet another defendant (lawyer John Lewis) in the ongoing City Hall public corruption case just pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Hill, who once had ambitions of being mayor. Prosecutors expect to file plea papers today for John Lewis,...
My intrepid colleague, Jason Trahan, takes note of ex-Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill's financial woes, which, as he mentioned, I alluded to in Saturday's column. My column, BTW, generated two extreme reactions: One reader accused me of being Mr....
Somebody really needs to help John McCain sort things out. Barack Obama offers a mild defense of himself against the absolute slime attack out there in e-mail land, and McCain pounces on him for playing the race card. No, senator,...
It's maddening and puzzling to watch the evidence mount that a guy as smart as Don Hill was running a shakedown machine out of his former city council office. It's getting harder and harder to imagine what kind of defense...
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