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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Most Corrupt County in Texas?


More judicial corruption emerges in Brownsville "A dozen people, half lawyers, have been indicted as part of a federal probe into what some observers call the most widespread case of judicial corruption they've ever seen. The saga has gripped the community in this southernmost tip of Texas (Brownsville, Cameron Co.).... "A cascade of indictments followed implicating a former state legislator, a former investigator from the prosecutor's office and most recently Villalobos. Federal wiretaps on Limas' phones intercepted some 40,000 calls, some of which have provided an ugly glimpse of justice behind closed doors where friendships and bribes among lawyers and judge sometimes tipped the scales against the legal process. "'I think people are even more horrified with each new accusation and revelation. It seems to be so extensive within the legal community,' said Anthony Knopp, professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas-Brownsville. Sicko Houston Lawyer From Houston Chronicle Stern's mistress accuses him of using sex, coercion in plot to kill his wife By Brian Rogers No one disputes that Bellaire attorney Jeffrey Stern had an affair with a woman who plotted three times to kill his wife. But fresh allegations detailing the depth - and deviance - of that illicit affair between Stern and his mistress are now thrusting this sordid tale into the realm of truly bizarre. Stern is facing new accusations that he used money, trips to Las Vegas and transsexual male prostitutes to court former paramour Michelle Gaiser then coerce her into hiring hitmen to kill his wife, recently filed court records allege.

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