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The book Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee was to be adapted into a film directed by John Singleton starring Billy Bob Thornton. Halle Berry was cast to play a lawyer in the film. Berry was to play an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The movie was never completed. [31]
Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) is an Austin-based non-profit group founded in 1997 to take on political corruption and corporate abuses in Texas, United States.Their early focus was on tracking campaign contributions in Texas and elsewhere, including contributions to George W. Bush's campaign in the 2000 and 2004 US presidential elections.
Sean Eberhart (R) State Representative, pled guilty to corruption and conspiracy, in exchange for future employment a gaming casino company) and at least $350,000. (2023) [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Brent Waltz (R) State Senator guilty of illegal campaign contributions making false statements to the FBI.
A Texas sheriff who's been the subject of years of complaints about dysfunction and corruption was repeatedly reported to state and federal law enforcement by his own deputies — yet an outside ...
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Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
By the late 1940s, corruption in Texas at the state and county levels was in decline, [11] while pressure against vice across the state and across the nation was on the rise. [10] Even San Antonio 's famed Sporting District , once one of the nation's largest red-light districts, was shut down in 1941. [ 90 ]