John Wiley Price

John Wiley Price Seems to Be Calling For the Crucifixion of "Fake Jesus" Mike Miles

John Wiley Price first inserted himself into the debate over school reform in Dallas ISD when he showed up at a November board meeting to lambast Superintendent Mike Miles' heavy-handed attempts to enact change. His specific complaint then was the departure of longtime administrator Shirley Ison-New ... More >>

Judge Says John Wiley Price Can Fight for His Money, Throwing a Wrench in the FBI's Plans

A new court order in the federal corruption probe into John Wiley Price tilts the case in the county commissioner's favor, maybe just a little, maybe quite a lot. We all recall that in 2011 the FBI seized $229,590 from a safe in the Dallas County Commissioner's Oak Cliff home. Today's order by fed ... More >>

John Wiley Price Defends Sale of KKDA, Compares Himself to Noah

On New Years Day, listeners tuning their radio dial to 730 AM were treated not to the typical mix of old-school R&B and soul but a stream of unintelligible foreign syllables. Visiting the website informed them that KKDA, which had served southern Dallas for 42 years had, abruptly and unceremoniously ... More >>

Why Does John Wiley Price Keep Calling Guys Who Hire Prostitutes "Sponsors"?

In 2007, Dallas County began a prostitution diversion plan in which people caught selling sex are often funneled into treatment programs rather than simply locked up. The idea -- a fairly progressive one -- is that prostitutes are most often victims who become trapped in a vicious circle rather than ... More >>

John Wiley Price Chastises Superintendent Mike Miles: "This is No Way to Run a District"

John Wiley Price is not a fan of DISD superintendent Mike Miles. He made that much clear when he appeared before the yesterday's board briefing to chide Miles on his first few months with the district. "My problem is, this district seems to be in terror, and this is no way to run a district," Price ... More >>

Price is Wrong

How John Wiley Price spun money he didn't have into real estate gold.

In John Wiley Price Case, Dapheny Fain Makes it Clear: I Saw Nothing, I Know Nothing

We heard last week from John Wiley Price, who responded defiantly in the feds' ongoing effort to squeeze him on their way to a corruption case. It's a hail mary, he said of investigators' effort to sieze $229,000 found in a December raid, nothing more than an effort to "fill holes" in a case he clai ... More >>

Wayne White Called John Wiley Price a "Chicago Politician in Texas," Which is Looking Truer by the Filing

OK. Now I get why the FBI is taking so long with the investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. They actually have to figure out all the stuff I can just paint as colorful drama. And they're doing it. I haven't been keeping up with my John Wiley Price homework, or I would have me ... More >>

John Wiley Price Says Feds Took His Cash To Plug Holes of "Misguided" Criminal Case

Back in June, just after the federal government filed a lawsuit asking for the forfeiture of some $229,000 seized from the home of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, outside observers predicted that such a detailed public account of Price's allegedly criminal activities meant an indictment ... More >>

Judge Won't Halt Forfeiture of John Wiley Price's Seized Cash

Nearly half a million dollars seized by the FBI during its investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price are headed for civil forfeiture proceedings over the protestations of Price and his top aide, Dapheny Fain. Both say the thick stacks of $100 bills -- confiscated from a safe in P ... More >>

What Does A "Playful" Gavel Grab Look Like, Anyway? John Wiley Price's YouTube Channel Is Here To Show Us.

The folks over at the Morning News' City Hall blog alerted the world yesterday to County Commissioner John Wiley Price's Youtube channel, namely a video in which he calls out the "mainstream media" for running a "character assassination on our Black elected officials." He's not talking about the rep ... More >>

Two Months and Counting: Affidavit Outlines Price Case and Sets Clock Ticking on Indictments

It's Time to Kick Our Addiction to John Wiley Price

Pretty soon, any day now, maybe tomorrow, well, possibly in a week or so, I may join a 12-steps program in which I stand up at the beginning of every meeting and say, "Hi everybody, my name is Jim, and I can't stop talking about John Wiley Price." Not today. If you are visiting from out of town o ... More >>

FBI Agent Says John Wiley Price Stole and Laundered a Lot of Money

The FBI dropped a bombshell in federal court today with an affidavit by Special Agent Donald Sherman as to why, exactly, law enforcement felt the need to seize more than $400,000 in cash (thick stacks of $100 bills) and other assets from Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price last year. In br ... More >>

Clay Jenkins Hits the Wall in the Appointment of New Black Panther Party Founder

It looks like Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, long a puppet of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, finally has hit the Price wall. Jenkins has stopped action on the appointment of Price protégé Aaron McCarthy, aka Aaron Michaels, to the county's "homeland security advisory committee," w ... More >>

Price vs. Culbreath: Oh, You Know This'll Be Good

Santa brings political theater fans an early Christmas present.

"We Must Correct This Nightmare": Betty Culbreath to Take on Her Former Boss, JWP

​One month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board member, former Dallas Housing Authority chair, '07 Dallas City Council candidate, one-time chair of the City Plan Commission and longtime Friend of Unfair Park Betty Culbreath wrote on her blog that it's time for John Wiley Price to go. ... More >>

The Inland Port Is Still Screwed. Score One for the Perots.

​I guess if you took a pickax and a fire hose to it, you could have dug out a little bit of the truth from this morning's City Hall briefing on the inland port, but you needed to have your tall rubber boots on. Before we wade into the bullshit, please allow me to tell you what's really going ... More >>

And Now, "Artists Slammin' Cointelpro for Our Man Downtown John Wiley Price"

​That's the full title of the latest JWP protest being staged by the National Black United Front, not to be confused with the Judean People's Front or the Popular Front of Judea, who will return to the Pan-African Connection Bookstore across the street from Fair Park, scene of last month's overhea ... More >>

Kids, Trust No One. My Work Is Done Here.

​Oh, wouldn't you know I'd wind up agreeing with my opponent? You know what's wrong with me? I am just too damn much of a sweetheart, that's my problem. Too nice, too smart, too good-lookin'. I've got to drop at least one just to make things fair. So this morning I met on the field of battle ... More >>

Price Rally Lesson: Time for Plan B

The Lord doesn't always watch over fools.

JWP Rally, Making a Judas into a Saint

​I hate to say I told you so ... no, wait, that's a lie. I love to say I told you so. A week ago I said in column that we were about to see a lot of high opera in the John Wiley Price FBI corruption investigation. The season opens Saturday with Aida. As Unfair Park has reported, The National ... More >>

DA Craig Watkins Weighs In On Yesterday's Push-N-Shove Between Brett Shipp, JWP

WFAA-Channel 8​The video below, in which Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price explains the hard way to WFAA's Brett Shipp that his office isn't public property, has been updated; it's the piece that ran on Channel 8 last night at 10, in which you do hear Price tell Shipp, in a bizarrely cal ... More >>

J.L. Turner Legal Association Vows to Keep an Eye on Media During JWP Investigation

Photo by Sam Merten​The J.L. Turner Legal Association is better known as the African-American bar association in Dallas, and bills itself as "the oldest and largest national association of African-American and minority attorneys, jurists, legal scholars, and law students in the world." Its leaders ... More >>

John Wiley Price Investigation: Sure, We're Speculating Here, But It's Informed Speculation

​Look, I hate it when people tell me stuff and then won't tell me how they know it. I generally apply about a 50 percent discount to information like that. So I'm about to do the same thing to you: tell you a bunch of stuff I have been learning about the ongoing FBI public corruption investiga ... More >>

John Wiley Price and the Broken Bail Bond Board

The county bail bond board has long let the industry take a county for a ride. You'll never guess who's at the wheel.

Justice or Judgment Is Coming in John Wiley Price Probe. Let's See Who Gets Wet.

​OK, let's get over the thing about "no one has been indicted" in the ongoing federal corruption investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. It's true. No one has been indicted. But let's be real. Somebody will be. I am working on a column for next week's paper about behind ... More >>

Yesterday's "Justice For John" Keepsakes

From the handout provided at yesterday's fund-raising rally for John Wiley Price​Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked to read the entirety of the flier handed out yesterday at the "Justice for John" rally, so I've scanned it and put the whole thing after the jump -- where you'll also find the ... More >>

The John Wiley Price Investigation: Setting the Record Straight In More Ways Than One

​I need to correct an error and an omission. Yesterday I posted an item identifying the lawyer who defended Dallas County Judge Jim Foster from an intimidation attempt by Commissioner John Wiley Price as Ken Barr. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Ken Barr is a former mayor of Fort Worth and member of the ... More >>

So John Wiley Price Really Wanted Some Land...

...and with a little help from his charm, a crooked friend or two, some weird paperwork and his administrative assistant, he finally got it.

Praying to JC for JWP: Attending the South Dallas Rally for John Wiley Price

Photo by Brantley Hargrove​At Kirkwood Temple C.M.E. Church last night, 120 or so congregants petitioned an Ecclesiastical Court on behalf of a decidedly earthly cause: that of embattledDallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the target of a sweeping FBI probe. Matrons fanned themselves ... More >>

Fun With Audio, Part 2: EBJ and JWP Talk About the Inland Port, Kathy Nealy, Ross Jr. (and Me)

​This weekend I have been sitting around ruminating on the last three years of reporting I have done on the Inland Port story, which now seems to an element in the FBI corruption probe of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. By the way, I happen to know the FBI has been hearing about this ... More >>

John Wiley Price: Give the Devil His Due

And don't believe everything you read.

Watch Carefully as The Dallas Morning News Tippy-Toes Away from John Wiley Price

​If you are a regular reader of The Dallas Morning News, Dallas's only daily newspaper since 1991, and if you are following the federal corruption investigation of John Wiley Price, the county's most powerful black politician, then from here on out you need to put on your magnifying specs and ... More >>

Today in John Wiley Price

It's the "other expenses" that caught Channel 5's attention last night.​It's land! No, no, it's Kwanzaa Fest! No, silly, it's an art gallery owner at the South Side of Lamar! On the other side, some video and an IRS return we're entering into evidence as we begin Day Three of Hunh, I Wonder Why Th ... More >>

John Wiley Price Investigation: Commissioner Buys the Same Land Twice On the Same Day

Photo by Alex ScottJohn Wiley Price at attorney Billy Ravkind's office Monday afternoon​The story of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price runs deep. The FBI's investigation of Price will carry the feds back into local ancient history, according to the documents on my desk. Before the f ... More >>

You Gotta Get Up Pretty Early to Ask John Wiley Price About His Giant Car Collection

Schutze is taking in commissioners court this morning; it's part of his summer local-government internship program. I see John Wiley Price got there early -- why, there's a Channel 8 cameraman chatting him up as he walks into work 'round 5:30 in the a.m. First a ... More >>

John Wiley Price: Whatever the Feds Are After, It Probably Didn't Happen Decades Ago

​Yesterday I'm standing out in front of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price's house by Lake Cliff, and I get a phone call from a radio producer who wonders if I can come on air and talk about "John Wiley Price's lavish lifestyle and his history of having people roughed up." I'm thinki ... More >>

John Wiley Price Says He Has "No Idea" Why FBI Agents Are Going Through His Stuff

Photo by Alex Scott​I sent one of our interns, Alex Scott, to the law offices of on-and-off John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind about two hours ago. Turns out, John Wiley Price was there -- had been all morning. Moments ago he came out and spoke. And this is what he said:The Dallas County comm ... More >>

Picking a Mayor on a "Slow Saturday"

Photo by Nick RalloToni Pippins-Poole, Dallas County's Interim Elections Administrator, earlier this afternoon​We're, what, nine whole minute away from our first look at early-voting results ... like anyone cares. I spoke with Toni Pippins-Poole, Interim Dallas County Elections Administrator, earl ... More >>

Dallas County Commish John Wiley Price Loves Dallas, Pops Up In Random Show Promo Clip

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is an interesting character made only more interesting by the fact that he drives around town in an SUV wrapped with images of the downtown skyline and himself. And that's saying nothing of his cornrows and bowties. Dude's ballin'. Which is why it's kind ... More >>

Democrats! Are you going to let John Wiley Price run your party? Really?

John Wiley Price: "Y'all Wanted a Code of Conduct, You Got a Code of Conduct."

Photos by Sam MertenA protester across the street from the Dallas County Administration Building this morning.​The Dallas County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a new code of conduct for commissioners this morning in response to Commissioner John Wiley Price last week telling several ... More >>

John Wiley Price? Problem? What Problem? Nothing to See Here, Folks.

​I refuse to jump up and down and scream about John Wiley Price. There's this story floating around the media that they had to shut down yesterday's meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court because Price had a meltdown when some in the peanut gallery called him the county's "chief moolah." ... More >>

All Hail John Wiley Price, the King of Dallas County, Ruler of All He Surveys

​I watched that video of Tuesday's Dallas County Commissioner's Court meeting -- the one about Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and the firing of elections administrator Bruce Sherbet -- and I swear that Price was doing a whole new persona. He speaks now with a new gravitas, slowly ... More >>

Sherbet Is Out. Now Watch Who Gets Paid.

​In the '08 Obama/Clinton primary election, it was clear we had two Democratic Parties in Dallas County. We had the one that won that election -- the smart Obamacrats. And then we had the losers, the Dallas County Demacrooks, the usual suspects, the ones who took all that Clinton money but did ... More >>

John Wiley Price Profiled on NPR's Morning Edition. He Musta Loved Schutze's Cameo.

​Several Friends of Unfair Park wanted to make sure we directed your attention to National Public Radio's piece on Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, which aired on Morning Edition as a way of showcasing the blue city in a red state. A couple of minutes in, a certain Observer columnist m ... More >>

Hey, John Wiley, Give a Dog a Bone, Willya?

​Doesn't it seem like only yesterday that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price was telling everybody that County Judge Jim Foster was wacky? Now who wears the wacko jacket every week at commissioners court? This week Price harangued Foster for wanting to direct the county's constables to c ... More >>

Behind the Constables Investigation, JWP, KwanzaaFest and an Accommodation

​I want to confess in advance. I, Jim Schutze, am a party to the KwanzaaFest scandal. It's all going to come out now. I knew this would happen. I'm ready for my hands-over-the-face paddy wagon shot now. Rudy Bush has posted excerpts from the findings of Danny Defenbaugh, the private investigator l ... More >>

Sting Like a Butterfly: Hey, John Wiley Price, Are You Ready to Rumble?