First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new person for the job, and Roper, a President Bush appointee and a federal prosecutor for 21 years, figured it was better to jump now than get pushed later. Still, as recounted in the media release after
This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommunications services for all
eligible schools and libraries, particularly those in rural and
economically disadvantaged areas." And for the punishment listed below, you can thank, in part, one Ruben Bohuc
