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Low-Income Housing Developer Accused of Scheme to Defraud Government Out of Millions

​If nothing else, the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case provided us with a lesson on how you get tax credits to build low-income housing. Which should come in handy for those who want to follow this case filed in Dallas federal court on Friday: Monique Allen and UPCDC Texas, Inc. v. Noorall ... More >>

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

​If nothing else, the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case provided us with a lesson on how you get tax credits to build low-income housing. Which should come in handy for those who want to follow this case filed in Dallas federal court on Friday: Monique Allen and UPCDC Texas, Inc. v. Noorall ... More >>

No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?

​If nothing else, the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case provided us with a lesson on how you get tax credits to build low-income housing. Which should come in handy for those who want to follow this case filed in Dallas federal court on Friday: Monique Allen and UPCDC Texas, Inc. v. Noorall ... More >>

PlainsCapital Bank Took $87.6 Million in TARP Money. Now ... It's Payback Time! Or Not.

Look, Alan White, a salary cap would just mess up your hair anyway.On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn't publicly traded and did ... More >>

Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

Look, Alan White, a salary cap would just mess up your hair anyway.On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn't publicly traded and did ... More >>

Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

Look, Alan White, a salary cap would just mess up your hair anyway.On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn't publicly traded and did ... More >>

A Different Kind of Social Security Card

Look, Alan White, a salary cap would just mess up your hair anyway.On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn't publicly traded and did ... More >>

Dallas Man Wants Goverment to Account for All of Its Gold

Look, Alan White, a salary cap would just mess up your hair anyway.On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn't publicly traded and did ... More >>

Food for Kids or Terror Funding?

Look, Alan White, a salary cap would just mess up your hair anyway.On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn't publicly traded and did ... More >>

Closing the Book on Richardson's Boring (and Notorious?) Richard Chichakli

Look, Alan White, a salary cap would just mess up your hair anyway.On December 23, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank received a mighty generous Christmas present from the Treasury Department: $87.6 million in bailout bucks, which seemed like a lot given that PlainsCapital isn't publicly traded and did ... More >>

Man Without a Country

Gun dealer's alleged accountant comes up short

Chichakli Filleted By Local Federal Judge

Gun dealer's alleged accountant comes up short

Richard Chichakli Just Wants to Get Back to Richardson

Gun dealer's alleged accountant comes up short

Local Kids' Charity is Suing a Former Bush Administration Official for Libel

Gun dealer's alleged accountant comes up short

New Year? Try New Era

Gun dealer's alleged accountant comes up short

Secret Justice

Authorities allege Richard Chichakli was accountant to an illegal arms deal. Prove it, he says.

¡Ask a Mexican!

Authorities allege Richard Chichakli was accountant to an illegal arms deal. Prove it, he says.

RIght Cross

Is George W. Bush a conservative? Author Bruce Bartlett doesn't think so,

and saying that cost him his job.

Always a Bridesmaid

Skirt-chasing Vince Vaughn is Wedding Crashers' master of ceremonies

Best Errand Boy

Rangers G.M. Doug Melvin

The Resurrection of Sandy Kress

Or, how a Democrat and reviled former DISD board president found a happy home pushing "educational acoountability" for the GOP

Hook, Line, Stinker

Don't bite, even if Bait does

Havana good time

Brave Combo's Joe Cripps goes to Cuba, becomes friends with Peter Buck, and talks to Castro

Caught in the crossfire

Denied his day in court, a former Waco TV reporter, falsely accused of setting up federal agents, becomes the last casualty of the Branch Davidian siege

Letters

Denied his day in court, a former Waco TV reporter, falsely accused of setting up federal agents, becomes the last casualty of the Branch Davidian siege

We are the R.O.T.

The Enloes are Republic of Texas stalwarts, but they don't go for hostage-taking. They prefer using bogus money orders to battle "the eight banking families that control the world."

Taking Howard Stern seriously

The last interview you'll ever need to read with radio's greatest, loudest talker--and, just maybe, Hollywood's newest movie star

God and mammon

Kathy and Richard Kingsmore seemed like such nice church folk. But the Feds say their greed trumped their gospel.

Mr. Retardo

The making of a messiah: David Koresh's twisted road to Waco

Moncrief Family Values

A wealthy Fort Worth oil clan's court battle isn't just about millions. It's about pride. Miriam Rozen tells a tale of favored sons