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…
Late yesterday, Don Hill’s PR man, Ken Carter, sent to media an objection filed in federal court in which the former Dallas mayor pro tem and his wife, Sheila Farrington, want U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn to keep from the public’s prying ears the feds’ “audio-visual evidence” against the two…
A motion was filed in federal court today in the Dallas City Hall public corruption case in which developer Brian Potashnik’s high-priced, high-profile attorneys tell the feds that their client’s all good and really doesn’t need to see their evidence, but thanks. Brian and Cheryl Potashnik, of course, weren’t in…
This morning, a Very Special Unfair Park Correspondent — which is to say, Herschel Wilonsky, my dad — found himself in U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s courtroom for Don Hill’s contempt of court proceedings. Lynn didn’t rule this morning, except to say last night’s prayer vigil didn’t violate her initial…
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s public corruption case finally heads into an Earle Cabell Federal Building courtroom tomorrow morning, shortly before the Dallas City Council is sworn in at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center one mile away. But tonight, just outside the building on Commerce Street downtown,…
Thursday morning, I asked publicist Ken Carter — who, very helpfully, has been sending out press releases on former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s behalf in advance of his corruption trial — if he thought doing so violated U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s gag order, which is now one…
I finally got a hold of that letter the South Dallas pastors sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder concerning Don Hill’s case, scheduled to go to trial next week. In the missive, they demand “FAIR JUSTICE” for the former mayor pro tem. “We find this case appalling,” they write…
We’re still waiting on the preachers’ letter to U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, but in an interview with Gromer Jeffers Jr. just posted to The Dallas Morning News Web site, Don Hill yet again claims he’s being subjected to federal prosecution and persecution because, look, he’s a Democrat and not because…
And the press releases keep coming from the Don Hill camp: Only a few days after inviting us to a Sunday-eve prayer vigil for Don Hill and Sheila Farrington in advance of Monday’s start date in the City Hall corruption case, Ken Carter at Focus Communications last night sent out…
As mentioned yesterday, the Dallas Municipal Court efficiency study’s on the agenda for tomorrow’s council briefing; it actually makes its bow this afternoon at 2 during the Legislative Ad Hoc Committee meeting. And, yes, right at the top of the briefing doc, First Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans is upfront…
Earlier this afternoon, Ken Carter at Focus Communications sent along an invite to a Sunday-night prayer vigil in front of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse — where, so happens, one week from today former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and his missus, Sheila Farrington, finally go to…
Back in March, the Office of the City Auditor noted that the Dallas Municipal Court system is all kinds of messed up. Which is why the Dallas City Council’s set to get briefed Wednesday on an efficiency study aimed at cleaning up the mess — though how much time the…
Elm Street-based Marshmallow Fun Co. has in its sights China-based rival Enertec Enterprises and its New Jersey-living marketing man. So says this six-page complaint filed in Dallas federal court yesterday, in which Marshmallow Fun Co. (sounds like a member of the Elephant Six Collective) claims that Enertec stole the patented…
Four years ago, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice guest by the name of George Morgan filed for a habeas corpus proceeding, which the state asked the court to dismiss. Morgan didn’t take kindly to that, and in response to the state of Texas’s request, Morgan sent to Assistant Attorney…
Dunno why I didn’t think of this sooner — burying a certain 1996 Jeep Cherokee of my acquaintance in a field somewhere, ditching it in a nearby river whose trees are in need of chopping down or just setting the sumbitch on fire. Why not? According to this Associated Press…
First, there was Allen McGill. Then, Andrea Spencer. Then, John Lewis. To that roster of names of folks who’ve pleaded guilty in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, add a fourth: Kevin Dean, president and a principal of Kevin Dean Asphalt Technology and a concrete subcontractor who today in a…
Last night, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins pleaded his case against Dallas County-wide budget cuts in the Garland City Council chambers, where a town hall meeting with Dallas County Commissioner Mike Cantrell, held in front of some 300 audience members, devolved into a scene from The Jerry Springer Show…
In July 2008, federal authorities arrested a Carrollton man named Joseph Kelly Lara, whom the feds had accused of creating a phony name (Nick DeAngelis Mancuso) and a fake job (securities attorney and investment professional), which he then used to sell securities (including Google stock) he claimed he owned but…
I’ve left messages for Mark Taylor, the attorney representing the three men suing Michael Irvin, but I did speak a moment ago with Larry Friedman, who’s repping the former Dallas Cowboy and who’s mentioned in the complaint about which we wrote this morning. And Friedman doesn’t mince words when asked…
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells Unfair Park he expects to launch the so-called no-refusal program full-time in September after key legislation passed Sunday that makes obtaining a blood search warrant easier.”That was the hold up,” says Kunkle, who explains that the old law stipulated that only certain judges could…
As far as Jordan Bealmear, Shannon Clark and Christopher Harding are concerned, Michael Irvin intercepted their idea for a football tryout show. Which is why, late last week, the threesome filed suit against Irvin in Dallas County District Court in which they claim his 4th and Long, currently airing on…
The Martin Scorsese of Lower Greenville may be out of a gig soon: This morning, Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck, commander of the patrol division, tells Unfair Park that for the past month, he’s been considering taking camera crews to document the late-night and early-morning doings at city’s…
