Silly You! You Thought Rick Perry Was Bad.
At least Texas was blessed by Rick Perry being stoopid.
We are not so lucky with Greg Abbott. Greg Abbott is smart. He knows how to finagle and cover up. He knows how to delay gratification and paybacks so that they don’t look like paybacks.
In Texas, former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection, John Owens, has retired but he kept a 14 page summary of the charges against Donald Trump and Trump U defrauding consumers in Texas.
Owens, now retired, said his team had built a solid case against the now-presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but was told to drop it after Trump’s company agreed to cease operations in Texas.
The former state regulator told The Associated Press on Friday that decision was highly unusual and left the bilked students on their own to attempt to recover their tuition money from the celebrity businessman.
Owens found the “stand down” order he was given to be odd because it meant that Trump was being treated differently than others who commit fraud in Texas.
Owens’ boss at the time was then-Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is now the state’s GOP governor.
The Associated Press first reported Thursday that Trump gave donations totaling $35,000 to Abbott’s gubernatorial campaign three years after his office closed the Trump U case. Several Texas media outlets then reported Owens’ accusation that the probe was dropped for political reasons.
Abbott’s people claim the order didn’t come from him but from people lower down on the Greg Abbott scale of importance. Additionally, they add, it was three years after Abbott’s office saved Trump a couple of million that the pay-off came.
Oh yeah. Three years is like a whole different epoch.
Then to add smoke to this fire, indicted felon Ken Paxton, our current attorney general, has issued a cease and desist letter against Owens. Apparently Owens has broken a Texas law against truth-telling and our attorney general is headed for Shut The Hell Up Corral.
Holy crap, I live here, y’all.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Apparently, Mr. Owens took his job of protecting consumers seriously. But he was up against the Repug graft machine and didn’t stand a chance. It’s worse than the mob.
1It is the MOB. In TX.& AZ the fix is in for Drumpf. The best Gov. that money can buy.
2Wingnuts have gone back over thirty years looking for dirt on Clintons. Chaffedbutt-etz has ordered another investigation into HRC’s emails.
3Don’t forget Florida! You can but an attorney general there for $25000. Maybe instead of spending money to get democrats elected, we should just use it to buy a bunch of republicans and make them do our bidding.
4He got $10,000.00 more then the AG of Florida!
5And she had to give hers back!
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.
6RNC says “oh no THAT wasn’t pay to play”. Watch this trick boys, never once will my fingers leave my hands as I deftly execute!”
7None of that surprises me as much as the fact that Texas HAS a Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection. I thought y’all were on your own down there, exploding fertilizer plants and all.
8“…I live here, y’all.” Then you should know by now that the “Holy crap” lead-in wasn’t necessary. It is Texas, after all.
9Whatever happened to a blue Bell investigation and a donation to Abbot?
10So did you notice at the UT/Notre Dame game Sunday night that Abbott tossed the coin at the start of the game? He was also an honorary captain of the UT team. How can the captain (honorary or otherwise) toss the coin? What happened to fair? Abbott doesn’t understand that at the most basic of levels. Pick one. Toss the coin or be honorary captain — not both.
11Why, oh why does this remind me of Bridgegate in New Jersey and all the shrieks from the Jersey Whale that he knew nothing, nada, zilch about what the lower rungs of his administration was doing? Damn contemptible corrupt state level, top, middle, bottom!
12If we rely on a state investigation, we will be disappointed.
If we get a federal investigation, we might see justice.
13Yet another reason to Vote Democratic.
“Abbott’s people claim the order didn’t come from him but from people lower down on the Greg Abbott scale of importance.”
snacilbupeR-ism 101: Always blame the vulnerable minions for your own criminal behavior.
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