Dallas, TEXAS

Low-income housing seems to be a profit-maker for poliscum. In Dallas, 16 defendents were named in an indictment of Dallas City Hall corruption.

A state representative, two former City Council members and a former Plan Commission member – along with a wealthy developer and 11 others – were accused of violating the public trust, fixing the system to steal money. The Dallas Morning News thought that the fact that 12 of those 16, including all of the public officials, are black, could raise charges of "institutional racism" and "unequal justice."

Those indicted were state Rep. Terri Hodge, D-Dallas; former City Council member and mayoral candidate Don Hill and his wife; former Plan Commissioner D'Angelo Lee; and housing developer Brian Potashnik and his wife, among others.
U.S. Dept. of Justice Press Release (dated Oct 1, 2007)

Former four-term council member James Fantroy was convicted of stealing $20,000 from Paul Quinn college. U.S. prosecutors were hoping for his testimony Don Hill and others indicted over low-income housing shenanigans, but Fantroy declined.

The government's chief accusation is that public officials in Dallas were paid off to help Mr. Potashnik's company (Potasknik is a white guy whose wife is also named in the indictments) win lucrative low-income housing contracts – and that others aided in the bribery schemes or profited from them. The newspaper provided a handy chart to the connections and charges.

The first guilty plea was Allen McGill, former president and vice chairman of the Black State Employees Association of Texas (BSEA) and the BSEAT Community Development Corp., who pleaded to conspiracy to commit extortion. U.S. Dept. of Justice Press Release on the guilty plea. (dated April 15, 2008)

It was a complex scheme, the purpose of which was to make sure "affordable housing" paid off for a lot of people.