Former Chief of the Special Crimes Division of the CCDAO, Jill Willis, (wife of Greg Willis) On that November day in 2011, nobody could have foreseen that Wooten, whose hands were effectively tied behind her back without the ability to appeal, would emerge a decade later, Houdini-like, with a complete exoneration and a $600,000 settlement against Collin County. Mr. Her law license was suspended, so she worked as a paralegal and started building a mediation and trial consulting business. The law also mandates public disclosure of contributors and the amounts contributed. Who bribed who what? Doesnt bribery involve you getting money or someone paying money or something? Toward the end of the year, she told the partners at a firm meeting that she intended to run for Sandovals seat. Sandoval won 9,884 to 9,420. Since the first district court was established in Collin County in 1846, no one had challenged an incumbent judge, whether in a primary or general election. He tried reaching out to people he knew in the Collin County DAs office, but they were tight-lipped about the secret grand jury proceedings. Dave Cary had already seen a series of judges do 180s in his child custody case. With voter fraud, drug smuggling and bribery a big part of border culture, it's proving to be a difficult task. But the prosecutors had the whole picture. Also: Texas is an insanely terrible place to do business: It has corrupt public officials law-enforcement officers on the cartel dime, judges selling verdicts, members of a drug task force. He and Roach were concerned that if Greg Willis became the new DA, hed drop the charges against Wooten. Due to the shortness of the race, Clements agreed to cut his fee in half to $25,000, and then he got to work booking radio ads. She gets convicted. 66-year-old Eric Clifford, who had deep roots in political office holding in Lamar and Red River counties before being elected to his judgeship, violated virtually every rule of judicial conduct, a 400-page complaint included: Threatening a police officer whose relatives were reportedly harassing a local court reporter; This time, Sandoval named Jennifer the sole managing conservator of the girls, sanctioned Dave $50,000 for filing numerous frivolous pleadings, and ordered him to pay Jennifers attorneys fees in the amount of $417,000. The Civil Rights Division may also be contacted via telephone at 512-463-2642 or 888-452-4778 (in Texas only). Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Texas > Lubbock: Most corrupt city I have ever lived in (Lubbock, West: waterpark, school) . It just seemed like there had to be some kernel of truth to the whole bribery thing, some questionable if not illegal activity that allowed the Collin County DAs office to prosecute four innocent people, convict three of them, and force the fourth to plead guilty. But they let the others off the hook, finding their involvement in investigative functions was more limited. It has been said that Montgomery County, Texas is the most corrupt county in the state. Assistant Attorney General Harry White would argue that the consulting agreement was fabricated after the fact to cover the real purpose of the $150,000the bribery of Wootenand that the only work Spencer did was to pass off industry analyses from places such as the Harvard Journal of Legislation as his own. Youre supposed to be raising your children. Plus, they warned, getting lawyers to donate to a judicial campaign against a Republican incumbent in a blood-red county, when their donations are a matter of public record, would be tough. But what got me to my decision was one of my dear friends who was there. There are over 200,000 inhabitants, approximately 70% white. The woman testified that she didnt pay because her boyfriend beat her up. There is no dispute that Wooten, for her part, paid every bill she received from Spencer. For a moment, she thought maybe it would be better for them if she were dead. They talked over the next few days, and Stacy agreed to pay him $150 per hour up to $250,000 for his services. I can help people with their divorces. That flicker of a plan was enough to get her out of the tub. Wooten sentenced him to treatment. This was particularly cynical given the fact that Ms. Wooten was active in the Democratic party two years prior to this race. The price of oil was spiking, and the siblings thought it might be a good time to sell. This is the introduction to this website, which will be all about how a small urban Texas county (Wood County) allowed smalltime corruption among its public servants to go unchecked for decades, until it has finally ended up with UNBRIDLED CORRUPTION from the top (402nd District Judge Brad McCampbell, District Attorney Angela Albers and Texas Ranger John Vance) to the bottom (Wood County Sheriff Kelly Cole and his deputies, local police chiefs, county constables, CPS caseworkers, CPS Judge Deane Loughmiller, and the defense attorneys that are supposed to be fighting for the people that they are sworn to defend), and what the CITIZENS OF WOOD COUNTY are doing, and need to do be doing, to take back the power and control of the county that rightly belongs to them. One-third of all District Court judges in Texas have been appointed, not elected. A fellow prosecutor says that when he asked Milner why he charged the lawyer, Milner told him, That guy fucked me over years ago. As for White and Abbott, he believed, they were involved from the very start. Harry White, an assistant attorney general with election law experience, agreed to join the team. Yet the indictment alleged that payments made by Stacy to Spencer, totalling $150,000 between January and March 2008, were intended to induce Wooten to run for Sandovals seat, beat him, preside over the 380th, and issue unspecified favorable rulings., When I read it, I laughed, Schulte says. But Palmer was familiar with how Milner ran the Special Crimes Unit. It was all about power and preserving the status quo. Thats when we discovered I won in the early voting 60 to 40 [percent], she says. I kept saying, I dont wanna look. When the restaurant next door closed down at 10 pm, the owners came over with bottles of wine. They could select 20 to 125 prospective jurors the same way district court jurors are selected (i.e., randomly through voter registration and drivers license rolls), or they could appoint three to five people to serve as grand jury commissioners who wouldnt serve themselves, but who would in turn select 15 to 40 prospective jurors each. Over the last couple of centuries, almost every state has tried partisan elections for judges at some point, but Texas is one of only six that continues to do so for judges at all levels. When Stacy met Dave, he had joint custody of his twin toddlers and an acrimonious relationship with his ex-wife, Jennifer. The controversial course of treatment, which a study in the scientific journal Addiction determined doesnt work better than a placebo, could cost up to $15,000 per person and didnt have FDA approval. And thats when I was told the allegation was bribery. Now, he says, laughing, Im the faggot from Colorado.. As they headed out of the courtroom, Schulte, a young, tough-talking former cop with a buzz cut, angrily told White, This is not over. But election fraud is now a national rallying cry. Two were in Fort Worth, but they werent up for reelection. Her first cases are still fixed in her memory. Even if she were sentenced to prison time, White wasnt sure how long she could stay on the bench during the course of an appeal. Everyone else is just collateral damage. I remember going home thinking, What did I do? It generally requires a video, or a written letter or text, or a wiretapped phone conversation. His next stop was the Collin County Democratic Party, which told him that Wooten was talking about running for Sandovals seat. She also refused to sign off on routine asset forfeiture requests from the DAs office until after a conviction. Investment options continued to be something the whole family was interested in, and they felt Spencers legislative insights were invaluable, even if his ultimate advice was that any given option was a bad one. 10. He knew unseating a Democratic judge in Texas wouldnt get attention; he needed to challenge a Republican. And everybody was innocent because they didnt do anything wrong. Beginning in 2005, he started going to Austin to try to amend laws regarding parental rights that he felt were unconstitutional. It was because the jurors couldnt believe the way judges are elected in Texas. In all, the campaign ended up costing Wooten $112,000: $27,000 of it for the one radio ad that ran on several stations prior to the primary, $25,000 for Clements services, $7,500 for Spencers fee, and the rest for everything else. Stacy Cary was convicted by a jury in June 2012. Bald, bespectacled, and trim, with a sideline swagger and locker room vocabulary, Scott Palmer could pass for a collegiate basketball coach. Two widely publicized cases in 2013 involved a former Hidalgo County sheriff and his son, a former police officer. Thats what became known as the Special Crimes Unit. What Schulte and Wooten would soon discover was that on March 5, 2008, the day after Wooten had won the election, Sandoval had lodged a complaint with Roachs office. She waives her right to appeal. His close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair is receding. And I was told that their plan was to have me arrested at the airport with the media present. When she was running, I had similar feelings that Judge Wooten did, that Charles Sandoval was a complete moron and an asshole and needed to be removed, he says. In his third letter to Milner, dated October 15, Sandoval wrote: The real reason for Ms. Wootens success was the radio advertising she did. His clients run the gamut: crypto, natural gas, medical device inventions, nutritional supplements, vertical farming, cybersecurity, edge computing, bottled water. Suzanne Wooten had 10 minutes to decide her own fate. In order to determine the best states in which to pursue a law-enforcement career, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 30 key indicators of police-friendliness. You might get acquitted. He is an assistant city attorney manager for the city of Aurora. Even after the Spencers moved back to Texas, the grandparents werent notified, and they were unable to see their grandchildren for five years. But the matter had ultimately been dropped. Palmer wasnt able to convince the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to let him go after all of the named parties, however. After serving as an NCO in the Army in the 1970s, he became a CPA, got his M.B.A. at SMU, and went on to become the CFO of i2 Technologies Inc. Dave was the last man standing. ), One day, Wooten received a call at the courthouse from a drug rep. 1 in overall corruption convictions, followed by California, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. Considering that Wooten wasnt able to practice law and had to step down from the bench after her indictment in 2010 until the State Bar of Texas reinstated her license in 2017; and considering that she had again attempted to run for an open seat in 2020 but the Collin County Republican Party deemed her ineligible, claiming she hadnt been a practicing attorney for the four years prior, contrary to the State Bars retroactive reinstatement orderit wasnt nearly enough. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ). The most dangerous places in Texas are usually areas or neighborhoods located inside larger cities. This one was a plea to prison officials to let his wife bring his wedding ring to prison and to let him wear it. Former Chief of the Special Crimes Division of the CCDAO. 21. Dave filled his time writing her letters and working on his appeal. The Collin County trials, however, ended when Wooten was elected. He would later testify that he offered the plea because his sole goal was to get Wooten off the bench and keep her from running again. Texas Commission on Judicial Selection Final Report, 2020. Wooten is farsighted, and she was familiar with the form from her time on the bench, so it was easy for her to decipher the jurys findings as the judge silently flipped through the pages: guilty, guilty, guilty. New York drops to No. In fact, he was so concerned that they might miss the statute of limitationsit wasnt clear based on the facts if they had one or two yearsthat he brought in Sean Cox, an appellate lawyer, to help with the drafting. Corruption, of course, exists in big cities across the country, too, and Richard Durbin, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, said the dollar amounts involved in Texas cases. In fact, he asked us to hire a lobbyist, but therewe do have a lobbyist. In all, I am told, 443 Texas judges are new to their jobs. She never had less than $36,000 cash in a bank account. There would be no opponent in November. Over the following few months, Spencer would investigate options, discuss his findings with Stacy, and then bill her. Looking back, though, he grinds his axe not against Sandoval but against the Collin County DAs office. Because those juries never had the whole picture. Those ads require front money in order to be run, and those ads take time to prepare and line up for broadcast. If she didnt, he threatened, she was going to face indictment and would lose her house, law license, family, and reputation, and he would put her in prison for a long time. 15. (Not to be confused with his son, Judge John Roach Jr., who currently presides over the 296th District Court in Collin County. Then someone anonymously placed a copy of an email from First Assistant DA Greg Davis to Roach in her mailbox. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison probated and 30 days in jail. Spencer is a remarkably talented individual who knows more about politics than probably anybody in this room will ever know, Dave would later tell a grand jury. The AGs office missed it, too. A fourth of trial judgesdistrict, county, and justices of the peaceare new. He thought the consultant might be able to help develop a government sales pipeline for his companys tech products. But I am skeptical. After all, shes the one who wrote the checks. Since the first district court was established in Collin County in 1846, no one had challenged an incumbent judge, whether in a primary or general election. Shed stop proceedings to ask if he needed something, but he would respond that he was just watching.. Theres another legal issue mentioned in Whites sentencing document, however, that cuts to the heart of the matter. Stacy did appeal, but the panel of judges hearing it upheld her conviction. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I felt like that was the right thing to do, she says, not to put him in jail so that when he gets out he reoffends because he has nothing, hes getting no tools, hes not getting any help., The whispers about Wootens sentences made their way back to her. He made his fortune when the Irving-based business went public in the late 1990s, going from a $1 million operation to a $5 billion behemoth with Dave as CFO. Since Wooten, judicial races in the county are occasionally contested, and there are a lot more women on the bench. Even though filing paperwork to run for judge isnt illegal, and supporting a candidate who shares your political and social ideals in the hope that the person will be elected and rule in your favor isnt illegal, and there was no allegation of an explicit agreementin fact, there was absolutely no evidence of money ever making its way from the Carys to Wootenthe case was allowed to proceed. With the writing on the wall, Palmer settled the case with Collin Countys insurance company for $600,000 in January 2022. 11 on the list, and California falls to 34th. The ultra-right conservatives here will hate you, they told her. Report Public Corruption. In 2007, Wooten was the managing partner of the McKinney branch of Collins & Basinger, a boutique Dallas law firm. He has just flown in from Virginia, where he had been caring for his daughter who was recently in a car accident. She had continuous advertising on the most popular, hard-right talk shows. He was focused specifically on limiting third-party rightsgrandparents, extended family members, and others he viewed as interfering with the rights of parents. What followed is the unbelievable, epic tale of. For district courts where the population is more than 1 million, individual contributions are limited to $5,000, law firm and their member contributions are limited to $30,000, and PAC contributions are limited to $52,500 per court. There are currently 485 district courts in the state. In addition to arguing that the Collin County District Attorneys Office was plagued by a pattern of abuse of power and malicious prosecution for political gain, Palmer and Cox also argued that Milner and Roach had grossly abused the grand jury process as part of their prosecutor-led investigation. Federal statistics on public corruption convictions show the two judicial districts that cover South Texas rank near the top nationwide. If it was a political contributioneven if it was a covert indirect transfer of money not labeled as suchthen there was no crime because it was an exception to the definition of bribery under the statute. Everyone knew someone else, and they almost all had a tie to the Collin County Republican Party. During voir dire, when the attorneys and the judge went into chambers, he says he found himself alone in a room of 100 or more potential jurors. Here is the cast of characters that you will be reading the most about: First Assistant District Attorney Brandon Baade-A man whose physical unattractiveness is only surpassed by his lack of intelligence and moral bankruptcy, but has somehow tricked the people in the courthouse that he is brilliant and that they have to heed every bit of horrible advice that he gives, even though it took him 3 years to pass the bar exam after graduating law school from the LESS THAN PRESTIGIOUS Regent University Law School. Within a month of getting married, however, Daves ongoing custody dispute went yet again before Judge Sandoval. Greg Abbott is the incumbent Republican governor, up for reelection on November 8. Im like, Bribery? The whole trial had felt like a terrible farce. And then she comes back in with an actual innocence writ. Willis, however, was never indicted. The $150,000 that Stacy paid Spencer from January 2008 to March 2008 was all deposited in Spencers joint checking account with his wife. Civil penalties can be assessed for violations of up to three times the amount of the political contributions accepted in violation of the section. I mean, its just mind blowing., Over the course of his career, he had numerous encounters with Milner and Roach in Collin County, and, even though he didnt know her, he had even donated a small amount to Wootens campaign. John Cornyn and Greg Abbott were running unopposed for the Supreme Court of Texas. It was my mailbox, but I didnt even own a dog.. And the Court of Appeals fixes it. Now, she was seated at the defense table, dressed not in a robe but in a conservative pantsuit, her blond hair pulled back in a basic bun. They werent stupid. At one point, according to a Collin County Bar Association judicial poll, it was 12 percent, the lowest in the history of the survey. And then you have a split decision. Wooten now has a busy mediation and trial consulting practice in McKinney called North Texas Litigation Solutions. Stacy and her sister-in-law sent him the Economist and the Wall Street Journal. He still has an active consulting practice, although he has not worked on another judicial campaign. Federal prosecutors convicted 206 defendants on public corruption charges in It had numerous replies. 217 likes. With respect to legal corruption, Kentucky is the most corrupt state followed by Illinois and Nevada while Massachusetts is the least corrupt state followed Michigan, Oregon, and Vermont. I mean, the phrase that comes to my mind first is that he sees around corners. Thats the type of man he was. The filing may have been careless, but it wasnt a crime. As for Sandoval, he was running against Judge Betty Caton for the newly created 380th seat. Would you say hes a lobbyist?. Corrupt Texas Governor Greg Abbott is the poster child for corrupt Republicans' sellout to the fossil fuel industry. After serving in the Air Force, Spencer went into the healthcare field, managing a region for a home health company. If youre doing something to save your own life, you dont have the intent to steal. But since the State Commission on Judicial Conduct never removed her, she technically remained the elected judge on the 380th until the end of December 2012. He knew the prosecutors were acting like cops, and there was Supreme Court case law that said if you act like a cop, you get qualified immunity like a cop. I didnt know that you can be unknowingly bribed without. Friends in the legal community told her she should wait. If you don't know who Shaun is, you can find earlier segments here . I thought we had checks and balances. And then they stayed as long as they wanted, or at least until they turned 75 and aged out by law. Smith County is located in the state of Texas. Dallas, Texas 75201. From 2015 to 2020, the Texas Rangers completed more than 560 public corruption case investigations, but only 67 of those cases have been prosecuted, according to DPS data analyzed by the. Suzanne Wooten had 10 minutes to decide her own fate. The prayer for relief included damages for mental anguish, lost wages, and punitive damages. He asked if Stacy might be interested in hiring him to do some research and consulting on her behalf. Learn from it.. So she decided to sit out the race and spend the next four years getting ready. And it was the best thing that ever happened in my career. Corruption in a Small Texas Town Investigation Dismantles Family-Run Criminal Operation Public corruption arrests and convictions in major metropolitan areas usually garner a great deal of. Here are the 15 most corrupt states in America. Before Wooten was sworn in on January 1, 2009, Charles Sandoval made his first attempts at sabotage. Im like, Bribery? Most try both criminal and civil cases, but in larger counties, such as Dallas, individual courts may specialize in civil, criminal, juvenile, or family law. Per 100,000 residents in the state of Texas, there were 438 violent crimes and 2,562 property crimes according to World Population Review. From 2015 to 2020, the Texas Rangers completed more than 560 public corruption case investigations, but only 67 of those cases have been prosecuted, according to DPS data analyzed by . He didnt want anything to jeopardize Wooten (who knew nothing about his dealings with the Carys). 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