FBI arrests nearly all of the top officials of Crystal City, Tex.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Mayor Pro Tempore Rogelio Mata, council member Roel Mata and former council member Gilbert Urrabazo — voted to extend city manager and city attorney William Jonas’s lucrative contract, in exchange for his support in their various bribery schemes.

The San Antonio Express-News reported that Jonas, a “one-time Republican lobbyist down on his luck,” was paid about $180,000 a year after being hired without ever having worked as a city attorney or even applying for the job. His fees were extraordinarily high for a small-town city attorney — the lawyer for a neighboring town made less than one-tenth as much — and even higher than the attorneys for bigger cities such as Laredo and Corpus Christi.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-arrests-nearly-all-of-the-top-officials-of-crystal-city-tex/ar-BBpf9gO?ocid=spartanntp

[Initech]

1. Greed, it's a virus and it's going to screw us all.

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. Good work FBI! Who is next?

[nashville_brook]

3. oh dear...might that this catch on in other municipalities.

[DirkGently]

4. Well there's some tax dollars

actually doing what they should.

[hobbit709]

5. They should have stuck with growing spinach and their Popeye statue.

[hunter]

6. Easy pickings. Small timers.

Meanwhile the biggest crooks, the governors, the senators, the congressmen, the big bankers, the war contractors... party on.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

7. "Easy pickings. Small timers."

You've got to nip them in the bud, Dubya started out as a lowly land commissioner and became the biggest war criminal in American history and then it is too late to stop them!

[Octafish]

13. Detroit's former mayor is behind bars for decades, busted by AT&T text messages.

America's then-pretzeldent lied America into war and he walks free.

Than you, hunter. "Easy pickings. Small timers" is right.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Omigod. I hope my city is next.

[HuckleB]

9. WOW!

[StopTheNeoCons]

10. Its a well known business in Texas...

finding ways to rip off city and county governments, 99% of the time, its right wingers.

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. There's a lot of corruption in S Texas police Dept's too n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. Next...the governor of Michigan and his conspirators.