2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumExclusive: David Dewhurst campaign says aide stole at least $600,000
AUSTIN Lt. Gov. David Dewhursts campaign manager is under criminal scrutiny, suspected of stealing at least $600,000 and possibly more than $1 million from the Republicans political accounts over the past several years.
Kenneth Buddy Barfield, a longtime GOP consultant who most recently managed Dewhursts failed run for the U.S. Senate, has been accused of falsifying documents to the Texas Ethics Commission that overstated the cash in Dewhursts state campaign committee by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Barfield, who also directed Dewhursts re-election campaign for lieutenant governor in 2010, did not return calls to his cellphone Thursday.
The original reports, examined by The Dallas Morning News, allegedly allowed Barfield to conceal huge sums of money taken from the David Dewhurst Committee since 2008 until Dewhurst associates discovered the improprieties this month.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20121227-exclusive-david-dewhurst-campaign-says-aide-stole-at-least-600000.ece
blueclown
(1,869 posts)He's a good ol boy in Texas, just like rat-faced Tom Delay.
asjr
(10,479 posts)I don't think he will ever spend any time in jail.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)does ripping off a republican actually constitute theft?