{"id":19211,"date":"2014-01-07T07:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=19211"},"modified":"2014-01-07T07:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:14:34","slug":"buddy-barfielddavid-dewhurst-campaign-embezzlement-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=19211","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Barfield\/David Dewhurst Campaign Embezzlement Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the accusations that campaign consultant Kenneth “Buddy” Barfield embezzled over $1 million from David Dewhurst’s Lt. Governor and Senate campaigns<\/a> over a number of years?<\/p>\n

Well, the estimated total he’s accused of embezzling is now over $2 million<\/a>, plus <\/p>\n

Barfield has agreed to turn over his lavish West Austin home and various business assets to Dewhurst to settle a civil lawsuit filed by Dewhurst last year to recover the funds. A final judgment executing the settlement was signed by a state judge in November.<\/p>\n

Sale proceeds from Barfield\u2019s home, which has been listed at $2.8 million, will be pooled with the assets of Barfield\u2019s businesses to repay Dewhurst\u2019s campaign accounts for lieutenant governor and his 2012 U.S. Senate race. The home was valued at $1.37 million by the Travis County Appraisal District in 2013.<\/p>\n

In all, the judgment states that the David Dewhurst Committee and Dewhurst for Texas campaign accounts should receive $3,750,000 from the Barfield properties. It lists seven Barfield companies, including Alexander Group Consulting, which conducted campaign work for Dewhurst and other candidates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Evidently there is some fire behind all that smoke. (Also, it appears that Betsy Woodruff was right<\/a> (and I was wrong) to describe Barfield as having embezzled “millions” plural rather than singular.) Also, this evidently doesn’t get him off the hook for possible criminal charges, which I understand are at both the state and federal levels (the latter for violating federal campaign finance laws for Dewhurst’s losing 2012 U.S. Senate race). <\/p>\n

Still unanswered is just how bad is David Dewhurst’s oversight that someone managed to steal $2 million from his campaigns and he didn’t notice for years?<\/p>\n

(Speaking of disorder in the Dewhurst campaign, according to this story I missed from last year, he evidently still owes vendors over $1 million<\/a> from the Senate campaign. I sent out some queries Friday to the vendors named in the story to see if Dewhurst has paid those bills in the interim, but have yet to receive a reply from any of them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the accusations that campaign consultant Kenneth “Buddy” Barfield embezzled over $1 million from David Dewhurst’s Lt. Governor and Senate campaigns over a number of years? Well, the estimated total he’s accused of embezzling is now over $2 million, plus Barfield has agreed to turn over his lavish West Austin home and various business assets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":31,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,13,1],"tags":[928,2872,941,2862,1835,945],"class_list":["post-19211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-elections","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-election","tag-crime","tag-david-dewhurst","tag-elections","tag-kenneth-barfield","tag-texas-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19222,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19211\/revisions\/19222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}