{"id":23302,"date":"2015-04-14T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23302"},"modified":"2015-04-13T22:42:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T03:42:45","slug":"john-wiley-price-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23302","title":{"rendered":"John Wiley Price Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember John Wiley Price, the longtime Dallas Democratic political fixture arrested on bribery charges?<\/p>\n<p>Well, he&#8217;s now on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/headlines\/20150410-john-wiley-price-gets-second-taxpayer-funded-attorney.ece\">second court appointed lawyer<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>At taxpayer expense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Price is accused of taking $950,000 in bribes over a decade from businesses seeking county contracts or other approvals. He earns $141,236 a year as a county commissioner and owns various cars and two Oak Cliff houses.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents seized more than $450,000 from Price in 2011 as part of their investigation. Price had about $11,000 in cash on him when he was arrested in July, authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that sounds like some serious grinding poverty Price is facing. (Just for balance, the lefty <i>Dallas Observer<\/i> says that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\/unfairpark\/2015\/01\/whoa_whoa_whoa_lets_stop_freaking_out_about_john_wiley_price_saying_hes_broke.php\">politicians getting public legal aid<\/a> after indictment is not all that uncommon. And Price&#8217;s case is complicated by having so many &#8220;assets&#8221; tied up via civil forfeiture.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he and Hillary Clinton could compare notes on being broke&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember John Wiley Price, the longtime Dallas Democratic political fixture arrested on bribery charges? Well, he&#8217;s now on his second court appointed lawyer. At taxpayer expense. Price is accused of taking $950,000 in bribes over a decade from businesses seeking county contracts or other approvals. He earns $141,236 a year as a county commissioner and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,17],"tags":[151,2872,865,2864,1646],"class_list":["post-23302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-democrats","tag-bribes","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-democrats","tag-john-wiley-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23302","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=23302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23310,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23302\/revisions\/23310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}