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The Archer County News - Thursday, November 5,2009 - Page Nine
'ihimiuel and
Scfiuck turned
Ms. Diane Rugeley Hummel of Fort Worth,
Texas, is proud to announce the engagement
of her daughter,
Courtney Alice 'thiminel
to
‘Mark landing Scfiuck,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Schuck of Double
Oak, Texas. Miss Hummel is also the daugh-
ter of Mr. Donald J Hummel of Lake Arrow-
head, Texas.
Courtney is a graduate of Holliday High
School, Midwestern State University, and
received her MBA from University of Phoe-
nix. Mark is a graduate of Marcus High
School and Sam Houston State University.
Both are presently employed by Encore Ac-
quisition Company in Fort Worth, Texas.
The wedding will take place December
12, 2009 in Argyle, Texas.
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MEMBER 2009
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATE AND LOCAL
COMMENTARY
by Charles Finnell
The eyes ad ears of Texans, es-
pecially municipal governments
remain sharply focused this
week on developments in
sprawling Dallas City Hall scan-
dal, a federal case against in-
dicted former Mayor Pro Tern
Don Hill and his local Planning
and Zoning appointee. The high-
profile North Texas trial is un-
folding in the U.S. District Court
of Federal Judge Lynn. Prosecu-
tion is by the U.S. Attorney for
North Texas and is based on
lengthy allegations brought by
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion.
Testimony so far has center on
the undercover work of James
Fisher, who at that point acted
as an FBI informant, was asked
to "come up with" a sum of cash
and did, delivering it to buy
Mayor Pro Tem Hills' council
vote on a local zoning variance
as change to benefit a housing
developer. As proof that the
Shakedown continued, infor-
mant Fisher has testified that
Councilman Hills confederate
intermediary on the Planning
and Zone Commission sent word
to Hill to "pull Fishers zoning
request for the agenda", until an-
other sum of cash was delivered
to him behind the Friendship
Baptist Church. Only this time
the FBI surveillance team was
wired and cameras were rolling
for evidence of the hand-off.
Former Mayor Pro Tem Hills
legal defense team maintains
that this was a campaign dona-
tion to Hill, who became a coun-
cilman in 2000.
The FBI is currently giving a
priority to instances of local
government corruption through-
out the Southwest, according to
their regional office. The bureau
emphasizes that "The mere fact
that these are public figures
whose service is based on pub-
lic trust "encourages a careful
investigation" continuing that
the last thing the FBI wants to
do is malign an innocent person,
particularly a trusted public ser-
vant". Their special agent said
that is why the FBI chose to in-
vestigate allegations of corrup-
tion against Hill, using devel-
oper James Fisher to surrepti-
tiously record the defendants
and wire taps in order to see if
a crime is being committed. The
bureau learned there were a
number of references to a "win-
dow of time" and that a two year
time period was mentioned
more than once "as Mr. Hill had
two more years on the council
and wanted to tie up as much
land with as many deals as pos-
sible", once adding that "the
momentum is working in our
favor land we need to move on
with it".
The FBI Agent emphasized
that "After months of wiretap-
ping agents found plenty of evi-
dence to continue.....If those
months of evidence gathering
had yielded no evidence, the
case would have been dropped
and, no one would have known
we were ever there.
UNANIMOUS VERDICT
RETURNED IN NORTH
TEXAS ZONING CORRUP- -\
TION, FBI ON A LOCAL !
ROLL OF SUCCESS.
Former city councilman and j
Mayor pro-tem Don Hills of i
Dallas has been found guilty on i
7 0 9 felony counts last week in ;•
a North Texas city hall zoning*1
corruption case exposed by the J
Federal Bureau of Investigation.;j
In what can only be referred to ;!
as "a good couple of weeks for;!
the FBI", a foreign terrorist's plot;
to bomb a Dallas shyscraper was
foiled and a unanimous guilty
verdict in this local zoning cor-_
ruption case was returned. Coun-
cilman Hill faces sentences to-
taling 95 years for bribery arid
conspiracy to commit bribery, as
does his wife and D.M. Lee,
Hill's appointee to the city's
Planning & Zoning Commis-
sion.
After being found guilty by-a
jury of peers, the three each face
civil financial penalties for vio-
lating the federal judge's order
not to discuss the case prior tp a,
verdict.
This column acknowledges to
gavel to gavel trial as provided
by the reporters of the Dallas,
Morning News and their input
into this matter.
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