Dallas Crime

Whose Oath is it Anyway? Commissioners Promise to Bow Out of Business Interests, Except One

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 22, 2017 /

By Ashley Stanley Special Contributor Your Honor, May I Approach The Witness? I promised a commenter on the last blog post I would attend the trial and report back, so I did. And on that note, I gave my word. Does that mean anything anymore? Can someone say one thing and do another? I digress.

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With Friends Like These: Associates of John Wiley Price Might Be His Downfall

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 20, 2017 /

[Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of this series. Find the first and second installments here and here, respectively.] By Ashley Stanley Special Contributor No. 3-14CR-293-M [FILED UNDER SEAL] During a lazy Sunday afternoon, I decided to pick up the 107-page indictment filed by the feds on July 23, 2014, and provide my thoughts.…

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Our Man Downtown Goes to Trial: Jurors in John Wiley Price Bribery Trial Deserve Props

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 3, 2017 /

By Ashley Stanley Special Contributor For the first installment in this series, click here. The morning didn’t go as planned. I was hoping to be at the courthouse at 7:45 a.m., remember? It was more like 9:03 a.m. I ended up taking care of other business matters, but nonetheless, made it to the Earle Cabell…

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When Our Man Downtown Goes to Trial: The Complex Public Corruption Case of John Wiley Price

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / February 27, 2017 /

By Ashley Stanley Special Contributor Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has been active in our community for more than four decades. It has been said that his extracurricular activities include “The Dallas County Community Leadership Luncheon,” nightly host of KKDA’s “Talk Back, Liberation Radio,” and a drive time radio crusade known as Liberation Nation…

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Uptown Murder at Gables Park 17 Gaining Nationwide Attention

By Candy Evans / September 3, 2015 /

The tragic gunning down of a woman in an Uptown parking garage last evening, a garage residents say was accessible only with a fob key, has now garnered a bit of national attention via the New York Daily News.  The murder has the luxury apartment community (and a lot of single women in Uptown) on…

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