Everyone's doing it. So, since I'm having some kind of burnout I guess and can't come up with anything of my own to say that isn't Palinesque babbling, I thought I'd get in on the action by stealing this great post from Mike today which goes very well with this very apt YouTube that Atrios posted a few days ago (it's the only thing I ever liked that Liza Minnelli did):
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I did some follow up research on the seven Schreiner Bank directors who slipped the noose. Two continued to operate major ranching operations in Kerr County that are still going today. One of them passed away in 2001 and had his obit written up in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. No mention of his involvement with Schreiner Bank (even though his name is Schreiner).
Two more had House Resolutions passed in their honor by the Texas Legislature after they died (sponsored by the local Republican State Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, of course). Once again, no mention of their involvement in bilking the federal government out of $154 million.
Another one went on to become a director on the Federal Reserve Board in San Antonio. So go figure.
It just goes to show you that crime pays as long as you are stealing millions of dollars and not just petty cash.
Seriously, Mike, I thought it was a great post and one that you should pitch as a story to, perhaps, the Texas Observer. Have you thought of doing that?
That's not a bad idea. I actually had something published in Texas Observer a long, long time ago. Back when Ann Richards was governor and they were debating whether or not to set up a Texas Lottery, I was living in Connecticut and got to see firsthand how that state's lottery was swindling poor people and doing nothing to help them out of a budget crisis. So as a warning to Texas I wrote an article called "Conn. Game" and got it published in the Texas Observer on Oct. 18, 1991.
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