Conroe, November 28 – Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) General Manager Kathy Turner Jones, who vehemently opposed the election of a reform-minded Board of Directors and used LSGCD state government funds to campaign for their opponents, dragged her fee in at least two major respects during the Tuesday, November 27, 2018, Board meeting to […]
Austin, September 29 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a Brief to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in support of Special Prosecutor Christopher Downey’s criminal prosecution of outgoing Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal, whom a Montgomery County Grand Jury indicted in June, 2016, for alleged violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act (“TOMA”). […]
Austin, September 3 – Special Prosecutor Christopher Downey and his legal team filed their Brief, on behalf of the State of Texas, without any delay in the Texas Open Meetings Act (“TOMA”) criminal prosecution case against Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal, Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, and local political boss Marc Davenport, who is […]
Austin and Conroe, August 10 – Two of the criminal defendants in the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA) criminal case pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals filed their appellate briefs late on Monday, August 6. Criminal defendant and Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley filed his brief. Criminal defendant and local political boss […]
Conroe, August 1 – A pretty mundane request by Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson resulted in a sharp rebuke of County Judge Craig Doyal by Precinct 3 County Commissioner James Noack for violating the Texas Open Meetings Act when Doyal tried to discuss a matter not on the Commissioners Court Agenda during the July 24, […]
Austin, June 22 – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed to hear the petitions for review on appeal of criminal defendants Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley and local political boss Marc Davenport with respect to their criminal indictments under the Texas Open Meetings Act. The Court notified the parties of its decision […]
Image: Criminally-indicted co-defendants Craig Doyal (lame duck Montgomery County Judge) and Charlie Riley (Precinct 2 County Commissioner) enjoy some refreshments at a bank together in late April, 2018. Austin, May 12 – The ultra-liberal, pro-government spending, and anti-citizen lobbying groups, the Texas Municipal League and Texas Association of Counties, celebrating their work with liberal House […]
Austin, April 14 – Criminally indicted co-defendants Charlie Riley and Marc Davenport, the Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner and local political boss, respectively, whose criminal indictments the Ninth Court of Appeals reinstated on February 7, 2018, filed their petitions for discretionary review with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin on Monday, April 9, 2018. […]
Austin and Conroe, April 8 – Co-Defendants Charlie Riley and Marc Davenport, the Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner and local political boss, respectively, whose criminal indictments the Ninth Court of Appeals reinstated on February 7, 2018, must file their petitions for discretionary review with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin by Monday, April […]
Image: Corruption bonded with corruption and nepotism bonded with nepotism, when Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, who created jobs for his wife and his nephew at taxpayer expense and whose constituents are County engineering firms and other vendors who pay for his criminal legal defense fund, embraced JP James Metts who cost the County […]