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PEC lawyer found guilty

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Energy, money laundering, pedernales electric cooperative on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A Kendall County jury found former Pedernales Electric Cooperative legal counsel Walter Demond guilty of all three felony charges outlined in his June 2009 indictment. Demond was found guilty of theft, misapplication of fiduciary property and money laundering. The jury recommended that Demond receive 10 years probation and be required to pay a $10,000 fine [...]

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PEC names new CEO

Posted in Co-op Reform, tagged Energy, General manager, money laundering, pedernales electric cooperative on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) has named R.B Sloan as its new CEO. Sloan begins March 6, leaving his current job as director of utilities in Danville, VA. He also ran the city-owned electric company for Vero Beach, Fla. PEC, the nation’s oldest and largest co-op has been plagued by scandal and management upheaval over [...]

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PEC’s former general manager sentenced to five years probation

Posted in Co-op Reform, tagged Fuelberg, money laundering, pedernales electric cooperative, public citizen texas on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Former Pedernales Electric Cooperative General Manager Bennie Fuelberg has been sentenced to five years’ probation, 300 days in county jail, 1,000 hours of community service and $126,000 in restitution which goes to the co-op’s former law firm Clark, Thomas and Winters, and its insurance company, which paid a $4.1 million settlement to the co-op last year. [...]

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Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged money laundering, Republican National Committee, Tom Delay on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Judge Pat Priest has sentenced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to three years in prison on the conspiracy charge he was convicted of in November. Delay was also sentenced to five years in prison on the money laundering conviction but Judge Priest allowed DeLay to accept 10 years of probation instead of more prison time. [...]

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Former Pedernales GM Bennie Fuelberg GUILTY on all counts

Posted in Co-op Reform, Energy, tagged Bennie Fuelberg, corruption, money laundering, pec, Pedernales, pedernales electric coop, pedernales electric cooperative, public citizen texas on December 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »

After only a day of deliberation, the jury has returned a guilty verdict on former Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) general manager Bennie Fuelberg on all counts of money laundering, theft, and misapplication of fiduciary property. During the two weeks of trial, the prosecution showed how Bennie Fuelberg filtered money through Clark, Thomas & White, the [...]

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Tom Delay GUILTY

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged money laundering, public citizen texas, republican, Tom Delay on November 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Tom Delay has been convicted of money-laundering by a Travis County jury. After three days of deliberation in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay‘s corruption trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Tom DeLay‘s defense team, presented five witnesses over two days, resting its case last Thursday. This was in stark contrast to the prosecution’s case, [...]

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Delay jurors, take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Delay trial, money laundering, Pat Priest, Tom Delay on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As Public Citizen’s offices close for the Thanksgiving holiday, the jurors in the money-laundering and conspiracy trial of former U.S. House GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay had still not come back with a verdict.

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Public Citizen’s website or Tom Delay on trial yesterday?

Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, Good Government, tagged money laundering, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, republican, texans for public justice, Texas Ethics Commission, Tom Delay, Travis County Texas on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As the Tom Delay trial got underway, the State’s first two witnesses were Craig McDonald, a former Public Citizen Texas director and now the executive director for Texans for Public Justice, and Austin attorney Fred Lewis, both of whom the defense characterized as being from the left end of the political spectrum which they attempted [...]

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Delay’s trials and tribulations move forward

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged campaign contributions, democratic party, money laundering, republican, Texas, Tom Delay, Travis County Texas, trial on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A jury for Tom DeLay‘s money laundering trial was selected quickly last week, but only after the prosecution challenged whether the defense was striking African American jurors without good cause. The defense cut five African Americans from the jury because, in several instances, he said the would-be jurors appeared angry at him after he had [...]

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Public Citizen Applauds Leadership, Vision of New PEC Board

Posted in Energy, Good Government, Renewables, tagged Austin, bill of rights, christi clement, electric coop, Energy Efficiency, larry landacker, money laundering, open government, patrick cox, pec, pec scandal, pedernales electric coop, Public Citizen, reform, renewable energy, Texas, theft, Tom "Smitty" Smith, whistleblower protection on June 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Board Promises Transparency, Whistleblower Protections, Open Meetings AUSTIN, Texas – The first meeting of the new board of the Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) on Monday marked an unprecedented change in leadership and vision for the nation’s largest electric cooperative. Not only is the majority of the board progressive reformers, but it is led by an [...]

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