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    TEXAS BORDER POLICE CHIEF ACCUSED OF STEALING BORDER ENFORCEMENT GRANT MONEY

    TEXAS BORDER POLICE CHIEF ACCUSED OF STEALING GRANT MONEY: ‘I DID IT OUT OF LAZINESS AND STUPIDITY’



    by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ 23 Jun 2015 6

    McALLEN, Texas – A retired Texas border police chief is expected to turn himself in to authorities on federal charges accusing him of stealing money from a federal border-enforcement grant.

    Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations have charged former Rio Grande City Police Chief Byron Dutch Piper with theft of a program that received federal funds, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed.


    Piper served as the police chief in the border city of Rio Grande from March 2005 to December 2014 when he retired.


    According to the court records, from 2009 to 2014 RGCPD received money from a federal grant called Stone Garden, which provided funds to border police departments to work overtime hours securing the border.


    In October 2014, the FBI received information that Piper collected grant money for details that he didn’t work. In December, the FBI set up a surveillance operation and spotted Piper doing personal errands, eating at a local restaurant, and staying at home when in government records he supposedly worked border security operations.


    In January and in February, Piper met with FBI agents in McAllen, where he admitted to submitting the false time cards.

    In the February meeting, Piper signed a written confession: “In Reference to the Stone Garden project, I did not work seventy percent of the time, as I wrote on my time sheet.… I did it out of laziness and stupidity.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/...and-stupidity/

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    I certainly hope that the legal system while dealing with him does not display "laziness and stupidity." I believe cases as these deserve the most sever penalty prescribed.

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    EDITORIAL: Latest Texas border security surge ripe for deception, fiscal waste

    Associated Press— Eric Gay, file
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this month approved $800 million for border security over the next two years, more than double any similar period under 14 years of Gov. Rick Perry.


    Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 12:01 am

    Texans may have just bought an $800 million pig in a poke on an issue that tops their list of statewide priorities: securing the border. After years of making hay about the federal government’s alleged failures, state leaders have funded a border security surge amazingly free of regular, sustained metrics to prove whether this state initiative is even working.


    Not very conservative, especially for state lawmakers who pushed this plan on extraordinarily sketchy claims border security remains a massive problem. When a Texas Senate amendment was offered to measure the success of state agencies through their direct role in arrests and drug seizures in counties on the border, border security bill sponsor Brian Birdwell refused it. He allowed an amendment of his own setting up a joint legislative committee to study implementation in the interim but on only the fuzziest of outlines.


    If a federal law were approved without such hard data, Birdwell and his tea-party mob would howl to heaven about the lack of accountability.


    Already the Texas Department of Public Safety has been caught stretching facts on border security. To claim success this year amid a bid to win more border security funding during this legislative session, state officials led by DPS director Steve McCraw reported arrest and seizure data slyly incorporating efforts of local law enforcement and the U.S. Border Patrol. They refused to break down the specific role of the DPS in these reports, despite all the taxpayer money invested.


    It took an investigative report by the Austin American-Statesman to finally do the job of state officials: the Texas DPS was responsible for less than 10 percent of the totals. In other words, state law enforcement officials were relying on the work of federal law enforcement to bolster their image — and at the very same time Birdwell and others were running around talking about getting tough on immigration because the feds wouldn’t do it. The outrage is too many Texans swallowed it all — hook, line and sinker.


    To add further to the hypocrisy, Birdwell in his “Capitol Update” last month informed constituents he was supporting a fellow lawmaker’s bill on pre-kindergarten because “this legislation finally inserts strong accountability standards and metrics to track their success and, thus, the success of our young Texans.” But when fellow senators attempted to demand such exacting accountability provisions in his own bill on border security, they were politely but firmly rebuffed.


    Birdwell has assured skeptical border legislators that this law as very broadly amended will address their concerns, though his deference to the DPS in light of that agency’s lack of transparency is troubling and suggests he may not really understand their concerns. Given the amount of money being spent on border security, Birdwell needs watching as much as state forces along the border the next two years. Why would we not want hard figures, and by month, to determine if these millions of dollars are being wisely spent?

    http://www.wacotrib.com/opinion/edit...8e626208d.html

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    It is tough to trust a politician from Texas. Here, or elsewhere I read that a very, very large percentage of this 800 mil is going to "settling in" the new aliens. Remember, it is tough to impossible to trust a politician from Texas.

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