Oh how different it must be to walk in the world well known and powerful and to claim your fall from grace was being caused by the same culture that lifted you to the heights. To have sat on your hands and watched as the least among us could find no audience for their claims of innocence and then in your day of trouble to point to the system you have been helping to run and to point to those in it and to proclaim you have been done wrong.
Those that have felt the rotten courthouse culture we have had around here for years has caused them to be dealt with unjustly must really be shedding crocodile tears. Oh but wait Judge Fitzgerald, your accuser is not local, he is federal. He has no ties here. He has no reason to believe one person over another. This outsider has a reputation just the opposite of the culture you have helped to perpetuate. He has a reputation of following the facts. So any comparison with others folks claiming their legal matters in Liberty County have been determined by politics ends there.
But hearing the acknowledgment of a political culture that exerts influence in Liberty County’s justice system should not end here. This should be the beginning Judge Fitzgerald. Many have pointed at our system and proclaimed what you now have, but people like you denied it. This can be a new beginning for you. Start with the names of the people you are accusing. Spell them out! Who are you talking about? Your known nemesis? Are you talking about revenge and on your budget slashing attempt? Or are you talking about the mail thief who was gathering information to defame one of your opponents? Oh it truly is a political world you come from.
But let me make a suggestion to you. Rather than point to people who may have told about your FEMA contracts for revenge for things you have done or things you have been involved with, why don’t you do something to lessen your penalty and to help Liberty County. Why not point to the one whose budget has been dramatically increased? The “politics” of turning over information that may lead to the arrest and conviction of your enemy is not illegal. In fact, it helps keep our public officials cleaner than they otherwise would be. But wheeling and dealing to hide or suppress evidence and benefiting by that with a larger budget among other things - that kind of finger pointing may benefit your case as well as benefit the public.
Or you can take your chances on telling the good people in Beaumont what a political bunch of “gotcha politics” we have over here. But if you do stick with your current defense, please think of all of the known attempts to indict those who have spoken up about your FEMA contracts. Think of the Grand Juries and the people in the District Attorney’s office and attempts to imprison people that have not taken one red cent from taxpayers - now that is political!
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Hawthorne is the best lawyer in Beaumont and he will wipe the floor with Bales.
Hahahaha! Bales would never have brought this case if he didn't have it wrapped up. The only
question left is how long will Judge Fitzgerald serve in prison.
Phil dont have the guts to say who his "political opponents" are who gave incomplete or incorrect information to the feds.
Why would the FEDS bring a case to court without having good evidense to back up their case? Most of these Federal Court cases are proven beyond a shadow of doubt. Don't forget, this is not Liberty County Court Phil is in now.
nancy archer shoulders all the blame for the demise of my party. she turned a blind eye to the corruption and allowed the democrat party in liberty county to go to the dogs..big dogs that is. it is time for her to resign so we can rebuild our party.in fact the logical new leader of our party should be allen youngblood. if he becomes party chair it would make all of us very happy.
i like phil and i hope he really does have evidence that shows he is innocent.i do not like little or fairchild, they are not good people
I find it very disappopinting when public officials do NOT blow the whistle on what they see is wrong around them. This was no minor thing.
If you go along to get along and hide your head in the sand,instaed of standing up to these people like Chap Cain did,then you are just as guilty as they are for letting this kind of thing happen in Liberty County. (HAWK)
Mike Little and Sheriff Patterson both knew about Phil Fitzgerald's crimes long before the media was tipped off. In fact they knew about two months before the media knew. Why aren't these men in jail or facing an indictment? We need strong, brave law enforcement officers, not those who are afraid to take the tough cases.
Well,I read in the Beaumont Enterprise that Phil and Lee both plead NOT GUILTY to their Federal charges yesterday morning in Federal Court at Beaumont. I guess at this stage that was all they could do. I think the FEDS were good to them,by not indicting them until they were voted out of office and their replacements had taken office.
I wonder why the Feds are not going after the rest.Most give the bid to their Buddies and it wasn't the low bidders either.Most got the bid then hired out of state contractors to do the clean up.
I would like to see who voted to pay these supposed fraud bills in Commissioners Court. There are five votes in the Commissioners Court,so this tells me that Lee and Phil could not have pulled this scam off by themselves. Was these other Commissioners completly ignorant of what was going on? I don't think so.
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