Today in John Wiley Price

By Robert Wilonsky Wed., Jun. 29 2011 at 8:18 AM

Categories: County Government

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It's the "other expenses" that caught Channel 5's attention last night.

It's land! No, no, it's Kwanzaa Fest! No, silly, it's an art gallery owner at the South Side of Lamar! On the other side, some video and an IRS return we're entering into evidence as we begin Day Three of Hunh, I Wonder Why The Feds Raided the Homes, Offices and Cars of John Wiley Price and Dapheny Fain and Kathy Nealy and a Player to Be Named Later.

Several times over the course of the last two days, Friends of Unfair Park have pointed back to Danny Defenbaugh's report concerning constables coercing their subordinates to provide free security for Price's Kwanzaa Fest. And while you're at it, read the doc below: the latest tax return for event, for which Fain serves as president and Nealy's the director. It's the subject of the Channel 5 story that follows. (Update: As Editor Joe and a Friend of Unfair Park point out, on Page 17 of the tax return you'll notice it says Kwanzaa Fest received $989,000 in drugs and medical supplies -- roughly the same amount of uncategorized expenses -- which appear to have been doled out at HealthFests held in 2008 and '09.) KwanzaaFestTaxReturn

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The next story proves at least one thing: Brett Shipp and I must have gotten the same tip yesterday, because we too sent a reporter, Leslie, over to the South Side of Lamar lofts looking for another person FBI agents want to talk to -- someone who also shares a tax return with Price and Fain, courtesy an awkwardly named nonprofit foundation not mentioned in Shipp's story but about which we'll have more shortly.

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"It seems to be it would be practically impossible for these elected officials to separate their financial self interests from the interests of their constituents:" It seems they've found new ways to maximize those synergies yielding greater profits and consideration.
I can do that, anyone interested please call me at 214 228 8994
I've been involved with some 501c3s-6s in the Dallas area run by corrupt white boys and seen how IRS and its investigative partners give a sh#t about these kind of returns. FBI investigation is more likely focused on elected official corruption rather than IRS 501c3 fraud, as white boys get away with it flagrantly.
His name is Baity. And, I'm pretty certain he lawyered-up first thing this morning.
always gotta have the last word. LOL. Seriously, I'm glad you're there checking it out. Take care.
Actually, no. I completely understand the importance of the story. I merely pointed out an inaccuracy.
Same name, wrong person. The right one went to WIlmer-Hutchins, I believe.
Same name, wrong person. The right one attended Wilmer-Hutchins.
As an aside, I believe Sen. Royce West and Rep. Rafael Anchia are partners in a firm (Civitas) that was awarded the exclusive right to run the EB-5 immigration program for the City of Dallas. This is the deal that channels foreign investment into local projects, with the foreign investor getting a green card out of the deal. Part of the funding for the new boutique hotel in the Cedars that Jack Matthews is developing is coming via that program, I believe. And then, of course, there are what seem to be rather obvious conflicts between Sen. Royce West role as an elected representative while simultaneously collecting millions in legal fees from entities that he is charged with overseeing (i.e. DISD) via his roles on various legislative committees. And, no one has done anything about the silent partners (like Eddie Bernice Johnson) in various concessions at DFW. I mean, for crying out loud, she sits on the House Aviation Subcommittee that is tasked with legislative oversight of the very same airport! It seems to be it would be practically impossible for these elected officials to separate their financial self interests from the interests of their constituents: -When Sen. Royce West is faced with championing a law that might improve oversight over DISD, how can he legitimately do so, knowing that his multi-million dollar stream of legal fees from DISD as a client might be jeopardized as a result? Moreover, wouldn't legal ethics in certain cases actually preclude Sen. West from diligently representing his constituents, if such representation was not in the best interests of his client, DISD? -Similarly, how could anyone reasonably expect Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson to be impartial with respect to how she approached laws regulating DFW Airport, when taking action adverse to the airport could potentially jeopardize a huge stream of ongoing profit participations associated with various retail concessions she holds at the airport?
Regarding the update to the story regarding page 17 of Form 990. The $989,000 if donated medicines does not agree to the $898,253 listed as non cash donations on page 9. Therefore, the difference between that and the total contributions of $1,047,764 is cash donations, either $150k or $58k depending on the non-cash number you used. If they received $58k in cash you would expect ending cash to drop due to cash expenses of $141k. Therefore, you would expect cash to drop about $83k. Cash in fact went up about $4k, therefore I think that the $898,253 was actually donated. Furthermore, line 24 where the $930k in other is recorded states miscellaneous may not exceed 5% of total expenses. The point is there are several inconsistencies in the return. A well run charity will for purposes of transparency not have these questions in a filed report. Most of this will be on the CPA and he will be in the hot seat. As I said before, you flip the accountant, you can get to the leader.
Maybe this is her on the slide # 6? http://www.papercitymag.com/SlideShow.aspx?ObjectType=1&ObjectId=360&Start=0
still waiting on a comment from Royce West....anyone going to ask him to go on the record? what are your financial ties to jwp? Inland Port? Tom Joyner Foundation (check out their 990);his firm's legal fees from the County/City (bond counsel, really?) Jim/Robert....ask the hard questions...it's all hiding in plain view.
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Thanks. I can't un-read that, unfortunately.
Yet.
Somebody is missing the forest for the trees.
But then how does that entity show the $$$ on their taxes? Or do they? Or do they just go ahead and pay taxes on that "profit"? I guess I'm not very good at money laundering. Or even clothes laundering, for that matter.
At least jwp doesn't have a loud mouth asshole walking up and down the sidewalk in front of his house calling his mom a whore.
Be nice to see JWP perped-walked in a yellow jump suit to join his friends in Federal Prison.
Just providing clarification, mm and Jim Bob Guthrie. To some, facts are kinda important.
Free James Brown!
People still eat at Dickey's?
What about the beans. Godawful crap.
Thanks... I am going to take a hot shower now. To rinse that out of my mind.
would you rather eat Dickey's bbq or Dickey's meat flaps?
I heard that The Lady Dickey got moist when she read this. Maybe she will do something about that shit meat they serve.
Jaime Cortez. Jail is a scary place for a crooked ex-cop.
I feel like Im watching a game of Jenga....just waiting, waiting, waiting for it all to fall down...
...or an office.....
LOL, really? That's awesome. Must be nice to have a business where someone will just toss you 50k and you don't even need a website. Sweeeeet.
What is the connection on all of it? The constables. Cars seized by the constables end up in Price's hands. People arrested by constables end up being bonded out by bondsmen who give Price sweetheart land deals. Price runs a festival with free security by the constables. This all goes back to the constables. One of them has flipped on Price.
Look on the bright side everyone. At least all of the jail reforms the Sherriff has been trying to implement will now get commissioner court support. Also, does he still have the Lotus? I love me some county auctions.
Dwaine Caraway ordered a ton of campaign signs from my work.. he never paid either.. nice.. this is how we do business.. shit on the local business man and pay people who don't exist ! Dirk for Mayor !
No. DeDe Willis. She's online a few places: a site for Wilmer-Hutchins alumni, for one, and betternetworker.com, where she says she's been an entrepreneur for 7 years "with an open mind and the willingness of a sponge."
The Willis of Facilitator Pro http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dede-willis/20/482/8
Hum, Creuzot. I *am* surprised.
Fain lives in DeSoto, for starters, but JWP's street-level organization has deep roots there, regardless.
The LAST name of Willis - that is interesting, it made me think of South Dallas political consultant Willis Johnson, could they have flipped the fields?
To be serious, he has paid quite a bit of money to "maintain campaign vehicles". Everytime I see the large figures for services and premiums on hard assets I cant help but think laundering or personal benefit (i.e. self or girlfriend(s))
Brandon, I know you have some theories on this issue. I know it relates to the probate court. Not wanted you to give away your scoop on the matter, but when might you share?
http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=thefacilitatorpro.com&prog_id=GoDaddy Campaign expenditure reports of John C. Creuzot, Dist. 4 District Judge lists $5,850.00 to FacilitatorPro on 2/17/2007 Dwaine Caraway campaign expenditure lists $3,500.00 consulting fee in May 2007 to FacilitatorPro http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/pdf/CFReports/caraway-july15-07.pdf
I used to live at South Side on Lamar and lived next door to the woman they are talking about. JWP spent a LOT of time there.
I guess the upkeep on Kwanzaa Klause's sleigh is high. Those 22"s ain't gonna shine themselves.
Wylie -- according to the TX Sec. of State, a company called Facilitator Pro, Inc. was formed by a person with the last name of Willis, at 731 S. RL Thornton Freeway, in November 2010. No other record prior to that one.
That's kind of what I was thinking. If I was going to hire a contractor to do "grass roots" types of organizing, I'd either: a) hire a legitimate organization with an established reputation; or b) just hire the folks myself. Otherwise, if you just $50,000 to a P.O. Box in DeSoto, it seems like you would just be setting yourself up to get ripped off.... unless there was another reason for doing it that way. I always figured that the way shady payments would be disguised would be by "laundering" them through an established P.R. firm, law firm, etc. That way, all that shows up on the campaign finance disclosure form would be a huge lump sum payment to law firm X, or p.r. firm Y.
AHHH
"Grassroots" traditionally means paying people to knock on doors and/or make phone calls. This is allowable and many legitimate campaigns do it as part of a campaign effort. Here's the deal, though, a campaign manager usually would run that kind of thing out of their own office, because you want to get accountability, you want to make sure those walkers actually DO the work and that those walk sheets make it back to you and get entered in your system, and so on a REAL campaign finance report you wind up with a bunch of line items of checks going to your individual walkers that you pay yourself. Sure, you can subcontract it all, but, well, you just chuck that 50k at one of your vendors and ... poof... who knows what happens next? ;)
My first guess is Kathy Nealy. She is a "grassroots" activist. Sure would like to see what her tax return looks like.
I do believe the IRS was involved with the FBI on all these raids
Oh, snap! They'll be shuddering the doors at Channel 8 by noon.
I really hope they get in to some of the odd linkages between North Dallas and South Dallas. Take, for example, this $50,000 payment made by Vote No! Save the Trinity to an outfit called "Facilitator Pro" on 9/20/07 for something labelled as "Grassroots." http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/pdf/CFReports/Vote-No-Save-Trinity_30th-2007.pdf (page 13) The only address given for the organization is a post office box in DeSoto, Texas. It's website has been dead for as long as I've been checking it, and extensive google searching only turns up the following: http://www.notaryrotary.com/archive/TX/Find_a_Notary_In_DeSoto_Texas.html In other words, the entity doesn't seem to have much of an existence; what is public in the City of Dallas filings reveals little info about who, exactly ended up with that $50,000 and why (what is "grassroots"; why does it cost $50,000?). How come the entity that received it doesn't appear to have any physical presence?
Well. That changes everything.
Channel 8 and Shipp have it wrong. The City Hall FBI raids were six years ago (June 2005), not five.
Like I said before, all pieces of a puzzle. The tax return is probably meant to flip his accountant.
NO JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, only 0.93% of the $1.0 million KwanzaPricefest raised goes to charitable activities with the rest going to "expenses"? That's low hanging fruit for the IRS, JWP may owe taxes on "expenses" the his nonprofit repaid him, better yet they may invalidate the donations as tax exempt. Wonder how many "People of the North" will have to file amended returns when this is over? Self-dealing is a BIG no no for nonprofits. It's really bizarre how often these scandals (Lipscomb, Hill, Price) involves cars and how blatant they are in displaying who they're in bed with, of course its easy when you get a pass by The DMN and Dmag.
Highly doubt Price has FBI going after him for this Kwanzaa Fest tax return, regardless of how suspicious this tax return appears. This is not how IRS operates. The IRS does not send the FBI out for enforcement action, they send their own CID (criminal investigation division). The FBI is not part of US Treasury/IRS. FWIW, check out page 16 of tax return, Schedule M. Note the $989,000 of non cash contributions revenues for "Drugs and Medical Supplies".
Please let all this stick. It would be so nice to scrape barnacles like this off the ass of Dallas.
These are all pieces of a puzzle. Cars bought from people out on bond. Land bought from a bail bondsmen. Investigation into uncategorized expenses from the Kwanzaafest. CPA who signed the Kwanzaafest tax returns is also a realtor. If you look at each individual issue, you might say "is that all the Feds got?" Federal cases are about cumulative crimes. A series of smaller corruption issues over a 26 year period added together equal RICO. As a CPA myself, I think that the federal grand jury's inquest into the Kwanzaafest is very interesting. We have all seen the Untouchables, you flip the accountant, you get the leader.