texas prosecutor told "leave Trump alone"

[mnmoderatedem]

by his boss who is now, surprise! the republican governor of Texas.

"A former Texas official said a fraud investigation into Trump University was silenced in 2010, under “highly unusual” circumstances. Former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection John Owens told CBS he had a strong case against Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s company for scamming students at his unaccredited real estate school. Shortly after the company folded in 2010, Owens’ says he was ordered to drop the case."

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/05/3784897/trump-university-texas-investigation/

[malaise]

1. So the ReTHUG wingnuts were given campaign contributions to leave Don the Con alone

Guess they all loved the birther racism against the President.

Truth will out!

Get on it Loretta Lynch - this is criminality.

[Rex]

2. Illegal? That doesn't bother the Texas governors mansion in the least bit!

They've been accused of so many illegal activities, that I think people have just given up.

[renate]

3. wouldn't it be excellent if this ended up spreading to corrupt governors and AGs too?

It's sweet enough that a story damaging to Trump finally has a shelf life of more than a day, but if other icky politicians were affected too...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. I think it happened in Florida too.

[Ilsa]

5. Kick & Rec. We know TU bought off TX & FL

Attorneys General. Now we have a witness publicly saying he was told to back off.

Kicking for daytime exposure.

[SunSeeker]

6. K & R for exposure. nt

[KamaAina]

7. They better get an accessible jail cell ready for Abbott!

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[yellowcanine]

9. And I believe there were some donations by Trump to some of the politicians involved.....

Smoke, fire, sparks, oh my!