A Year After a Corruption Scandal, Crystal City Works to Pick Up the Pieces
You may remember hearing about Crystal City, Texas about this time a year ago. The story made national headlines and brought a lot of unwanted attention to the small city southwest of San Antonio.
The city’s mayor, mayor pro-tem and two council members were indicted on federal corruption charges, leaving just one council member unscathed. There were accusations ranging from mishandling town funds and taking bribes to colluding with a local, underground gambling kingpin known as ‘Mr. T.’
Crystal City is a town of less than 8,000 people. It’s a town even many Texans hadn’t heard of before the indictments were handed down and government officials were arrested. Then a media circus rolled in.
Local news outlets took interest. So did national ones. Crystal City went from being the self-proclaimed ‘Spinach Capital of the World’ to what the Washington Post called “the most corrupt little town in America.”
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