Listen, I know the market is volatile. I get that. Sometimes it’s best to stay liquid, keep some of your assets in cash. But keeping $100,000 at your house, in a safe? Innocent until proven guilty, blah, blah, blah. Sure, yes.
But John Wiley Price is screwed.
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Everybody dreams of a Scrooge McDuck room in their home. John Wiley lives it.
I’m sure he’s just holding it for a friend, amirite?
At least it wasn’t in his freezer, right?
I hope he still thinks he can beat the charges, if not he’s a definite flight risk.
Should have stashed the cash in the bird food out by the pool.
The “Observer” is all over this story. Some nice work by Jim S. This is getting delicious!
Might be more cash in the freezer or buried in the flower beds. I hope the FBI got his passport……all of them.
We’ll see. Is John Price the rare American – rich or poor – who keeps serious cash stashed at home? I doubt it.
Sure, that $$$ may well be the tip of the iceberg, but over 27 years in office, at an average of $100K a year, he’s made $2.7 million in salary. That’s a lot, and it’s legit money he’s played with over his adult life.
If he’s committed a crime(s) he should go down (even if it’s just for good old fashioned tax evasion).
Meanwhile, Texas Governor Rick Perry (on the public payroll for 26 years and counting) now uses his taxpayer-funded “Enterprise Fund” to award tens of millions of our hard-earned dollars to the iffy companies of his contributors/cronies, yielding God knows what personal real estate and stock deals.
Lots of politicians go from poor to rich in office, especially over a long haul, and Texans and Americans send them back to office time and again. Price is a local piker compared to most of them. It’s not an excuse, but I’m just sayin’.
Well, now I’m slightly less excited about the three singles I found in an old purse yesterday.
@Jackson – you sir, are only adding perspective. Well done.
Can you please bring back the Laura Miller article from 1991, The Hustler?
Do the Price allegations (and the new ones arriving tomorrow) mean that JimS is no longer crazy, or that his best journalism is behind him? This is a rhetorical question.