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David Hittner

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    He's an Out-of-Comptroller!

    Former city tourism official accused of paying mom's nursing home bills out of agency funds

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    Shaka's Last Supper

    He wouldn't eat it, so they did!

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    Stale Mail at the Fed

    Urine, tax returns, and credit card payments pile up at the federal building

  • News

    October 18, 2001

    Payback Time?

    Dick DeGuerin beat the IRS. Now there's a bigger war over basic rights.

  • Best of Houston

    September 26, 2002

    Best Court Ruling

    U.S. District Judge David Hittner

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    The Most Unimpressive Hacker Ever

    Those wily IT guys.A computer tech who was a contract worker for the energy giant Calpine is going to federal prison for a year and a day because he hacked into an employee's computer and used it for nefarious purposes.Actually, not all that nefarious -- he used the financial information contained o ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 1994

    Out of the Soup

    Yes, the city's settlement of a lawsuit was a good deal -- for Helen Huey

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Forbidden Love In China, A Guilty Plea In Houston

    Houstonian Gregory Blackard found love, or at least sex, in Beijing. He met a Chinese woman and had an intense, intimate, secret relationship for more than two years.The problem was that he was a contractor helping to build the new American Embassy there, and his high-level security clearance requir ... More >>

  • News

    June 20, 1996

    Moving Day

    Houstonian Gregory Blackard found love, or at least sex, in Beijing. He met a Chinese woman and had an intense, intimate, secret relationship for more than two years.The problem was that he was a contractor helping to build the new American Embassy there, and his high-level security clearance requir ... More >>

  • News

    August 29, 1996

    The Right Kind of People

    Ken Schnitzer gets off -- with a little help from his friends

  • News

    September 5, 1996

    The Insider

    Ken Schnitzer gets off -- with a little help from his friends

  • News

    October 3, 1996

    Letters

    Ken Schnitzer gets off -- with a little help from his friends

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    The Insider

    Ken Schnitzer gets off -- with a little help from his friends

  • News

    October 2, 1997

    The Insider

    Ken Schnitzer gets off -- with a little help from his friends

  • News

    February 12, 1998

    The Insider

    Ken Schnitzer gets off -- with a little help from his friends

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    Take the Cash and Talk That Trash

    The hotel six sting hits the little screen

  • News

    April 9, 1998

    The Hotel Six Joker Turns Wild

    A chance encounter and a federal feud endanger the sting

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Mysteries of Hotel Six

    The government's case nears an end, but the questions continue

  • News

    May 7, 1998

    Sancho Panza Takes the Stand

    Will John Castillo ever escape Ben Reyes's shadow?

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Taken to the Woodshed

    A federal judge rips three city attorneys and their bosses for how they handled the Barbra Piotrowski lawsuit

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    Summer Reruns at Hotel Six

    Been there, done that, doing it again

  • News

    November 26, 1998

    Betti's Last Stand

    Why couldn't she just say no?

  • Music

    January 7, 1999

    Don't Cry for Me, Houston

    Friends join in as Betti sings her final convictions

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    Betti's Blue Notes

    Singing (and Stinging) in the rain

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    The Devil, You Say?

    The spooky self-destruction of asatanic-cult-memory trial

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Has Robert Eckels Lost His Mind?

    Or is the county judge just crazylike a fox?

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Checkout Time at Hotel Six

    Michael and the two Johns face the music

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Good Times, Bad Times

    A federal lawsuit accuses the county of upping the pressure for guilty pleas

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    In Their Own Words

    Judging by the idle chatter of Hotel Six politicos, the moral barometer at City Hall is in free fall

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    Do As I Do, Not As I Say

    Fastow plea deal contradicts the feds' policy

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    Make It S-T-O-P

    The Texans go scoreless on tunes as well as turf

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Letters

    The Texans go scoreless on tunes as well as turf

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Spring Time for Ben and Betti?

    Time's running out on commutation efforts

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Home Sweet Cell

    Finally, a David Allen house with four walls

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Bishop's Endgame

    An early GOP force could be savoring party triumphs -- from prison

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    Burying the Hotel Hatchet

    An early GOP force could be savoring party triumphs -- from prison

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    And the Sting Goes On

    Round Three offers fresh lawyers, a new villain and the same old flicks

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Going Through These Things Twice

    tuck inside of Hotel Six with the Houston blues again

  • News

    December 26, 1996

    Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

    tuck inside of Hotel Six with the Houston blues again

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Bacliff's 4th Street Players Gang Gets Hit With Federal Prison

    As Hurricane Ike threatened the Upper Texas Coast, we went to press with the story of the 4th Street Players, a predominantly white Anglo street gang in the Galveston Bay town of Bacliff. Nine members of the gang, who wore red colors in emulation of LA's Blood gangs, had been arrested in May of last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Three Hurricanes, Three Fraud Schemes

    Wherever there's a hurricane, ma, I'll be there...Wherever a FEMA official's handing out a form to fill, I'll be the person scamming them...Wherever -- Well, we don't think the Tom Joad speech at the end of The Grapes of Wrath goes exactly like that, but it would if Phyllis Ann Taylor was saying it. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Two Pastors And A Deacon Admit That Their Church Was One Hell Of A Scam

    ​Some blog items never die.Almost a year ago we wrote about the fraud charges filed against officials of the Fishers of Men Worship Center in Houston. To this day, barely a week goes by without someone throwing up another comment on the case, either defending the officials or saying they got what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Insurance Employees Plead Guilty To Living The High Life

    ​Two employees of The Hartford, which the rest of us call The Hartford Insurance Company, pleaded guilty today to charges that they let a Houston attorney entertain the hell out of them in return for helping him make a mint off lawsuits.Rachel Rossow and Frederick Prestage pleaded guilty to conspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Kelsey Gloston, 19, Learns Her Lesson: Don't Piss Off Judge David Hittner

    Anonymous commenters are pretty rough on Judge Hittner​U.S. District Judge David Hittner has been on the federal bench almost 25 years, and he's definitely earned a reputation for wanting things done his way.College student Kelsey Gloston didn't know that, though, so she was arrested and handcuffe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Jeff Henry Williamson Learns Not To Send Bomb Threats To The FBI From The Houston Public Library

    Mess with the FBI at your own risk​Jeff Henry Williamson, who thought it was a good idea to use the Houston Public Library downtown to send threats about blowing up the FBI building, learned otherwise today.U.S. District Judge David Hittner sentenced Williamson to three and a half years in federal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Fishers of Men: Pastor And Associates Get Prison Time For Fraud

    Go thou and defraudeth FEMA....​It was almost two years ago that we wrote about the Fishers of Men scandal, a church in southwest Houston whose pastor and associates were charged with various financial shenanigans.It sparked a comment war between defenders and accusers that lasted so long and got ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Allen Stanford: Now Officially Broke, Gets Good Attorneys

    Allen Stanford's new lawyer​Allen Stanford, the much-put-upon onetime gazillionaire, has finally reached the end of his assembly line of attorneys representing him against massive criminal-fraud charges.Stanford had been going through the higher echelons of the Houston criminal defense bar for som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Jerry Eversole Trial: Jury Deadlocked, So They Get Another Round of Final Arguments

    Jerry Eversole: Getting his money's worth out of Rusty Hardin.​Jurors in the corruption trial of County Commissioner Jerry Eversole have told U.S. District Judge David Hittner they are deadlocked, so he has sentenced them to a second round of final arguments, according to media tweets from rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Jerry Eversole: Ever-Smooth County Commissioner Skates Away

    Jerry Eversole, free man​County Commissioner Jerry Eversole, who's ruled his little piece of Harris County forever, has escaped yet again from allegations of having a rather loose interpretation of ethics rules. A federal jury could not come to a decision on whether Eversole took $100,000 in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Barry Walter Bujol Jr.: Hempstead Student Convicted of Helping Al Qaeda

    Guilty, judge says​A 30-year-old Prairie View A&M student has been convicted of providing aid to Al Qaeda. Barry Walter Bujol Jr. had a four-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge David Hittner, who ruled this afternoon. Bujol offered no witnesses or defense to charges he had materially a ... More >>

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