Sharptown scandal event
also: Sharptown scandal, Sharpsdown scandal, Sharpsdale story
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Frank Sharpperson · 2John Singletaryperson · 1William Shepardperson · 1Ben Barnesperson · 1Tom Andersonperson · 1Gus Mutscherperson · 1Preston Smithperson · 1
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Sharptown scandal documented
“The Sharpstown scandal was about two things near and dear to Michener, banking and politics. Houston banker Frank Sharp had been running his bank fast and loose and wanted to get out from under the oversight of the FDIC. Sharp made some swe…”
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has also been involved in some not-so-legitimate enterprises. He was on the fringes of two of the biggest scandals in Texas and Houston history. The Sharptown scandal in the early 70s that toppled several of his politicians and Herman Hospi…
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The Sharpstown scandal was about two things near and dear to Michener, banking and politics. Houston banker Frank Sharp had been running his bank fast and loose and wanted to get out from under the oversight of the FDIC. Sharp made some swe…
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Stark got caught and pled guilty and took a bunch of Texas politicians down with him. One of the politicians was the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Gus Mutchner, who was convicted of taking a bribe. In 1970, a year before th…
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The politician closest to Michener who got swept away by the Sharpsdown scandal was Ben Barnes. He was a golden haired boy from Brownwood that had risen faster than any politician around him. At age 26, he became the youngest speaker of the…
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hearing in the case before U.S. District Judge John Singleton, who years later narrowly escaped getting tied into the Sharpstown scandal. During the middle of the court hearing, Tom Alexander reminded the judge that they had played golf tog…
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In 1973, Shepard was convicted for this scam and sentenced to 15 years in jail. His name also surfaced in the Sharptown scandal of the 1970s, which was a stock fraud investigation. Shepard was giving rides in his Learjet to politicians, inc…