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Good Kind Things for Others
Category:
Crime
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN-10: 1425719058
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 267
Copyright: 2006
When his aging mother, suffering from osteoporosis, is admitted to BSA Hospital in Amarillo, the Author returns to his hometown in the Texas Panhandle. His mother is unable to walk and he decides to move back to help her and his family.
Unexpectedly, he gets pulled into a web of deceit in a small town with big problems.
He ends up battling his family and a good ol’ boy system corrupt in bigotry, control, irrational management, intimidation of doctors, Federal Lawsuits, FBI investigations, a DA’s hit and run DWI, press censorship, ignored citizen’s petitions to remove government officials and an attempted child pornography cover-up of a hospital Chief Financial Officer.
PUBLIC CORRUPTION IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
In January, 2005, no one was more shocked than Rick Roach, District Attorney, when a team of plainclothes FBI agents walked into the courtroom in Pampa, Texas. Roach was conducting a forfeiture hearing when the agents arrived to serve him an arrest warrant.
The FBI had uncovered Roach’s use of methamphetamines with intent to distribute and possession of more than 30 firearms.
John Mann, the former District Attorney, who was voted out of office in 2000, was not surprised about the arrest of Rick Roach. During a 1996 campaign for District Attorney of the thirty-first district, it was brought to the public’s attention that Roach had undergone treatment for alcohol and drug abuse.
Roach admitted in the Canadian Record that he allowed peer pressure to get him involved with marijuana and some amphetamines and he had undergone treatment. Although, Roach admitted it was wrong and I made a mistake, he lost that election.
Apparently, Rich Roach wasn’t discouraged and he never moved his sights from becoming a District Attorney. After all, he was living in a small Texas Panhandle town where people like to think the best of others, forgive and often look the other way. It’s no secret that the largest church in small towns usually has a large enough congregation to support a shoe-in for any member ambitious enough to run for political office.
By 2000, Roach was performing regularly in a Christian Gospel Band. He was looking good, clean cut, well dressed and well forgiven. He was convincing to the church going crowd and played the Church Card in narrowly winning the election. Drunk on power, the new District Attorney accelerated out of control down a road of arrogance, greed, deception, illegal drugs and public corruption…
Excerpt
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do not do anything about it." -Albert Einstein
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