By John Marshall
When Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a invoice in may perhaps 2009 authorizing the Brazos River Authority to promote the whole inhabited coastline of Possum country Lake, now not many of us puzzled it. however the extraordinary factor is that the valuables in query have been bought precisely one month past to an excellent ol’ boy that had earned the nickname “the River Card.”
While the Texas legislature were busy contemplating the need of the folks, the Brazos River Authority have been busy promoting the land. the ultimate sale fee was once fifty million money. The predicted price of the land used to be one billion dollars.
Playing Possum bargains a close research of the most expensive political scandal perpetrated in Texas because the Sharpstown Stock-Fraud scandal. It concerned the state’s strongest politicians—including the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the lawyer general—but to today only a few humans comprehend what fairly happened.
It additionally concerned the major applicants for those self same workplaces in 2014.
This actual account unearths how the taxpayers of Texas have been cheated out of roughly one thousand million cash worthy of leading Texas genuine property in a narrative of high-stakes genuine property poker.
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