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State judge suspected
of living outside district
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Associated Press
HOUSTON — Harris County
prosecutors have launched an inves
tigation into a charge that a state
judge lives outside the district in
which he serves, a violation of the
law which requires judges to live in
their district.
District Attorney John Holmes
said he has assigned the chief of his
office’s investigation division. Bob
Blaylock, to look into a charge raised
by a television Station’s story that
State District Judge I.D. McMaster
lives outside of Harris County while
serving asjudge in the county.
The copyright report by KPRC-
TV on Sunday said McMaster has
lived in Omega Bay, a Galveston
County development, since Septem
ber 1982.
Records on file with the Demo
cratic Party of Harris County show
that the judge listed his address
when he registered for re-election as
Seabrook Shipyard in Seabrook,
Texas — the location of a sailboat.
Holmes said if the investigation
substantiates the charge that the
judge lives outside the district, pros
ecutors could file a suit to remove
McMaster from office, contending
“he’s not qualified to hold it.”
He said there was a possibility Mc
Master could face a perjury charge if
he swore on official election forms
that he lived at one address when he
actually lived at another.
Bob Flowers, executive director of
the Texas Commission on Judicial
Conduct, said his organization could
take disciplinary action against Mc
Master only if it was demonstrated
that the judge “had intentionally de
ceived the public.”
McMaster refused to talk about
the case in detail, saying, “I’m going
to talk to the proper authorities
when the time comes.”
Flowers said if a complaint is
lodged against the judge, a judicial
conduct commission would form a
seven-judge tribunal made of jurists
from Texas’ 14 appeals courts. That
group would hear the case against
the judge. Either side could appeal
its ruling to the Texas Supreme
Court, Flowers said.
If McMaster were held to have vi
olated the law, any attempt to void
his previous decisions would likely
come on a case-by-case basis, Flowers
said.
McMaster presided over the trial
of David Port, 18, who was convicted
of murder and sentenced to 75 years
in prison for the June 1984 slaying
of postal worker Deborah Sue
Schatz.
CPA accused of drug dealing;
denies money-laundering ring
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A certified public
accountant accused of master
minding a drug and money-laun
dering ring said Monday in his 6-
week-old trial that he earned his
money from a healthy accounting
practice and a Houston blueprinting
company.
Drake Williams, 38, of Santa Fe,
N.M., is accused of leading an al
leged drug gang that sold millions of
dollars worth of marijuana and co
caine and laundered the profits
through legitimate businesses.
Under questioning, Williams ex
plained why he put nearly $800,000
in a Swiss bank account in 1982,
nearly a year after he learned he and
his business, A Jiffy Inc., were under
investigation by federal authorities.
Williams said a federal prosecutor
in El Paso scared him by vowing that
the government would take away all
of his alleged “dope money.”
“I was trying to protect myself, my
family, my employees and my em
ployees’ families,” Williams testified.
He also denied previous witnesses’
claims that he supervised multi-ton
pot deals and that he was a heavy co
caine user.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Mag-
idson has accused Williams of laun
dering $290,000 in drug profits in
1980 and 1982 by directing asso
ciates to buy scores of cashier’s
checks for less than $10,000, the
smallest cash amount that must be
reported to the Internal Revenue
Service.
The trial is scheduled to resume
Thursday with more testimony from
Williams.
SEC insider-trading dispute
settled for over $1 million
Associated Press
DALLAS — Former Deputy De
fense Secretary Paul Thayer, Dallas
stockbroker Billy Bob Harris and a
banker agreed Tuesday to pay more
than $1 million to settle their in
sider-trading civil case with the Secu
rities and Exchange Commission.
Under the agreement, Thayer,
former chairman and chief exec
utive officer of Dallas-based LTV
Corp., will pay the government
$555,000, Harris will pay $275,000
and Texas banker Gayle L. Schroder
will pay $ 17(5,383.
Schroder was accused by the gov
ernment of receiving insider infor
mation and also chaired banks that
loaned Thayer money to buy securi
ties.
Government prosecutors con
tended that Thayer, while he
headed LTV Corp. and was a board
member of two other companies,
gave confidential corporate takeover
information to Harris.
Thayer and Harris acknowledged
giving false testimony to the SEC
about their participation in “insider
trading” between 1981 and 1983.
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