What did Sylvester Turner really do for the money?
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In 2013, the managing partner of the tax collection firm Linebarger, Goggan, Blair and Sampson signed a government document claiming the law firm of Barnes and Turner was one of several minority firms getting a piece of a lucrative $8 million HISD contract.
In 2014, an audit showed Linebarger had inflated reported payments to the Turner law firm to his. Sylvester Turner refused to comment when the Houston Chronicle asked him about it. The audit raised real questions about whether the minority community had been cheated out of their promised share of the Linebarger contract.
In May of 2015, records released by HISD show the Barnes and Turner law firm had been paid $370,000. Those records are available for review on dolcefino.com.
Sylvester Turner now is talking, and says all those reports by Linebarger are lies, okay.
If Linebarger lied about their dealings with the Barnes and Turner law firm, why is Sylvester Turner still cashing $10,000 payments every month?
If the HISD records are bogus, what minority firms are getting 25% of the Linebarger HISD contract? If the minority community is being cheated, why has Sylvester remained silent?
Sylvester Turner has benefited from government contracts while in the state legislature, plain and simple. Take Linebarger, a law firm that makes a living suing Houstonians who can’t pay their taxes. What exactly did Sylvester Turners law firm do for the money? Whose home did they help take?
“People are just sick and tired of these career politicians cashing in on public service,” says mayoral candidate Ben Hall. “I have promised Houstonians this nonsense will stop on day one if I am honored with the mayor’s office.”
That is why Ben Hall is once again tonight calling on Sylvester Turner to tell Houstonians what other government agencies have paid his law firm or his title company. What other government contracts does he benefits from?
Maybe it is just a coincidence that Sylvester Turner has made a great living off government contracts and taxpayers money. Maybe it’s not.
Stay tuned.
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