Perry Fined $1,500 by Ethics Commission
Gov. Rick Perry was fined $1,500 by the Texas Ethics Commission for failing to report rental income from a house in College Station, and for filing incomplete information regarding debts on the same property, in personal financial statements required by state law.
"This was an inadvertent error, and as soon as it was realized, the governor’s personal financial statement was amended to include those items," Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said in a statement. "The Commission has since assessed a fine, which has been paid."
Perry did not, as the law requires, report income in excess of $500 from ...
Comments (21)
Mark Paulson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That will teach a millionaire from crooked real estate deals to stop.
Oscar Garza via Texas Tribune on Facebook
once a CROOK always a CROOK
Felipe Gutierrez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We sent Martha Stewart to jail but be get's fined $1500? Wonder how much his hair cost? LOL
Ben Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A mere slap on the wrist. What a travesty. They all take care of each other.
Debbie Gregory via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Guess Perry isn't included in the elite
Debbie Gregory via Texas Tribune on Facebook
. . . the elite entitled to tax error like Obama cabineteers or czars or Dem of exempt status. Hmmm
namoyer
oh, tut, tut! bet Gov. Goodhair's knuckles are sore. Ethics Commission--isn't that an oxymoron here in TX? here's another TX govt. agency that might as well be closed down. no good comes from these idiots!
Ben Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Debbie, have proof of your accusations?
Nigel Richardson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That's a week's worth of AquaNet.
Dan Lewis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
1500? oh no 1500 from a guy like Perry is nothing. come on hit him harder. he just laugh at you
Michelle Bafik-Vehslage via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If they actually looked closer, oh my what they would find.... But he is Tx's Good ole boy. Could care less about education, health or the welfare of the general people of this state. If there is nothing in it for hyim, case closed.......
LuAnn Ferguson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He could NOT care less about education, the poor, etc.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Guess, like Tim Geitner, he'll blame" turbo- tax"?
Lonnie Goins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
OMG. now he'll plug his book even harder!
Nancy Baughn via Texas Tribune on Facebook
corrupt S.O.B.!!
Rudy Gonzales
Hey Perry, here...here....repeat after me, "I'm not a crook"
Kathy Kilmer Moak via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I...am...shocked.
Annette Bryant
He did not report $29,999. in 2009 and fined $1,500; that is like .15 cents to him. But I guess he, Tom Delay and all the other politicians and prosecutors are above the law. They do not learn one thing when crime pays like this. There should be a law that politicians be treated like every body else when it comes to the law. They should not be allowed to vote them selves pay raises when Texas needs jobs! Before he was nominated Texas was 11 billion in the red. After his election we find out we are 27 billion in the red - surely this was not hidden from us on purpose? How many lies are we going to take and keep electing him? his eyes remind me of the Christmas Grinch. The house he is renting for $10,000 a month is from one of his best friends (scratch my back and I'll scrathc yours-right?). Let Perry put a double wide on the mansion grounds and set an examlple for the public on how to tighten the belt. That is what Bll White said he would do.
Vote Bill White!
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Turbo- Tax strikes again??
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hey Debbie Gregory, your sleazy man got caught! And tyou blame Obama. What a joke you are!
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How pathetic you and your governor are!]\