Whoa, Sylvester Turner's Top Aide Was Wearing A Wire For The FBI
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry show let's talk about Sylvester Turner's top aid |
| 0:04.8 | William Paul Thomas who now that he's pled guilty and details have come out |
| 0:10.0 | He wore a wire for more than a year after the feds came and said look we're taking you down you can cooperate with us |
| 0:19.9 | And one former state prosecutor says I'd be surprised if this is the last we hear of him. |
| 0:25.2 | They flew in some of the big boys on this one. |
| 0:27.9 | The hope is that they caught Sylvester Turner committing the crimes that so many people allege that he was committing. |
| 0:37.0 | This isn't the only person in this administration that has been caught on bribes and remember the whistleblower that came |
| 0:44.8 | forward and Sylvester's business partner who had the big affordable housing |
| 0:49.0 | deal and oh I didn't realize that because he wasn't in the affordable housing business and then there was |
| 0:53.9 | Pappas who he did wrong at the airport. So this is a story from KPRC TV recapping |
| 1:00.7 | the corruption that was going on between William Paul Thomas and |
| 1:06.0 | Sylvester Turner. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm doing good. How are you? |
| 1:08.8 | Did you ever receive an email for over half a million dollars. |
| 1:13.0 | KPRC2 investigates, first introduced you to William Paul Thomas back in February of 2020. |
| 1:18.7 | At the time, he was the director of Houston City Council Relations. You may recall this story. It was |
| 1:25.1 | about Thomas and that man right there, Andy Iken, receiving and entertaining a |
| 1:30.8 | five hundred thousand dollar email offer contingent upon |
| 1:35.2 | former Mayor Sylvester Turner helping close a private land deal involving a |
| 1:40.4 | local businessman his name Jason you the email when I saw it yesterday based on whether you presented the email was inappropriate |
| 1:49.7 | two years after those comments, in August of 2022, Mayor Sylvester Turner had the following |
| 1:59.6 | to say about the man who was right over his shoulder, his good friend and member of his |
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