A top Texas treasury official has been charged with stealing funds from a federal credit
union to pay off his dominatrix.
The treasurer admitted to authorities that he began wiring payments to the dominatrix
after she threatened to tell his wife about their submissive affair.
His hopes were that the payments would keep the relationship a secret, but instead it
has major blow-up in a very, very major public scandal.
Joining me to talk about that is Mollye Barrows, legal journalist for Trial Lawyer Magazine.
You know why this is a story?
It's a story because we're seeing it constantly now.
You're right.
It's a story because I'm wondering, does it all flow from the top?
I know.
Does he too have Cohen as an attorney?
Yeah, and who knows?
But what is the story behind these charges?
And really, we are seeing this almost every week, some interesting ...
Somebody's in trouble for making mistakes along the same lines, aren't they?
Over and over again, and this guy is no different.
56-year-old Gregory Lueb, he's second in command of the Harris County Treasurer's Office.
Basically, he had access to like $3 billion worth of county employees' money, but that's
not what he was playing with here, or is accused of playing with.
He's accused of stealing, basically opening up two credit card lines, or accessing two
credit card lines, two accounts through the local credit union, borrowing, taking advance
line of credit, using another account to pay those off, and then it would open up more
line of credit.
So he was supposedly using this to pay off credit card debt, and also to pay off this
dominatrix, Mistress Cindy, who he met on a sadomasochistic online chat room, as you
will, and so he said she was just demanding this money and, by golly, sometimes it's better
just to just say I stole, you know?
Right.
There's another part of the story that I think is an interesting part of the story and that
is the way that it's not just local government, it is government in general where we have
this pecking order.
Okay, so Billy Bob stays there long enough so we're going to make Billy Bob in charge
of something big.
Yes, you're right.
This story has that written all over it because Billy Bob, here, kind of comes up through
the system, he does a lot of political favors, and it's almost kind of a third-world attitude
about who we put there.
Is he even competent to do the job, or capable?
Yeah.
We see it in stories all over, and that's always part of a story like this, and that
is that Billy Bob, he's just come through the system.
He's stayed there long enough, he's developed friends there long enough, and now he's in
charge of all this money.
Harris County's DA says there's no doubt that he stole from the county, but his former boss
says, "Well, I don't ..." And this is what I'm talking about.
Yes.
His former boss says, "I don't see any signs of embezzlement."
What's your take on it?
Yes.
Well, like he said, he had access to all this county money, and he wasn't necessarily stealing
from Peter to pay Paul within these particular accounts, but he still had access to these
two accounts at this credit union and that was county money, so even though technically
there was no particular taxpayer or citizen that you could point to and say that he embezzled
from them, he did open these lines of credit, and the money that was used to play this shell
game, or check-kiting as they call it, was county employee money.
So that's essentially why they're not really looking into this blackmail angle of him saying,
"Mistress Cindy made me do it," or "I did it because she was threatening to tell my
wife."
They're saying, "Well, whether or not Mistress Cindy even exists is a moot point because
we have proof that you're stealing, and we know that you went through this credit union
and that's county money."
His boss can defend him all he wants and technically say it's not embezzlement, but he's a thief,
a admitted thief.
He does admit that he took this money, he just says he did it because he was worried
that his wife would know because Mistress Cindy was going to tell.
Any charge, no charges against the dominatrix-
They don't even know if she's real, and they're not even worried about finding out.
Yeah.
My call is there's no charges.
Mollye Barrows, thank you for joining me today.
Thanks, Pap.
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