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Law-and-Order Former Texas Attorney General Lands in Federal Prison
Loaded on June 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2004, page 8
Law-and-Order Former Texas Attorney General Lands in Federal Prison
by Matthew T. Clarke
Dan Morales, the former Texas at
torney general who ran on a law-and-order platform, was sentenced on October 31, 2003, to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud and filing a false income ...
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