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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/collin-county/2018/05/16/former-richardson-mayor-indicted-after-supporting-developer-exchange-money-gifts-sex

Former Richardson Mayor Laura Jordan and a land developer she married have been indicted on federal conspiracy charges, including bribery, the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Texas has announced. 

The seven-count indictment announced Wednesday accuses Jordan, 53, and Mark Jordan, 51, both of Plano, of honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bribery, and bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. 

Laura Jordan — at the time named Laura Maczka — was Richardson mayor from May 2013 through April 2015, and her now-husband was a land developer, the release states.  The indictment states that contrary to campaign promises, Laura Jordan voted in favor of zoning changes to make way for Mark Jordan's development and allow apartments to be built even though an "overwhelming number of citizens" opposed the plan. 

In exchange for her votes, the indictment states, Mark Jordan paid her over $18,000 in cash and $40,000 by check, paid for over $24,000 in renovations to her home, paid for luxury hotel stays and flight upgrades, provided "lucrative employment" with one of his companies and provided "intimate sexual contact." 

According to the indictment, neither disclosed their collaboration in the zoning changes and the benefits the former mayor received. 

In 2015, a three-week investigation concluded there was no evidence that Laura Jordan or the City Council at the time violated state law or city ethics rules when it approved a zoning change for Mark Jordan's controversial Palisades mixed-use project along Central Expressway.

That same year, a group of Richardson residents called for the former mayor's immediate resignation, saying that emails raised questions about her relationship with Mark Jordan and her vote on the development project. She denied there was a conflict of interest when the rezoning case was approved. 

Laura Jordan, who ran unopposed in the May 2015 election, said she would not take the oath of office and instead would focus on "my family, my health, and my professional career." At that time, she had recently taken a job with JP Partners/Sooner Management, the development company behind the Palisades project and where Mark Jordan worked as a managing partner.  

This case is being investigated by the FBI, the release states. 

If convicted, Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan each face up to 20 years in federal prison. 

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My date and I randomly had drinks and dinner w/ this couple and another couple about a month ago.  One of my best friends is a commercial real estate leasing agent and leases space for a couple/few of this dude's properties.  My date and I had plans to meet my friend and his wife at Social House, in Addison.  A couple of hours before our dinner, he called an asked if I'd mind if Laura and Mark joined us.  No clue to who they are/were, so whatever. 

All in all, fairly unremarkable and fairly fun evening but I did pick up a couple of things:

She's aggy so, this is what happens when folks w/ cheating in their veins marry.

They are annoyingly Christian-acting...asked for everyone to join hands at pray when dinner arrived....at the fucking Social House...while we were getting smashed.  I declined. 

They also played themselves off as this couple who had been together for years and have 8 kids together.  

They were supposedly celebrating b/c they'd just sold one of their properties for millions of dollars in profit.

He big-timed us all and picked up the check....so free night out. 

 

That's all I got. 

 

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On 5/17/2018 at 7:16 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

They are annoyingly Christian-acting...asked for everyone to join hands at pray when dinner arrived....at the fucking Social House...while we were getting smashed.  I declined. 

They were thankful to the god of backroom deals, sex and conspicuous consumption.

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