Commercial Property Tax Reduction Breeds Drama & Lawsuit

Picture this:

• You’re a district court judge
• You get hired by a petrochemical company & leave the bench
• Your agreement with the pretorchmical company is that you’ll help reduce its property tax burden
• For that work you get a salary of $50,000/month &  33 1/3% of the property tax savings the petrochemical company gets
• Then you discover that your boss at the petrochemical company likes to pad the books
• You refuse to agree to the book padding scheme and your boss stops paying you
• You’re out contractual pay of $50,000/month & $5 million contingency fee for the property tax savings.
• You sue to recoup lost wages and earnings
• Then it comes to light your time on the bench was all shiny

Lots of drama in Beaumont. SE Texas Record