The Dallas data loss report dropped late Thursday in a quiet press release. The report aims to answer questions about the 20TB+ loss of data that is halting prosecutions of murder suspects and interupting city functions.
A press release noted a review and analysis conducted into the mass data loss first discovered by the City in April 2021, the City of Dallas IT Department Thursday provided City Manager TC Broadnax a report giving further details around the events leading to the data loss, the efforts to recover data, and making recommendations for changes to reduce the risk of potential future data loss.
Broadnax noted in a statement, “The City understands the seriousness and potential impacts of this data loss and we are committed to improving how we manage our data to ensure its security and integrity,” said City Manager TC Broadnax. “In this report, our IT Department provides a path forward with a series of direct and actionable recommendations to improve our management of data and guard against any future data loss.”
The statement continues that the report confirms that the City lost 20.9 terabytes (TB) of data, totaling 8.26 million individual files in two events during the month of March 2021. The report cites actions taken by a City IT employee as the cause of the archive deletions and examines other factors and conditions contributing to the events. The data loss impacted archive files of the Dallas Police Department (DPD) and consisted of archived images, videos, audio files, case notes and other administrative documents gathered by the Department. Additionally, it delineates thorough reviews conducted of other backup and archive processes and confirms that other City systems were unaffected by these events.
Data Loss Report Out, But No Answers
The report does not address employee disciplinary actions, nor does it describe the details of any investigatory actions completed or underway related to the data loss. Multiple sources confirm an investigation by the Dallas Field Office of the FBI.
Jennifer Lynne Faith, the Oak Cliff woman whose boyfriend allegedly shot her husband to death, has been charged with orchestrating the murder, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah announced today.
Ms. Faith, 49, was charged Tuesday via superseding indictment with use of interstate commerce in the commission of murder-for-hire. The new charge carries a potential death penalty. She was previously charged with obstruction of justice, to which she entered a plea of not guilty.
Ms. Faith’s boyfriend, Darrin Ruben Lopez, 49, allegedly gunned down her husband, American Airlines technology director Jamie Faith, on October 9, 2020 at his Oak Cliff home.
Mr. Lopez was previously charged by the state with murder and by the feds with a gun crime, to which he also entered a plea of not guilty.
Court documents unsealed today are damning for Ms. Faith showing she used two phony email accounts to correspond with Mr. Lopez, assuming the identities of her own husband and one of her friends in order to falsely convince Mr. Lopez that her husband was physically and sexually abusing her.
“Ms. Faith’s alleged murder-for-hire scheme was depraved and calculated. She preyed on her boyfriend’s protective instinct and his pocketbook in order to convince him to execute her husband,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
“Jamie Faith’s brutal murder was a tragedy. His death has been a double blow to his family and friends, who had just begun to absorb the news of his murder when they were confronted with evidence of his wife’s alleged involvement. We are committed to getting justice for Jamie – and to holding both Ms. Faith and Mr. Lopez accountable for their alleged crimes.”
“Although the indictment of Ms. Faith is a win for law enforcement, I can’t help but think of the pain associated with so many others in this investigation. ATF is grateful to the Dallas Police Department for their dogged efforts in bringing this case to justice. ATF will not waver in its fight against violent crime in North Texas and beyond,” stated ATF Dallas Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey C. Boshek II.
According to the superseding indictment, Ms. Faith allegedly created the fake Gmail account in her husband’s name on April 9, 2020. Posing as Mr. Faith, Ms. Faith emailed Mr. Lopez multiple times during the spring and summer of 2020, taunting Mr. Lopez with details of extreme physical and sexual abuse that had never actually occurred. (Investigators have found absolutely no evidence of domestic or sexual violence by Jamie Faith.) Ms. Faith repeatedly attached fake photos of injuries as bogus proof of the abuse.
“I am telling you to stay away from my family,” she wrote in an email to Mr. Lopez on April 10 while posing as Mr. Faith.
“Enjoy knowing you can’t do a [expletive] thing about it,” she wrote in another email to Mr. Lopez on May 9, attaching close-up photos of purported injuries.
Ms. Faith allegedly created the fake Gmail account in her friend’s name on May 13. Posing as that friend, Ms. Faith sent multiple emails to Mr. Lopez’s personal email account falsely claiming that Mr. Faith was physically and sexually abusing her. Ms. Faith downloaded stock images of injuries from the internet and attached those images to her emails.
“Jamie slapped Jen … then he sent the pic of him choking her,” she wrote in an email to Mr. Lopez on May 13 while posing as her friend. “I am asking if you are willing to get involved and help Jen get out of this situation.”
“Jamie is abusing Jen today,” she wrote in another email to Mr. Lopez. “Any ideas how we can help her?”
“I know I won’t feel better about her situation until she is out of the house away from him or she lets me put a bullet in Jamie’s head,” Mr. Lopez replied by email on May 20.
“I am also very concerned and if it were up to me, I would tell you to go for it with your idea — lol; I’ll give you an alibi,” Ms. Faith responded, still posing as her friend.
“Darrin, I talked to Jenn – he’s burning her, among other things,” she continued in another email sent to Mr. Lopez on July 26.
On Oct. 8, Mr. Lopez allegedly drove from his home in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee, to the Faiths’ home in Dallas, where he laid in wait until the early morning hours of Oct. 9. When Mr. and Ms. Faith emerged from their home to walk the family dog, Mr. Lopez allegedly approached Mr. Faith from behind and shot him seven times – three times in the head, three times in the torso, and one time in the groin – before fleeing the scene in his black Nissan Titan pickup truck with a distinctive “T” decal on the back window.
In the days following the murder, the pair exchanged multiple text messages about removing the decal from Mr. Lopez’s truck – messages they later attempted to delete.
On October 10, an associate of Ms. Faith created a GoFundMe account to raise money for the deceased’s family. Ms. Faith allegedly withdrew approximately $58,000 from the fund, which she used to pay for purchases made on two credit cards she gave to Mr. Lopez. She also used the credit cards to pay for expenses for Mr. Lopez and his family, purchase airline tickets for Mr. Lopez and his daughters, and pay FedEx to ship Mr. Lopez a large screen television.
On November 11, Ms. Faith initiated a life insurance claim seeking approximately $629,000 in death benefits from Met Life. She repeatedly updated Mr. Lopez as to the status of the claim:
“Ok, so life insurance. They aren’t processing the claim yet because when they spoke to Det Walton in November, he told them I couldn’t be ruled out as a suspect,” she texted Mr. Lopez (as herself) on December 29.
“Oh no,” Mr. Lopez texted back.
On January 10, 2021, law enforcement agents asked Ms. Faith to come in for an interview. She immediately texted Mr. Lopez in Tennessee:
“Detective called. He wants me in for an interview tomorrow. He said he wants to go over the investigation and go through some things to start moving things forward. I’m a ball of nerves now,” she wrote.
“You don’t need to be,” Mr. Lopez responded. “Just keep saying what you have been … you will be fine.”
“If asked about you, you are an old friend going through a divorce,” Ms. Faith replied. “Don’t text me Monday, I am going to factory reset my phone on Sunday night after deleting texts. Just thinking in case they pulled phone records and ask.”
On January 11, Mr. Lopez was arrested in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee. Law enforcement agents located the .45 caliber handgun used to kill Jamie Faith inside a satchel in Mr. Lopez’s residence. Jamie Faith’s blood was recovered on the firearm.
The following week, Jennifer Lynne Faith allegedly transferred a total of $118,000 from her checking account into an account belonging to a third party. A few days later, she asked another individual to transmit a message to Mr. Lopez:
“I’ve just needed to be cautious because every communication is being monitored,” she said. “Please tell him ASAP that I will always be his.”
“Please stay strong for US,” Mr. Lopez, who was in custody, responded via the individual. “Your knight always.”
Indictments are merely allegations of criminal conduct, not evidence. Like all defendants, both Ms. Faith and Mr. Lopez are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
If convicted, Jennifer Lynne Faith faces up to life in federal prison, and could be subject to the death penalty. Mr. Lopez faces up to ten years in federal prison on the firearm charge and up to life in a state penitentiary on the Dallas County murder charge.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives’ Dallas Field Division and the Dallas Police Department’s Homicide Unit conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office, Homeland Security Investigations, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. NDTX Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Calvert, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Briggs and Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian McKay are prosecuting the case.
Jennifer Lynne Faith Played Victim Widow For Cameras
Jennifer Lynne Faith made a desperate plea to find her husband’s killer a year ago, but is now accused of orchestrating the crime with the help of her boyfriend.
Jennifer Lynne Faith said last year that she was “not supposed to be widowed at 48.” She urged the killer to come forward saying, “I just hope that at some point, maybe this person can recognise the gravity of what they’ve done and [can] feel some sort of guilt.”
The same month, the US Attorney’s Office was investigating neo-Nazis painting swastikas in Dallas.
An apartment explosion injures 8 due to a problem with the natural gas into the complex per local officials.
On Wednesday, September 29th, at 10:21 a.m., Dallas Fire Rescue responded to a 9-1-1 call for a Natural Gas Leak/Odor, at an apartment complex. The apartments are located at 5726 Highland Hills Road, in South Dallas.
Firefighters arrived at an apartment building near the gate entrance. At some point while investigating, an explosion occurred, causing a partial collapse of the two-story apartment building, injuring four firefighters, and four civilians. All individuals were taken to local hospitals for evaluation of a variety of injuries.
Three of the firefighters are in critical but stable condition, while the fourth firefighter was treated and discharged from Parkland Hospital. All four civilians are listed as stable and are being treated for their injuries as well.
There were a total of ten units in the building where the explosion occurred. All residents of that building have been located and are safe.
Natural gas was shut off to the complex as the investigation moves forward leaving three hundred residents displaced. Currently, the department is working alongside the City’s Office of Emergency Management, the American Red Cross and apartment management to offer accommodations for those impacted.
All buildings in the complex will undergo a thorough investigation and inspection process to allow residents’ safe return.
Apartment Explosion Injures 8 Including Four Firefighters
One source said this may elevate to a criminal investigation given circumstances located during the aftermath making it similar to the fire on 400 N. Peak in Dallas after July 4.
Contractors and staff of SBA extorting minority applicants per phone calls and screen shots. Staff members of Region 6 have refused multiple requests for comment, but Ahmad Goree is attending a 24 Hour Dallas webinar on funding minority nightime business this evening.
In one partial screenshot, a staff member releases information to a third party “finder.” The finder then offers to broker the application with SBA for fees of ten percent to the SBA staff member and five percent to the finder.
Goree and other staff have refused multiple requests for comment as to why staff members are heard asking for kickbacks. They have also not responded to multiple requests for comment on process or how information is contained.
These issues comes just days after Dallas Fed Chairman Robert Kaplan announced his sudden resignation after it became clear he was trading stocks using his personal accounts while the Fed was buying the same securities.
SBA Extorting Minority Applicants – Link To June Suicide?
In June, we reported Dallas police had recovered the body of the spouse of an applicant who had committed suicide after questionable behavior by contractor staff at Brillient Corporation.
Dallas FED President Robert Kaplan announced his sudden retirement Monday citing distractions from what one insider called insider trading.
Kaplan’s early retirement comes shortly after an announcement by Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren. He noted health concerns in his resignation and not issues over his stock choices.
“The Federal Reserve is approaching a critical point in our economic recovery as it deliberates the future path of monetary policy. Unfortunately, the recent focus on my financial disclosure risks becoming a distraction to the Federal Reserve’s execution of that vital work,” Kaplan said in a statement.
Dallas FED President
Kaplan has executed several large stock trades in household names such as Amazon, Apple, and Delta Air Lines. This occurred at the same time the Fed was pouring trillions of dollars into asset purchases aimed at helping the markets function. Additionally, the Fed has bought corporate bonds from mega-cap companies like Apple enriching his personal portfolio at the same time.
Congress is holding oversight hearings starting today over the Fed’s response to COVID19, but it is unclear a criminal investigation will follow.
In August, William Mundinger, formerly of Goldman Sachs took over the city’s Department of Sustainable Development and Construction, prompting questions of insider control over the City of Dallas.
A group of parents are pushing COVID19 protests at Dealey Montessori Academy just weeks after its sister school in South Dallas had an explosion in cases at Harry Stone Montessori Academy.
One Dealey parent said they were not sure if this was “a parent committing child abuse by intentionally sending a child to school maskless” or if it was “domestic terroism intentionally spreading germs in a communal environment.”
The parent who did not want to be named went on, “The parents are clearly more interested in making a political statement than they are in being in an environment of mutual contributions, respect, and learning.”
COVID19 Protests
Four students in the upper elementary program have chosen to attend school without masks and have been accomodated in another classroom together. On Friday, September 17, the four decided to attempt to enter other classrooms disrupting the school’s day.
It is unclear if they were subject to any discipline, but Dallas ISD magnets frequently have stringent requirements and regularly disrupting class can be a reason to remove the child from a magnet program.
We will update this topic when more information becomes available or DISD representatives return inquires.
Cafeteria changes are coming to Dallas Independent School District lunch rooms due to supply chain problems with plastic flatware. The change comes one day after the district announced a $50 vaccination incentive for students age twelve or older.
Dallas ISD announced school cafeterias will be offering finger foods two days a week – on Tuesdays and Thursdays – because flatware is in such limited supply.
“A number of suppliers told us they have product, but it’s stuck in a port,” said Michael Rosenberger, the executive director of food and child nutrition services for the district.
The modified menu means instead of salad, cafeterias may serve veggie sticks. Instead of spaghetti, students may enjoy items like burgers, baked fries, or pizza, among other things.
Cafeteria Changes Include Menu Direction
Parents can still view Dallas ISD menu options via the MealViewer website which you can find here.
Coronavirus is having a long lasting impact on local economies and supply chains around the world. It is not clear if local schools may change to a North American based provider of the plasticware in the future.
DISD is believed to be the first district in Texas to offer students ages 12 and up cash incentives for voluntarily getting vaccinated. The district said they will give fully vaccinated students a $50 gift card that can be used the same as cash.
Teachers are eligible for a larger incentive of $500.
As of September 13, Dallas Independent School District reported 1,546 confirmed cases of COVID19 among students and 650 additional cases in staff.
The district is enforcing a mask mandate despite being forbidden by the governor and his executive order banning such mitigation efforts.
Dallas schools have more than 140,000 students and an infection rate of just over one percent.
Other large districts like Arlington and Frisco have less than half the student population of the Dallas ISD and are reporting hundreds of more infections among students leading to higher infection rates – both Arlington and Frisco are three times as much as Dallas. Neither Arlington or Frisco has a mask mandate.
Cash For Vaccinations Details
The announcement of the student vaccination incentive comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dallas County Health officials have raised the COVID19 alert to level red and reported that hospitalizations are rising at the fastest rate since the pandemic began, among all age groups, including children.
Participation in the student vaccination incentive is entirely voluntary and based on the personal preferences of students and their families. The information provided will help the district determine how many students who are eligible have been fully vaccinated and facilitate the contact tracing and quarantine processes, which are different depending on vaccination status.
Dallas crime up and DPD overtime is down per a Dallas City Council vote earlier which removed additional funds from the Dallas City budget.
City Council is putting the finishing touches on next year’s budget which will be finalized on September 22, 2021.
The biggest fireworks were when Dallas Police Department’s overtime budget was cut by $10M and moved into city reserves awaiting results of an audit. The vote was 8-7 in favor of defunding the department and ignores recent failures of officer availability to respond to three children assaulted last week.
Crime Up And DPD Overtime Down – Again
Citizens can still contact their member of City Council prior to the final vote on September 22, 2021.
We say shocked tongue in cheek like Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca did when he left the roulette table only to find gambling happening at Rick’s Cafe.
The numbers mirror our previous reporting and confirm what is now five parents’ complaints that the school does not do enough to keep surfaces clean or enforce mask requirements – particularly on younger children.
Not Really Shocking Harry Stone COVID19 Numbers
As we previously reported, COVID19 cases jumped by a factor of almost ten overnight after we reported on data we were able to collect from paents and sources in both Dallas Independent School District and the Dallas County Health Department.
It remains unclear why school officials chose to try to hide hard data on the pandemic within the school walls, but this continues previous behavior of hiding information about the assault of a teacher by a student and improper cash handling of student account fees.
