Ruel Hamilton was convicted Tuesday of three of four counts of conspiracy and bribing two former Dallas City Council members, the late Carolyn Davis and Dwaine Caraway. Caraway is serving a nearly five-year prison sentence for accepting bribes and kickbacks.
A federal jury convicted Hamilton, the president of AmeriSouth Realty Group, of one count of conspiracy and two counts of bribery of an agent of a local government receiving federal funds.
Ruel Hamilton Case
From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Hamilton paid tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to Carolyn Davis, who was then serving as chair of the city’s Housing Committee.
Ms. Davis supported Hamilton’s Royal Crest housing project, voting to authorize a real estate development loan in a quid pro quo situation, despite the project not meeting the city’s housing priorities for multifamily units.
“The people of Dallas deserve true public servants, not those bought and paid for by the city’s elite. By using money to bend elected officials to his will, Mr. Hamilton betrayed the communities he purports to hold dear,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
He continued, “The U.S. Attorney’s Office will not allow a kickback culture to fester at City Hall. To anyone considering this sort of unscrupulous behavior: Think twice. Our prosecutors are tenacious, and we are determined to root out corruption wherever we find it.”
Dwaine Caraway’s conviction was also connected to the Dallas County Schools scandal. Carolyn Davis was killed in a DWI auto accident in 2019.
An Oak Cliff man is facing Sex Trafficking charges in Dallas after being arrested for selling a nineteen year old to a man in South Carolina for purposes of sex.
Alfonso Orozco Juarez, 35, and Robert Hubert, 66, were charged via criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Mr. Juarez was arrested at his home in Dallas and made his initial appearance in court in Dallas on Wednesday; Mr. Hubert was arrested at his home in Roebuck, SC, and made his initial appearance in court in Greenville, SC last week.
In a statement, US Attorney Erin Neely Cox said “This victim endured horrific abuse at the hands of these defendants. It’s unthinkable and frankly, difficult to learn that this type of thing is happening in our District.”
Cox continued: “I am grateful that our North Texas Human Trafficking Task Force was able to act swiftly and aggressively. The Northern District of Texas and its partners in the District of New Mexico are committed to ending the scourge of human trafficking, one brutal case at a time.”
In September 2019, Juarez advertised the woman as a sex slave for sale on a fetish website, authorities said. A user going by the name “The Darkest Lord” replied to him, offering $5,000, according to court records.
Authorities said they obtained text messages in which Juarez and that man — later identified as 66-year-old Robert Gene Hubert of Roebuck, S.C. — arranged the transaction.
According to court documents, Juarez said that homeless women were “willing to do anything” for good food and shelter. “My dream is to have a house full of service sex slaves and like a pet adoption I will find them good homes,” he allegedly wrote.
He referred to the woman as “the property” and said she was completely dependent on him, according to the documents.
“I will take the slave,” Hubert said, offering a $50 deposit, the complaint says.
Juarez took the woman to a gas station near his home and told her she would be going to South Carolina with a man and needed to “obey him,” according to the complaint. She said she saw Hubert, whom she described as a “biker dude” with tattoos and an eye patch, give Juarez $5,000 in cash.
The woman said Hubert put a metal collar around her neck once she was in his truck and told her he wanted to brand her buttocks with a logo, according to the complaint. There was another woman with Hubert, she told authorities, and when they got to Hubert’s home, she saw bruises, burn marks and cuts all over the woman’s body, as well as a brand on her hip.
Sex Trafficking Charges
Sex trafficking charges can sometimes be hard to prove. Juarez’s attorney, Ezekiel Tyson, said he wanted to see “what actual evidence they have of criminal activity by my client.” Sex-slave relationships can be “very consensual” and aren’t necessarily criminal or worthy of a sex trafficking charge, he said, adding that there are plenty of activities that don’t cross the line into criminality, such as having someone agree to clean your house in the nude.
Both Juarez and Hubert remain in custody and face up to life in prison if convicted. Hubert did not have an attorney listed in court records.
Multiple cases have come out of the Dallas US Attorney’s office related to sex crimes and sexual activity in recent months. They include a Dallas police officer implicated in child sexual explotation while on the job and a former US Attorney who had been based in Dallas implicated in amateur hotwife porn.
We need to update the Candina S Heath previous article. Ms. Heath was linked to Erin Neely Cox’s office webpage.
Ms. Heath was in the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. She is currently in the Washington DC offices of the Justice Department. The Public Information Officer for the Northern District of Texas did not respond with this information until late afternoon so this is our first opportunity to correct this information.
Update the Candina S Heath Story
We expect to provide more background on this story in the near future. We await a denial from Ms. Heath about her presence in the videos or the other allegations made by third parties.
A Dallas based Assistant US Attorney is implicated in an amateur hotwife porn allegation by Barrett Brown.
Brown says Candina S Heath was involved as a performer in the amateur hotwife porn titled Queen of Spades Hotwife Part 2.
Brown intimates that he is bringing ethics questions into the issue because of the implications for a US Attorney who prosecutes national security cases.
Heath has been involved in both national security and corporate hacking cases in the office of the US Attorney for North Texas. Brown states in another part of his post that the video is available via Amazon.
Amateur HotWife Porn – Only The Tip?
In addition to Barrett Brown’s allegations, a Twitter account alleges she likes to record sexual interactions without the consent of those involved.
In Texas, recording of this nature would be a State Jail Felony under state criminal code. It is unclear if Dallas or other police authorities have investigated this behavior, but it would appear to be another example of the local justice community acting poorly again and again.
Neither Ms. Heath, nor the US Attorney’s Office, has responded to requests for comment.
