All Texas politics all the time from the San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle Ex-Dewhurst aide sentenced to 87 months in prison for campaign embezzlement Posted on February 27, 2015 | By David Saleh Rauf Print— AUSTIN — A longtime political adviser to David Dewhurst was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in federal prison for embezzling millions of dollars from the former lieutenant governor’s campaign accounts. Kenneth “Buddy” Barfield, an ex-Austin political consultant, plead guilty in October on charges of wire fraud, falsified tax returns and theft of campaign funds from a candidate for federal office, admitting to siphoning funds between 2008 and 2012 from two...
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