{"id":19247,"date":"2019-11-19T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=19247"},"modified":"2019-11-19T06:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:55:51","slug":"youre-going-down-in-flames-you-tax-fattened-hyena-60-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=19247","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re going down in flames, you tax-fattened hyena! (#60 in a series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Tyler, the mayor of Muncie, Indiana, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2019\/11\/18\/mayor-dennis-tyler-arrested-taken-into-fbi-custody\/4228225002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested by the FBI yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2019\/11\/18\/mayor-dennis-tyler-arrested-taken-into-fbi-custody\/4228225002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler is charged with theft of government funds, according to a federal criminal indictment that was unsealed Monday. He is accused of accepting a $5,000 cash payment after allegedly steering &#8220;lucrative&#8221; excavation work to a local contractor.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2019\/11\/18\/mayor-dennis-tyler-arrested-taken-into-fbi-custody\/4228225002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">With his arrest, Tyler joins at least six other Muncie city officials or business leaders taken into custody in connection to a corruption probe launched in 2016 by federal authorities related to bid-rigging, fraud, money laundering and other organized crime.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2019\/11\/18\/mayor-dennis-tyler-arrested-taken-into-fbi-custody\/4228225002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He is also the fourth person to be arrested in connection to the investigation so far this year.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The linked article goes on to detail the long sordid history of the Muncie corruption scandal, and is worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip on this to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence<\/a>, who also did the legwork so I didn&#8217;t have to. Yes, Mayor Tyler (a Democrat) is also a member of Crooked Mayors Against Legal Gun Owners!<\/p>\n<p>Is anybody keeping a count of crooked mayors against guns?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Tyler, the mayor of Muncie, Indiana, was arrested by the FBI yesterday. Tyler is charged with theft of government funds, according to a federal criminal indictment that was unsealed Monday. He is accused of accepting a $5,000 cash payment after allegedly steering &#8220;lucrative&#8221; excavation work to a local contractor. &#8230; With his arrest, Tyler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-law","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19248,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247\/revisions\/19248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}