Monday, January 26, 2026

Bribes, Bribes, Bribes

 Is there a culture of bribery in Jackson? 

 A federal grand jury indicted Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, Mayor Lumumba, and City Councilman Aaron Banks on public corruption charges in 2024. Former Councilwoman Angelique Lee and insurance mogul Marve Smith pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit bribery in 2024 as well. 

Owens filed a motion to dismiss with a supporting memorandum and 47 exhibits Monday in U.S. District Court. The Justice Department almost immediately asked U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III to seal the filing the same day, claiming it violated a protective order.

Judge Jordan granted the request and sealed the filings the next day but not before most of the local media downloaded the motion and the supporting exhibits. 

Posted below is an FBI report of information received from confidential informants.  Keep in mind the information is unverified and unconfirmed.  Tonarri Moore is probably one of the informants since he was a known informant for the Fibbers.  He is serving four years in federal prison for being a felon with a firearm.  Polo Edwards was another FBI informant although it is not known if he was the source for some of this information.  The point is take the report with a grain of salt as it includes testimony from people who themselves were up to no good and might have been trying to score points with the feds by any means possible. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Stay tuned. 
 

44 comments:

Anonymous said...

what is CHS?

Anonymous said...

Jackson is beyond saving

Anonymous said...

Surely someone investigated the bribe taken by the “female employee at the Hinds County Tax Assessor’s Office”

Anonymous said...

"Bribe" translates to Jackson in Somali. This is a little known fact.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure this is probably obvious but it's not ringing a bell with me, what does CHS stand for?

Anonymous said...

Jackson is such a FUN place to live...

Anonymous said...

Surprise Surprise!

Torrence Mayfield is currently at a United States Penitentary at Pine Knot Kentucky.

He plead guilty to a federal felony charge on November 20, 2024. He falsely certified he was not a straw buyer when in fact he was a straw buyer for a convicted felon.

Anonymous said...

Jackson !!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Good lord....Google CHS FBI.

Anonymous said...

I checked just now and didn't find a case to match that.

Maybe the clerks now a CHS instead of a convict?

Anonymous said...

Gosh!

If the feds worked like a hal fassed auditor they could have made an arrest or two in 2020 and held a big press conference and announced Jody and Chokwe were whistleblowers!

Anonymous said...

Gun shots and stabbings every night

Anonymous said...

Tax collector handles car tags. That means Eddie Fair has an employee taking bribes.

Anonymous said...

So the FBI had this reliable information, yet, the best they could do was charge Mayfield with one count of lending a hunting rifle to Moore after Mayfield said no on 8 recorded calls then finally relented on the 9th solicitation?

Anonymous said...

Why is everyone forgetting this all started with Harvey and club owner with that dumpy Convention Center. Refusing to pay bribes to Jackson leaders is why outlet mall went to Pearl. Beale Street developer also refused to pay $20k just to talk about Farish Street development.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what Owens's purpose was in filing all of this dirt into the public record, in support of a motion to dismiss based on entrapment.

Anonymous said...

What is an insurance mogul? I’ve known some very honest and prominent Insurance Agents and Underwriters but never have I met a mogul. Would that be considered the owner of a large insurance corporation?

Anonymous said...

That is indeed the question.

Anonymous said...

True story. I had recently met one of the named detectives several years ago, and happened to have their number. I came across an extremely potential grisly scene. When you hear that a decomposing human smells different than anything else, I now know what they are talking about. I called that homicide detective to report my find, and that detective then told me not to call them about it, to just call the police. I did, and eventually a patrol officer rolled by, never got out of their car, and kept rolling. I figured if the police weren’t concerned enough to care, I sure wasn’t gonna go poking around anymore. I guess the vultures eventually finished what they had started.

Anonymous said...

Bribery has a long, long history in Jackson, Hinds County and all the surrounding counties. The new guys don't have the "good ole boys" network to cover their asses and the feds didn't have the same sweet tooth for Jackson they have now. But that's no excuse for the stupidity and arrogance these fools display.

Anonymous said...

Harvey is the reason Southwest left years ago, so says the rumor mill. Something about payola.

Owens is hoping to influence the general public/jury pool. It only takes one vote to walk free.

Anonymous said...

About 25 years ago, a retired JPD detective told me that cops commonly ran local tags came up with nothing, because employees in that office were being bribed to sell tags off the books, but the cops were forbidden to investigate.

Anonymous said...

Jackson is a cliche at this point.

Anonymous said...

CHS = Confidential Human Source i.e., what you might think of as a Confidential Informant or 'CI' in local Pig-Latin

Anonymous said...

Jackson’s corruption started decades ago when then Mayor Kane Ditto brought in a police chief from Washington DC. You could be working on a Habitat for Humanity house, see a drug dealer on the corner dealing in broad daylight, call the Jackson Police to report it, then within minutes watch the drug dealer answer his phone, and leave the scene immediately.

And this was in the 1990’s, i.e. corruption in Jackson, MS is not anywhere close to being anything new (corruption is in the Democrat playbook, see Somalis in Mn). So, the big fat elephant in the room question is:

why did the Feds, DURING the BIDEN administration, while they were primarily focused on sending the FBI to the homes of conservatives due to Facebook posts, having the ATF raid the homes of people with no criminal record, etc., etc., etc., all of a sudden decide to punish Jody Owens and Antard Lumumba for corruption that’s been happening for decades in Jackson, MS, and continues to happen in Democrat controlled cities throughout this country???

Anonymous said...

There is a culture of bribery in Mississippi and has been for a very long time. Hint: it's how the politicians prosper.

Anonymous said...

No apparent effort ever made to investigate whether the car tag system has been perverted.

Has there been any effort to investigate the water billing E CODE fraud?

The fraud apparently persisted over many years and through a number of different billing systems.

Shake that tree and see what falls out?

Or nope out on that too?

Anonymous said...

The culture of bribes extends into state government. See MDHS and MDOC scandals (republican scandals).

Anonymous said...

You fell for it.

Anonymous said...

This is Your New America. Get used to it. Look at the bright side: at least we have free and fair elections.

Anonymous said...

7:34 Jackson's corruption did not begin with the Ditto administration. No way. It was business as usual decades before Ditto or Harvey Johnson, they just came under a different level of scrutiny. Like cameras and cell phones have revealed brutality that was always there, the media now reveals politicians who have always taken bribes. Actually they probably take LESS bribes now since most know they are being watched.

Anonymous said...

I know a guy whose first job out of USM was working at JPD. He left after a month because of the corruption and other BS, and that was around 1989 or 1990. He also told a story about two female officers who got into a cat fight while working 911 dispatch after finding out that they were both sleeping with the same officer.

Anonymous said...

This is how the entire world operates. Sino-watcheerz probably know that Emperor Xi just unpersoned his #1 man in the PLA for corruption.

The EU prosecuted a former model turned minister who was taking cash from the UAE.

This is why most people seek office. For the kickbacks!

Kingfish said...

Yeah, the general was taking bribes and selling us nuclear secrets. More likely was he said something Xi didn't want to hear once too often.

Anonymous said...

@9:55 you were either living under a rock or are too young to have a clue. The Jackson Police department was night and day different from pre-Ditto to post-Ditto. The JPD was a fine PD that we could be proud of prior to Ditto.

Anonymous said...

Local, state, fed, etc. Bribes, lobbyists, donors, etc. It's all the same thing. BRIBES.

Anonymous said...

Or some secret important military research project didn't work like it was supposed to. There's never no blame placed.

Kingfish said...

Until Robert Johnson came along

Anonymous said...

@10:44 you are correct. KF shows his ignorance again.

The PRC gives the PLAAN/PLA billions of yuan for some super sectet defense project. All of the generals steal the money and the results are either some tofu dreg copy of stolen tech or literal pkywood fakes.
This happens pnce too often and Xi simply cant tolerate his theft snd i competence any longer.
The man at the top loses his head but the cancer remains.
This is why every Chinese politician sends their family abroad to live.

Anonymous said...

Can you imagine actually WANTING to go to work at JPD?

Any person with half a brain or ethics would seek out law enforcement employment at one of the many other agencies in the metro area.

Anonymous said...

10:38 You're right about being night and day different. As for being proud, speak for yourself.

Anonymous said...

TA's office doesn't offer this service. Collector does.

Anonymous said...

Cindy Hyde Smith.

Anonymous said...

So where do you see Polo name any Federal paperwork ? You another one totally obsessed with that man


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