Pete Slover

Pete Slover worked for two decades as a Texas journalist, including 17 years at The Dallas Morning News, producing high-impact stories that won  awards, changed public policy and got people arrested. In 2006, he left the news business to apply his reporting acumen to the practice of law, where he has used his writing, investigative and management skills to the betterment of his clients, employers and the public.
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We broke the news of audacious and brazen corruption in the Dallas School District: in exchange for steering business to a vendor, the district's technology chief had been given -- among other lavish gifts -- exclusive use of and the right to name a 59-foot, $789,000 yacht, with a full-time captain. Our initial source had contacted the FBI and been ignored before reaching out to the newspaper. Eventually, the FBI, a DOJ Antitrust task force and the U.S. Department of Education, joined the hunt `and -- FBI agents confided -- tacked our stories to their bulletin board as a roadmap to indictments. Ultimately, a vendor and the technology chief were convicted and sentenced to federal prison for 10 years. The feds froze E-rate computer funding to the district, based on our report. And, two non-indicted top administrators at the district were forced to resign, based on the facts we revealed.  Back to home page.