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.

The story of how fiscal excesses ruined Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez’s savings and loan -- the debut business venture of a man who was running for governor on his business acumen. This article revealed a formerly confidential $1 million settlement paid by Sanchez to settle regulators’ claims against the failed thrift. The report relied on thousands of pages of bank exams and other sensitive documents wheedled out of federal agencies, withheld from earlier FOIA requestors. Back to Home Page.

The Dallas Morning News • 16th December 2001

Clip 9: For $1 million, Sanchez settled years of scrutiny / FDIC deal in 1994 concerned a proposed lawsuit over failed S&L

By PETE SLOVERAUSTIN -- Democratic candidate for governor Tony Sanchez - whose pitch to voters leans heavily on his business record - paid the government $1 million to settle complaints of risky and...