Talk:Billie Sol Estes

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Billie Sol Estes is a convicted swindler who did great damage to many banks and individual investors (not to mention US taxpayers) during the early sixties. He always had a flair for publicity and self-promotion, and did attempt to purchase political influence through campaign contributions to LBJ but there is zero evidence of bribery or that LBJ was involved in any conspiracy to murder witnesses in the Estes trial. I've rewritten the article (and did some additional research) to place its focus on the documented record. Wyss 83.115.7.118 01:47, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Merge "Billy" Sol Estes

Yep. (Billie is the correct spelling) However, some of the information in the Billy version is both incorrect and unencyclopedic, I'll fix that. Wyss 14:28, 28 July 2005 (UTC)