Sylvester Turner, Your ethics are showing! (Updated)

Representative Sylvester Turner has been a busy little beaver. He has managed to amass enough campaign finance violations in the last two years to fill a 37 page ethics complaint, along with167 pages of campaign finance reports to back up the complaint. Since the complaint runs 37 pages I obviously cannot do all of his violations justice but I will hit some highlights for you.

• $220,905.33 (cumulative errors) is missing and unaccounted for out of his campaign funds, and also did not report any interest accrual on the account as well. This is fraud and perjury.
  
• Accepted $13,500 in direct contributions from corporate entities which is illegal. $500 of which was from Zachry Construction, the prime contractor for the Trans-Texas Corridor construction and a major contractor to TXDoT. Knowingly accepting Corporate donations is a third degree felony. He did this a total of 16 times in the last two years, listed the corporations on the forms, and then signed them, so he will have a hard time claiming he did not know. Maybe he didn't read them, but he SHOULD have read them. He signed the form which means he is accepting responsibility for what is in them.
  
• Made six payments to Ford Motor Credit in the amount of $736.46 for what appears to be his personal vehicle. Amounting to $4418.76. This is personal enrichment from campaign funds and he would be civilly liable for the amount, even if it's a lease with residual value to the lessor.
• Made a total of 141 payments to himself and others from the fund without disclosing the names of payees, dates, amounts, or purposes of the payments.
  

Now mind you, this covers just TWO YEARS worth of violations.

This is the man that has thrown his hat in the ring for Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. Instead of elevating him to the Speaker's position, the DA needs to prosecute him, the courts need to convict him, and the house needs to impeach him. The law should apply equally.

UPDATE:
It would appear that this is getting murkier and murkier. In this page of Turner's campaign reports, you'll note a $25,000 payment on 8-17-2007 to Jack Terence (Ted Hirtz Atty. of record). Under the purpose of the payments you will see listed "cause number 2004-06369" And another entry on 1-9-2008, and two more entries to Jack Terrence for the same amount on 10-1-2007 with the purpose marked as "Fees", same on 12-06-2006 for the same amount. Now, you may ask yourself who Jack Terrence is, I know I did. Well here is what I learned. It would seem that Jack Terrence ran for Mayor of Houston against Sylvester Turner. Both lost, but Terrence filed a lawsuit (cause number 2004-06369) against Turner for a number of infractions of campaign finance laws in 2004. The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Now we see two payments of $25,000 each to Terrence and two more to the Terrence's Attorney. It would appear that Turner is using his campaign funds to pay off lawsuits and this $100,000 is nothing more than hush money. As I understand election law, it is illegal to pay lawsuit settlements out of campaign funds.