Lobbyist found shot to death in burned home spoke of fear

[Judi Lynn]

Nov. 22, 2003, 2:57AM

Lobbyist found shot to death in burned home spoke of fear
By PEGGY O'HARE
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

On his last night, influential City Hall lobbyist Ross Allyn attended a political fund-raiser and had a late dinner with a friend, during which he confided fears that his phones were tapped. When they parted, the friend said, all seemed well.

Within hours, Allyn was found dead inside his home in the 900 block of Worthshire after a suspicious fire swept through it, Houston homicide investigators said.

An autopsy Friday revealed he was killed by a gunshot to the neck, the Harris County medical examiner's office said. No weapons were found in the home. The body was charred beyond recognition, so Allyn was officially identified Friday night through dental records, a medical examiner's office spokesman said.

Allyn's friends had prepared themselves for the worst because no one had seen or been able to reach him. (snip/...)

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2241504


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Hope a Houston D.U.'er might help us with more info. on this guy.
Thank you.

[whirlygigspin]

1. A lot of that going on in Texas lately

ho hum

[greyl]

2. He's been accused of arranging bribes in 98

and acquited
snip>Defense attorneys hammered the credibility of Molineiro, a career informant who has a checkered legal past of his own. Molineiro had convictions for robbery, fraud and embezzlement in Chile and Paraguay and several other outstanding warrants for his arrest in those countries.

The defense accused federal authorities of targeting minority politicians, because all five defendants are black or Hispanic. Hittner acquitted the only white non-Hispanic defendant, lobbyist Ross Allyn, during the first trial.<snip
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/121598/tex_LD0653.001.shtml


http://www.corpuschristi.bbb.org/texas/tex2492.html
http://www.coastalbendcareers.com/texas/tex2548.html


-and there was also this in 99:

snip>"Two players in the continuing downtown convention center hotel soap opera have settled their legal battle, unfortunately aborting what promised to be a juicy trial full of allegation, innuendo and revealing confidential documents. Lobbyist and former Hotel Six defendant Ross Allyn and hotel developer Wayne Duddlesten reached a confidential agreement last week. They dropped their suits and counterclaims arising from Allyn's claim that Duddlesten owed him a lobbying fee of $200,000 to $800,000.
Allyn pronounced himself "very pleased with the settlement." Federal Judge David Hittner acquitted Allyn last year of bribery and conspiracy charges, so he now walks away from Hotel Six with an unspecified chunk of change. "It resolves all the past issues, and now I'm moving forward," the lobbyist declared."<snip
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1999-04-15/columns.html


*I'm not from Texas. ;)

[teryang]

3. What an odd report

It was arson but it wasn't. The fire was accidental but he died of a gunshot to his neck. He was afraid his phones were bugged but he didn't tell his friends of troubles. A friend says he "may have died violently."

Maybe the 178 million dollar contract award had something to do with it. perhaps someone is pissed about that.

I was in Houston a couple of weeks ago. There seemed to be a lot of construction going on in the airport area. The gulf coast to the east of the city had a very strange appearance from the air. I'd guess it was an environmental diaster.

[izzie]

4. Is this like Alaska?

When I first moved to Alaska they had a lot of people killing them selfs by shooting them selfs in the back.I found that interesting as in NE we had not figured out how to do that.

[Vitruvius]

5. When there's big money & big oil, there's a lot of "Texas suicides" --

e.g. "self-inflicted" gunshot wounds in the back.

[schultzee]

8. I can't even stand to fly over Texas; its become the worse

state in the USA because of Bu$h.

[Bozola]

6. gunshot to the neck....

is a favorite of snipers.

[kysrsoze]

11. Actually, it's a favorite of organized crime. They typically use...

a small caliber .22 bullet in the back of the neck. Since it's small, it's not powerful enough to exit the other side of the skull, so it ricochets inside the head, effectively scrambling the victim's brain, most assuredly killing that person.

[Bozola]

12. ...and the Nazis, too.

It'll depend on the calibre.

[Barrett808]

7. Recall that the Harris County ME did the autopsy on Enron's Cliff Baxter

Dr. Joye Carter and the Harris County ME office have a very checkered past.

See details at the Bush/Enron Chronology:
http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/unravel/Public/Chronology/Bush_Enron_Chronology_rev_0.18_10_Aug_2002.html

[DBoon]

9. Just someone exercising their second amendment rights

No big deal.

[Judi Lynn]

10. You know, I think it may have been someone who knew he had to move

in a PREEMPTIVE way. If they didn't kill him then, they might have had to see him climbing through their windows sometime. What if there was the chance he could pass top secret lobbying secrets to China?

That's the ticket. Preemptive is the wave of the future!