An FBI special agent alleges in a Sept. 27 criminal complaint that federal prisoner Phillip Monroe Ballard was willing to pay $100,000 in cash to have U.S. District Judge John McBryde of Fort Worth killed. Ballard is in prison awaiting trial for allegedly filing false tax returns, FBI agent Edward R. Quintana Jr. states in the complaint.
The government has charged Ballard with “solicitation to commit a crime of violence” but he has not been indicted, according to a document on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system.
