The partitions are lastly closing in on corrupt Harris County Decide Lena Hidalgo.
Texas Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton has joined the investigation into Lina Hidalgo’s $11 million no-bid contract.
Harris County District Lawyer Kim Ogg (D) transferred the case to Ken Paxton’s workplace so it will not “fall by the cracks” when she leaves workplace subsequent yr.
KHOU 11 stories:
Attorneys for the Texas Lawyer Basic’s Workplace may have six months to familiarize themselves with a case involving three former staffers of Harris County Decide Lena Hidalgo who’re accused of steering contracts to distributors. The schedule was set by Harris County Decide Hazel Jones.
Attorneys for Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton’s workplace advised Jones they wanted time to evaluate data within the case.
“We simply took the case and we have to catch up,” one lawyer stated.
Hidalgo’s workplace was embroiled in a bid-rigging scandal.
Three of Lina Hidalgo’s high staffers have been indicted in April 2022 after prosecutors expanded their investigation into an $11 million “vaccine outreach contract” awarded to a political confidant of the decide .
Whereas Hidalgo threatened jail and fines for violating COVID-19 laws, she secretly tried to award certainly one of her political cronies, Elevate Methods founder Felicity Pereyra, an $11 million USD “Vaccine Outreach” contract.
Hidalgo finally panicked and canceled an $11 million vaccine contract after questions emerged in regards to the contract being awarded to a one-man firm with no expertise.
Hidalgo Metropolis Chief of Workers Alex Triantaphyllis and Coverage Director Wallis Nader, together with co-defendant Aaron Dunn, have been charged with abuse of authority data and tampering with authorities paperwork associated to canceled vaccine outreach contracts.
Aaron Dunn, Alex Triantafelis, Wallis Nader
Lina Hidalgo and Kim Ogg have publicly feuded earlier than.
Hidalgo lashed out at District Lawyer Kim Ogg at a information convention final yr after she accused her of threatening her re-election with doable indictments.
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The DA has an agenda, and that agenda just isn’t justice however politics. This isn’t the primary time she has pursued a political vendetta underneath the guise of a prison investigation. pic.twitter.com/KBJOvbVfh2
— Lina Hidalgo (@LinaHidalgoTX) May 17, 2022
Final summer time, Lina Hidalgo checked right into a medical melancholy therapy facility.
