Hidalgo’s staffers were indicted on felony charges related to how they allegedly helped award an $11 million contract to a political consulting firm headed by a Democratic strategist.
, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said she will hand the criminal case into Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s former staffers over to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office — in a bid to keep the case alive after she leaves office at the end of the year.
“It is the same type of conflict of interest that undermines the public's confidence in our justice system,” Ogg said. “We cannot have one set of rules for the politically powerful and another set of rules for the powerless.” Ogg’s move places the case in the hands of Republican state officials who have sought often to undercut Harris County’s authority during Hidalgo’s tenure as the county morphed into a Democratic stronghold.
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