Prosecutors accuse an indicted Harris County staffer of violating bond conditions related to a misuse of official information and tampering with a government record case.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- Prosecutors allege Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo's chief of staff violated bond conditions when he voted to approve the scope of work for a $48 million childcare-related project.
The next day, he"represented the Office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on the American Rescue Plan Act Steering Committee Teams meeting, and voted to approve the procurement guidelines and scope of work for the Child Care Capacity: Contracted Slots RFP." In its motion to report bail condition violations to the court, prosecutors are urging the judge"to determine whether the current bond conditions are sufficient."
Prosecutors allege the three staffers communicated with Elevate Strategies' Founder Felicity Pereyra in January 2021, and allowed her to review and revise the project's scope of work nearly a month before a bid for proposals was publicly available. She won the nearly $11 million contract but it was later canceled amid the controversy.
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