When lawyers for two employees of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo return to court, they will have to prove that the jobs of the indicted staffers are vital to county government and that no one else can assume their responsibilities.
e to enforce broad bond conditions. Prosecutors want the two employees to have no part in the planning or implementing of county contracts following a grand jury indictment on felony charges of tampering and misuse of official information.
to Elevate Strategies by giving its owner early access to bidding materials. Elevate Strategies, whose owner has Democratic ties, won the contract over the University of Texas Health Science Center, despite lacking prior public health experience and a more expensive proposal.Hidalgo defends aides indicted in vaccine contract probe, saying she won’t ‘cave to bullying’
Judge Hazel Jones talks to a prosecutor, left, and two defense attorneys for Wallis Nader during a hearing about Nader’s bond conditions in the 174th District Court on Monday, July 18, 2022, at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse at 1201 Franklin St. in Houston. Nader and two other Harris County aides are charged with steering a controversial COVID-19 vaccine contract to firm operated by a politically-connected vendor.
David Adler, a defense attorney, talks to his client Wallis Nader after a hearing about bond conditions in the 174th District Court on Monday, July 18, 2022, at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse at 1201 Franklin St. in Houston. She and two other Harris County aides are charged with steering a controversial COVID-19 vaccine contract to firm operated by a politically-connected vendor.
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