Alvarado now the subject of criminal inquiry
After several weeks of (misleading) assurances from Mayor White and Carol Alvarado's PR people that Alvarado was not the subject of the investigation by OIG, it turns out that Alvarado is being investigated by the District Attorney's office. KPRC-2 reports:
Houston City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Harris County District Attorney's Office, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.The district attorney's office is investigating an allegation of criminal wrongdoing by the former mayor pro tem.
District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal told KPRC Local 2 that there are questions about whether Alvarado asked her employees to perform tasks unrelated to city business. The exact nature of the jobs was not disclosed, but it could be illegal if the tasks were carried out while the employees were on the clock for the city.
Rosenthal's office would be expected to investigate Alvarado to some extent simply as a matter of due diligence, so this wouldn't be particularly newsworthy save for the fact that Mayor White and Alvarado's PR team went out of their way to trumpet the fact Alvarado was not a subject of the earlier OIG investigation.
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Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/22/06 10:25 PM | Print |
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