Texas Scorecard by Charles Blain April 25, 2024
Outgoing Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said that she felt the Attorney General’s office would be the best agency to prosecute the cases.In a joint press conference, outgoing Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced that the Texas Attorney General’s Office would be “assuming jurisdiction” over the public corruption cases of three staff members to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo.
The news was made official a week after former Harris County prosecutor Lauren Byrne posted the rumor on X saying, “Apparently [Kim Ogg] is in talks with [Attorney General Ken Paxton] Office re: stepping in to prosecute the former staffers of Lina Hidalgo that are pending in Harris County. No firm agreement or parameters yet.”
“Unfortunately locally elected prosecutors like myself face enormous challenges … because political retaliation is very real,” Ogg said. “The Office of Attorney General has sufficient resources to properly prosecute cases of this magnitude and importance to the public.”
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