WATCH: Embattled Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo Lashes Out at Democrat DA Kim Ogg Following New Evidence of Tampering – Kim Ogg Responds! | The Gateway Pundit

DA Kim Ogg (L), Lina Hidalgo

Embattled Harris County Decide Lina Hidalgo lashed out at Democrat District Legal professional Kim Ogg after the Texas Rangers opened a brand new tampering investigation into Hidalgo’s $11 million no-bid ‘vaccine outreach’ contract.

Texas Rangers opened a new tampering investigation into far-left Harris County Decide Lina Hidalgo’s $11 million no-bid vaccine contract final week.

Hidalgo’s workplace is embroiled in a bid-rigging scandal.

Lina Hidalgo’s top three staffers were indicted in April 2022 after prosecutors expanded the investigation into an $11 million ‘vaccine outreach contract’ awarded to one of many decide’s political cronies.

Whereas Hidalgo was threatening to jail and effective individuals for violating her Covid guidelines, she was secretly making an attempt to award considered one of her political cronies, Felicity Pereyra, who based Elevate Methods, an $11 million ‘vaccine outreach’ contract.

Hidalgo in the end panicked and canceled the $11 million vaccine contract after questions have been raised that it was with a one-person agency with no expertise.

Hidalgo’s Chief of Workers Alex Triantaphyllis and Coverage Director Wallis Nader together with co-defendant Aaron Dunn have been charged with misuse of official info and tampering with authorities paperwork in reference to the canceled vaccine outreach contract.

Decide Lina Hidalgo with indicted Chief of Workers Alex Triantaphyllis

In keeping with Click2Houston, Texas Rangers, the identical company that originally performed a raid of Hidalgo’s workplace, opened a brand new public corruption investigation after Hidalgo “hid” information subpoenaed in a grand jury’s probe of the decide’s $11 million no-bid contract.

The search warrants have been unsealed on Thursday in accordance with the outlet.

The outlet reported that one of many Texas Rangers wrote within the search warrant that “it was found that quite a few paperwork and communications that have been ordered to be produced by Grand Jury subpoena had been hid and made unavailable through the earlier Grand Jury proceedings.”

Lina Hidalgo accused Kim Ogg of soiled politics and known as her a bully throughout a information convention.

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Kim Ogg responded to Lina Hidalgo in a statement:

“County Decide Hidalgo’s outburst right now was nothing greater than an tried deflection from the details and proof that led to the preliminary indictment of her staffers. She conflated an ongoing Texas Rangers felony investigation along with her political endorsement of my challenger and engaged in a infantile train in name-calling that has turn out to be all too frequent in our political course of. Utilizing her standing as county decide to launch this diatribe is an unlucky try to taint the investigative course of and to confuse the general public. It additionally serves her indicted staffers very poorly. My workplace pursues evidence-based prosecutions, no matter political occasion, and we look ahead to resolving this case in courtroom.”

Final yr Lina Hidalgo and Kim Ogg acquired right into a public feud.

Hidalgo trashed DA Kim Ogg in a press convention final yr after she accused her of threatening her reelection by floating a doable indictment.

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The DA has an agenda, and that agenda shouldn’t be justice–it’s political. This isn’t the primary time she pursues a political vendetta below the guise of a felony investigation. pic.twitter.com/KBJOvbVfh2

— Lina Hidalgo (@LinaHidalgoTX) May 17, 2022

Kim Ogg responded to Lina Hidalgo’s smear marketing campaign and warned her to maintain her mouth shut in regards to the ongoing investigation.