Gregg Cox, the Travis County prosecutor who oversees the embattled Public Integrity Unit, on Monday rejected a request from the Department of Public Safety to re-open an investigation into controversial border security contracts, telling Director Steve McCraw the unit does not have “sufficient staff or resources to accommodate your request at this time.”
On Friday, McCraw sent a sharply-worded letter to Cox, accusing him of turning more than $20 million in no-bid contracts with Abrams Learning and Information Systems into a “cause celeb” (sic) and offering to find ways to pay for an investigation. McCraw said the agency had been “much maligned” by “inaccurate reporting” and urged “a resolution to this matter once and for all.”
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