A Texas senator on Wednesday requested that the embattled Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s office re-open its investigation into $20 million in no-bid border security contracts awarded by the Department of Public Safety to the private defense firm Abrams Learning and Information Systems (ALIS) between 2006 and 2010.
The unit, which investigates cases of public corruption, ended its probe of the contracts in 2013, when then-Gov. Rick Perry vetoed funding for the unit after Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg refused to step down following a drunk driving conviction, according to prosecutor Gregg Cox, who heads the section that oversees the unit. Perry was later indicted on abuse of power charges related to a threat to veto the unit’s funds.
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