Jack Stick, a former state official at the center of a contracting scandal at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, on Friday received a sentence of six days in jail and 90 days without a driver’s license for a … Read More
Former Texas health commission lawyer Jack Stick, found guilty Monday of driving while intoxicated, will be sentenced within the next two weeks, but no final date has been set, Travis County court officials said Tuesday. The former state representative and … Read More
UPDATE: Stick has been sentenced to six days in jail. The man who famously carried a toy stuffed wolf into informal resolution meetings with Medicaid providers and quipped that he could “find a program violation on Jesus Christ” if Jesus … Read More
A Travis County jury on Monday convicted former state representative and Texas Health and Human Services general counsel Jack Stick of drunken driving, the latest chapter in year of problems for the former prosecutor and state lawmaker. Stick, 49, was … Read More
More than three years after he was originally arrested, Jack Stick, a former state representative and previous inspector general for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, went on trial Friday for a drunk-driving charge he has fiercely contested in … Read More
AUSTIN — Nearly three years after police pulled over a then-powerful Texas state official on suspicion of drunk driving, prosecutors are finally getting a chance to prove their case. Source: Controversial former state official’s drunk driving trial begins
Before Jack Stick resigned as chief counsel for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission amid one of the biggest political scandals in 2014, the former state representative was fighting a charge in Travis County court for driving while intoxicated. … Read More
For the record, the DWI trial that was scheduled on July 30 for former Health and Human Services Commission chief counsel and former deputy inspector general for enforcement Jack Stick has again been delayed until September 17. Stick’s original arrest … Read More
Today, former Texas Health and Human Services chief counsel and former OIG deputy inspector general for enforcement Jack Stick was scheduled to be tried before a jury on his September 2012 charge for DWI. Once again, the trial has been … Read More
AUSTIN — The drunken-driving trial of a former Texas health commission lawyer has been rescheduled for April, once again delaying a high-stakes and hotly anticipated test for a man who recently became infamous as part of a state contracting scandal. … Read More
A former aide to Jack Stick, hired by Stick when he was the OIG deputy inspector general for enforcement, has now been demoted and seen his salary cut, according to a late breaking story in the Austin American Statesman. The Texas Tribune has … Read More
It is now official – Jack Stick, HHSC Chief Counsel and former OIG deputy inspector general for enforcement, has resigned from HHSC over published allegations of interference in the HHSC contracting process on two contracts – one for data mining software … Read More
Almost two and a half years after his arrest for DWI, the date for a trial by jury has been set for Jack Stick, HHSC Chief Counsel and former OIG deputy inspector general for enforcement. The trial is now set … Read More
The Statesman reports today that HHSC’s chief counsel Jack Stick, former OIG director for enforcement, who steered business to an Austin software firm for OIG Medicaid fraud detection data mining software, has for years had close connections to the firm’s … Read More
AUSTIN — When Gov. Rick Perry tried to force a district attorney from office for drunken driving, he cited outrage at her behavior and a loss of confidence in her ability to do the job.But on his own staff, Perry … Read More
No news is no news. Per the online case search at the website of the Travis County Clerk, Jack Stick has another hearing date on his DWI – December 9th.
After two years, the Chief Counsel of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and former director for enforcement of the Office of Inspector General Jack Stick had a day in court on his DWI on Thursday. Judge to rule on … Read More
Jack Stick could find out this month whether he will stand trial on a two-year-old drunk driving arrest. After a Thursday pretrial hearing, County Court-at-Law Judge Nancy Hohengarten said she will rule before an Oct. 21 hearing whether to admit … Read More
AUSTIN — A top state official is stopped for drunken driving and refuses breath and blood tests. Police cite erratic driving and uncooperative behavior, and critics say the official is unfit to serve in public office. This is not the … Read More
The following article was published today in the Texas Tribune, authored by Christine Ayala and Jay Root. UPDATE: The same article was republished in the New York Times with the title “A Texas Official’s D.W.I. Case Is Being Seen in … Read More
A quick search of the Travis Country Criminal Court docket shows that Jack Stick’s DWI was not dispensed with yesterday. Stick, the new Chief Counsel for the Texas Health and Human Rights Commission, has a new hearing set for October 2nd. His … Read More
Rick Perry is defending his attempt to coerce Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg out of office—an attempt which resulted in not one, but two indictment charges—by claiming that he was taking a stance against her drunk driving conviction. However, … Read More
Gov. Rick Perry today made the following statement regarding the decision by the Travis County Grand Jury: “As governor, I took an oath to faithfully uphold the constitution of Texas, a pledge that I have kept every day as I’ve … Read More
Jack Stick’s DWI hearing is being delayed once again. Now until August 28th. This is almost two years since his arrest in Austin back in September, 2012. The Travis County Criminal Courts docket search entry can be found here.
Jack Stick’s DWI hearing has again been delayed. It is now July 18th.
The probable next Chief Legal Counsel for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Jack Stick has had his DWI hearing again delayed, now to May 12th. The original arrest date was September 2012. Per the Travis County Criminal Court … Read More
The Travis County Clerk’s Office has recently put its court records online. In the public interest, we are publishing here the record of Jack Stick’s DWI case. The following are the meanings of the prefixes used in the entries. Event … Read More
For the record, the next DWI hearing for Jack Stick is set for April 7th.
January 27th, 2014, was the latest scheduled pre-trial hearing date for Jack Stick’s DWI case. Stick is the Deputy Inspector General for Enforcement for Texas HHSC-OIG who was arrested for DWI way back in September 2012. A docket search done … Read More
An online docket search of the Travis County Criminal Courts shows that the pre-trial conference hearing for Jack Stick, Deputy Inspector General of Texas HHSC-OIG, on his charge of DWI has been scheduled for January 27th, 2014.
Because of a recent attempt to have YouTube remove a TDMR-produced video about the September 2012 DWI arrest of Jack Stick, a former Texas state Rep, municipal court judge and currently Texas HHSC-OIG’s Deputy Inspector General for Enforcement, TDMR committed … Read More
TDMR believes that personal attacks on individuals are unwarranted and attempts to steer a high road in dealing with Medicaid issues. But TDMR also believes that the conduct of public officials, especially those in the employ of the Texas government … Read More
HHSC Deputy Inspector General for Enforcement Jack Stick was arrested back in September 2012 for DWI while driving in downtown Austin. The full story on the arrest is on our website. A casual check of the online docket of the … Read More
There is very little commentary on the TDMR website in relation to the DWI arrest last September of Jack Stick, former State Rep and Bee Cave judge who is the Deputy Inspector General for Enforcement for HHSC-OIG. As his case … Read More
