Three of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo's former staffers are accused of helping a vendor get an $11 million COVID vaccine outreach contract.
The investigation is into how Elevated Strategies landed an $11 million COVID vaccine outreach contract. Three former Hidalgo staffers have been charged in the case.The press conference is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. You can stream the press conference in the player above, on the KHOU 11 app, the KHOU 11 YouTube channel, and on KHOU 11+ on Roku, FireTV, and Apple TV.
The staffers reportedly began communicating with Elevate Strategies CEO Felicity Pereyra about the vaccine community outreach in January 2021, a month before a request for proposal on the subject became public, the search warrant said. The investigation into the staffers' involvement in the contract started unraveling in March 2022 when the Texas Rangers and the DA’s OfficeThe warrants reference deleted WhatsApp messages between key staff members in Hidalgo's office as well as other electronic records from Google and Verizon Wireless.
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