Special prosecutors or special stone wallers?
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The Waller County District Attorney has tried to conduct a new criminal investigation into the controversial Highway 6 landfill, but he has been stonewalled. Tonight, we know why and you will never believe who is trying to stop the whole truth from coming out.
It is the special prosecutors from Fort Bend County who were first assigned to probe the smelly landfill deal.
Earlier this year, Elton Mathis asked for their investigative file on the landfill case. On April 28, 2015 the special prosecutors wrote back, ”Your request for our file is denied”. Not very neighborly, although they did send best wishes along with their rejection.
The letter obtained by Dolcefino Consulting states the Fort Bend special prosecutors have “exclusive jurisdiction as to criminal matters related to the landfill matters”. In other words, Waller DA butt out.
The Special Prosecutors were appointed by Waller County Judge Buddy McCaig. Their investigation ended without a single Waller County official being called before the grand jury. Of course, the makeup of the grand jury was under fire too. It included the wife of a county commissioner, a neighbor to another commissioner, and a Mayor of Pattison.
Judge Mccaig later recused himself in the civil trial challenged the Waller County Commissioners landfill votes. The Judge didn’t say why, but it came right after he criticized the Dolcefino Consulting investigation that exposed secret communications between commissioners and the landfill bosses. Even after the recusal, Judge McCaig retained control over the special prosecutors.
Mathis told the special prosecutors that a civil jury in Waller County found law violations which needed investigations and prosecutions. The deposition testimony of former County Commissioners raised questions.
“Waller County voters have turned the page on good ole’ boy politics, but apparently there are some folks in Fort Bend County who still like that old book”, says Wayne Dolcefino, President of Dolcefino Consulting. “The special prosecutors did tell Mathis if he had new evidence of criminal activity to tell them what it was. Of course, they would already know what it was if they read the paper.
“It was clear to me a long time ago that those special prosecutors had no interest in doing the right thing, but blocking a prosecutor from doing his job is something entirely different.”
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