The Texas Ranger two-step
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Fort Bend County Special Prosecutors were finally forced to turn over the file of their investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing in the Highway 6 Landfill deal.
It confirmed that John Healey’s office investigation was a joke. Not one public official was even called to testify to the grand jury.
But what was missing from the files raises even more questions, and it is time for an outside law enforcement agency to find out why.
Sadly, that can’t be the Texas Rangers.
Two Texas Rangers were assigned to help the Fort Bend Special Prosecutors conduct the landfill probe. I was always curious why they never interviewed Dolcefino Consulting, since our company filed the criminal complaint which triggered the probe. I was more interested in seeing their final investigative report, and also curious about the testimony one of the Rangers gave the Waller County Grand jury before the case was closed.
Turns out the grand jury testimony is missing from the file. Was it ever transcribed? Was it lost? Or was this part of the whitewash?
Waller County District Attorney told Dolcefino Consulting he never saw a report on the Rangers Investigation, and suggested the Ranger testified before he even finished his investigation.
It has been a year since Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis has been given the authority to conduct a new review. He hasn’t. Waller County voters deserve more.
In mid-January, Dolcefino Consulting followed the trail Mathis hasn’t. We filed a request with the Texas Department of Public Safety for the records detailing their landfill investigation.
No, we don’t expect a bombshell. We just wanted to see if the missing reports actually existed and we wanted to see when the reports were dated. That will tell us if prosecutors closed their case before the Rangers had even finished their work.
After nearly a month, the Texas Rangers confirmed they had written reports. Yet, the Texas Department of Public Safety now claims it will take two whole months to get them ready for public release. Let’s call it the Texas Ranger two-step.
That is unacceptable. The Texas Rangers in the landfill case are also the same ones under fire in the Sandra Bland investigation, and their reports are among the things under scrutiny by critics.
After a month, the Texas Department of Public Safety is stalling, and the public deserves to know why. In a letter to the Texas Attorney General and Travis County District Attorney Dolcefino Consulting requests an investigation.
We have been exposing the anatomy of a whitewash. Maybe the Waller County District Attorney won’t hold people accountable, but we will.
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