Attorney for indicted county staffer claims Harris County DA acted after county commissioners didn't meet request to 'vastly expand the District Attorney's budget.'
HOUSTON, Texas -- Lawyers for Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo's indicted Chief of Staff Alex Triantaphyllis want District Attorney Kim Ogg off the criminal case.
In a Motion to Disqualify, lawyers Marla Poirot and Dan Cogdell told the judge in the case,"Ogg opened a grand jury investigation into Judge Hidalgo and her staff merely because the Commissioners Court decided to allocate funds to programs and priorities other than the District Attorney's Office." "Despite claiming to be a Democrat, Ogg has aligned herself with her former Republican colleagues in retaliation against Judge Hidalgo. Ogg's unprofessional conduct violates a slew of prosecutorial ethical rules and norms, and wastes taxpayers' funds in the process," according to the filing.
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