Texas Organizing Project Accused of Quid Pro Quo to Help Favorable Bexar County Officials
A bail reform group bonding out hundreds of criminal defendants from the Bexar County jail, then paying some of them to do campaign work for candidates, including the district attorney whose office is prosecuting them. Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila obtained a recorded phone call that may show a conflict in the hard-fought race for D.A. On the recording you hear two representatives of a group called Texas Organizing Project, or TOP, talking to a man they think is an inmate they recently bailed out and asking him to do door-to-door canvassing for $20 an hour. Earlier this year we showed you how TOP receives cooperation from Bexar County in bailing out hundreds of inmates from the jail. The bail reform group claims they are low level offenders, but our reports showed they've put repeat offenders with violent histories back on the street. On the recorded phone call, Laquita Garcia, Statewide Policy Coordinator with TOP, and another staffer named Greg Williams, are talking to a man they ...