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Perry: Top official resigning over no-bid contract

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The widening fallout over $110 million in no-bid state contracts awarded to an Austin tech company forced the resignation of a second top state official Friday, this time at the request of Republican Gov. Rick Perry, as criminal prosecutors prepare for a likely investigation into the taxpayer-funded deal. Texas Health and Human Services Commission Inspector General Doug Wilson submitted his resignation after the governor expressed a loss of confidence, Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said. The escalating response has begun to recall the unraveling of the Texas' $3 billion cancer-fighting agency two years ago, when a lucrative award to a private company was found to have skipped necessary scrutiny, setting off resignations and freezing operations at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Gregg Cox, an assistant district attorney in Travis County who heads the state's Public Integrity Unit, said Thursday he expected his office to soon begin an investigation into how 21CT landed the contracts.

 

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