The charges against former Harris County Public Health executive Barbie Robinson, originally brought by former District Attorney Kim Ogg, have been dropped by newly elected District Attorney Sean Teare, who defeated Ogg in a primary last year.
Robinson had been charged with multiple corruption-related felonies, including misuse of official information, a third-degree felony; tampering with a governmental record, a second-degree felony; and two counts of fraudulent securing of document execution, a first-degree felony.
The charges followed an investigation into county contracts that were awarded to IBM and DEMA Management and Consulting, with which former DA Kim Ogg says Robinson had a prior relationship when she worked in Sonoma County, California.
Teare claims that the state doesn’t have enough evidence to prove any of the charges in the case.