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TX - Indicted officials cost taxpayers $137,000

View the article here 02/17/2009 BY DAVID TEWES Armstrong points finger at DA; Tyler says the mayor is 'blathering' Victoria's taxpayers have spent about $137,000 so far for the legal defense of indicted city officials. That's money Mayor Will Armstrong, one of the four people indicted, said could have been spent on something more useful. "It is regrettable that this large sum of money had to be spent this way rather than our using it to improve a neighborhood or provide better law enforcement services to the citizens of Victoria," he said. Steve Tyler, the criminal district attorney, said Armstrong's comments are hardly worth getting excited about. The mayor is probably inappropriately using the city council as a political forum, he said...continue to full post

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