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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:02 AM Jan 2015

Erica Stick is third top Texas health official to resign amid scandal

Erica Stick, chief of staff of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, resigned Thursday, the third top official at the sprawling agency to step down as state and federal investigators look into a no-bid, Medicaid anti-fraud contract canceled last month.

Stick is the wife of Jack Stick, the former chief counsel at the agency who resigned a month ago, after the American-Statesman revealed he skirted state procurement laws to broker multimillion-dollar deals with Austin tech firm 21CT.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/erica-stick-is-third-top-texas-health-official-to-/njpwF/ (subscription required).

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Erica Stick is third top Texas health official to resign amid scandal (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2015 OP
It's just the tip of the iceberg. hobbit709 Jan 2015 #1
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