Years after Rick Perry defunded the Public Integrity Unit, Texas may revive part of it

Editor’s note: This story was updated March 31 to include comments from Don Clemmer with the Travis County District Attorney’s office.

A lot has happened since 2013, when then-Gov. Rick Perry followed through on a threat to veto $7.5 million in funding for the state’s Public Integrity Unit, which investigated public corruption and was housed in the Travis County District Attorney’s office.

Perry was indicted on charges he abused his office, and he ran a failed campaign for president before a court dismissed that indictment. Now he’s U.S. energy secretary. And Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney whose drunk driving arrest spurred the veto threat, has a successor: Margaret Moore, a fellow Democrat.

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